This is a shitpost? This boss is my spirit animal.

GPIB users and instrumentation automating folks know the problem is very modern.

His name was Terry Davis.

You mean you wouldn’t expect a software engineer to understand the coefficient of thermal expansion of tungsten carbide in a gas lubricated piston/cylinder pneumatic deadweight calibration system?

Yeah, me either. But I would expect one to know how to research the documentation to find out what it meant.