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?
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?