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The key to any successful company is synergy. For many corporations, their operation is divided into two main tasks:
* Create the Product
* Sell the Product

The conflict arises when the two halves have to work together. Marketeers view engineers as socially inept nerds. Engineers view marketeers as technologically ignorant charlatans. But somehow, the products have to be made for the customer, and the two factions have to work through their grievances. Heaven help you if you get the [[Pointy-Haired Boss|big wigs]] involved.

This is not to say one segment is more vital than the other. [[Truth in Television]] that many companies have gone under because they had great products but couldn't find the right customers, or oversold a shoddy product.

Of course, everyone hates [[Acceptable Targets|Management]].

See also [[Slobs Versus Snobs]] for cultural conflicts. 

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== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' pits the Board of the clacks company against the lone engineer left, Mr. Pony. The Board wins the battles but Mr. Pony gets the reader's sympathy, as he's actually trying to make the clacks work with a minimum of bloodshed, while the Board is only interested in squeezing it for as much money as it's worth.

== [[Newspaper Comics]]  ==
* [[Dilbert]], the [[Trope Codifier]], illustrates the eternal conflict between the dorky and misanthropic Engineers against the technologically illiterate Marketeers. 

== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKnF26qFFM The Great Office War]

== [[Real Life]] ==
* A large number of companies in the [[wikipedia:Dot-com bubble|Dot-Com Bubble]] had accrued massive amounts of investment capital without solid products to rely on.

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