I had to explain to a customer's head of IT what a public IP is! He is (still) convinced all addresses in the world have to start with 192.168...

How do people like this get/keep their jobs?!

Noooooooooooo what???

Head of IT???

By being friends/family of the owner.

Tell him to connect to "his" PC by using that "IP".

What a weirdo, everyone knows it's 127.0.0.1...

And there's only 65536 computers can have internet access.

I guess they started years ago and nobody else at the company knows what they're actually doing.

Life was not fare in the past, and will not be in the future, why are you surprised about unfair life in the present?

I was once sent a sensitive financial database on a usb drive in the post.

Their DBA didn’t trust sending it online, so decided to use an encrypted thumb drive.

Didn’t see the problem with writing the password on a sticky note and putting that in the envelope too.

Also the same guy / team that told me my sql script didn’t work because it said “table already exists” - the idiot had pasted the script twice.

This guy worked for one of the largest petrochem firms in existence... just let that sink in.

We also had a guy schmooze his way into the team.

No real screening done because he had a doctorate in mathematics and taught compsci at a university.

We had to show him how to get his keyboard working.

6 months and tens of thousands later I had to redo everything in a matter of weeks.