Years ago I made a post that IT people get treated like garbage, and some people agreed with it (on social media).
Now I can explain why that is. It’s because IT people, while they, especially computer programmers, do in fact have good stem skills, they’re not shot callers. They’re low on the totem poll.
And when you’re low on the totem poll but you’re also skilled, people up on the totem poll don’t like that. You’re an easy target to kick around, and there might be some jealousy too.