The Attitude Failure of an R&D Shop

So sometimes you overhear things. Sometimes you don't have to try to overhear things. And even sometimes these things are presented to you on a silver platter with a marching band.

This is one of those times as shared by a friend who works somewhere.

So an R&D group is managed from out of town. So there are regular visitors from out of town to see what is happening in that outpost of R&D. These visitors attend meetings and (fanfare) ask questions.

When one of those visitors leave the room a local senior/lead developer states (or rather it falls out of their mouth) for the benefit of the remainder of the local people in the room:

I don't like these visitors showing up, attending meetings, and asking questions when they don't know what's going on.

So there are few points I would like to address regarding this kinds of statement:

1. You do not own the product that you are working on. They do. Get use to questions from them. Or leave.
2. These people sign your paycheque. Get use to answering questions from them. Or leave.
3. You work for R&D. It's not the other way around. Get use to it. Or leave.
4. Perhaps, since they lead R&D,they need to  ask questions so they know what is going on. Get use to it. Or leave.
5. The reason they are asking questions is because you are not communicating with them. So perhaps you need to communicate so they do know "what is going on"? Suck it up buttercup.
6. Perhaps you are so confused and scattered that you yourself do not know what is going on.

Fundamentally this shows an R&D team with a very poor attitude. The question is not who I would fire first but when I would stop.