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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?!

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  • 7
    Noooooooooooo what???

    Head of IT???
  • 10
    By being friends/family of the owner.
  • 1
    Tell him to connect to "his" PC by using that "IP".
  • 14
    What a weirdo, everyone knows it's 127.0.0.1...
  • 15
    And there's only 65536 computers can have internet access.
  • 2
    I guess they started years ago and nobody else at the company knows what they're actually doing.
  • 1
    Life was not fare in the past, and will not be in the future, why are you surprised about unfair life in the present?
  • 1
    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.
  • 1
    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.
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