Here at the place where I work, we use an application for deploying software packages. This app requires a password that is not associated with Windows - it's a "proprietary" password. Anyway, to push a package, you use this pw to log in to the app, select the computers to install to, select the package to push, click the "here" link, and it asks for your "private key." This is odd, and somewhat cumbersome, but it is what it is - anyhow, the private key is the password you use to log in. Clear enough, right?
Wrong! A certain engineer, who may sit next to me, and who has built (in his/her own words) 23 servers, asked me yesterday, "what is the private key?" HE'S BUILT 23 SERVERS!!! How did you install the support software, stupid? But, wait, it gets better - he mentioned that he had just asked a certain manager of mine the same question, and he suggested putting product codes into that field! This is a product we MUST use on every server to ensure it's compliance, uptime, and functionality, yet, half of my department (note: all compensated substantially more than me) didn't know how to use it.
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It is always the morons who get paid the most, while the rest of us keep their asses afloat!
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