Hey #IT friends! I want to hear the dumbest things you have ever heard said in a professional setting!
I've got two to get this party started.
The first was at my first MSP job (A job I will never do again), I was trying to create a more streamlined deployment for Fortigate firewalls (yes, eww). When I explained the idea to my boss Casey, he responded with, "Well, that sounds nice, but we have a healthy mistrust of automation here."
WTF? You work in IT and don't trust automation?! You should consider a new line of work.
The second was when I met the imfamous Chris at $weCantSellFiber, literally my first day on the job. Those who have followed me for some time know much about Chris. While discussing VLANs and Q-in-Q, he uttered something so incredibly stupid, that it set my impression of him from that day forward. He said, "Well, Q-in-Q doesn't always need an S-tag and a C-tag. It can use two C-tags or two S-tags."
My impression of Chris deteriorated over the next year or so. Then he got fired.
So, who has some true dumbassery to add?
The Psychotic Network Ferret
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