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Except Corporations take it to a uniquely stupid level; things like refusing to pay adequately for internal support, security, auditing, i.e. anything that does

Except Corporations take it to a uniquely stupid level; things like refusing to pay adequately for internal support, security, auditing, i.e. anything that doesn't have a direct impact on customers.

microcolonel 9y ago
Who are you to say what is the right amount to pay for security? Do you know how much life insurance I should have?
- FussyZeus 9y ago
  Every year I need to have usually a 2 hour meeting with my superiors to argue for renewing our antivirus for our Windows infrastructure. Their constant argument every time is "we have no viruses, why do we spend money on this" and I have to tell them every single time "that you're paying for it is WHY we don't have viruses." They have no idea what viruses are, what malware is, what ransomware is and despite being hired to maintain infrastructure, I must continuously explain my decisions to people who do not maintain infrastructure and wouldn't know how with a gun to their head. This, to me, is stupid.
  - microcolonel 9y ago
    Fair enough, but at the end of the day you do convince them, which is why they pay for you. ;- )
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    Indeed. Unfortunately, this is the problem universal to everything infrastructural - people don't value it when it works.
  - JumpCrisscross 9y ago
    > They have no idea what viruses are, what malware is, what ransomware is and despite being hired to maintain infrastructure, I must continuously explain my decisions to people who do not maintain infrastructure and wouldn't know how with a gun to their head Nobody hires someone outside their domain of expertise and then leaves them to do whatever. Your constantly justifying your recommendations is, like it or not, a critical part of your job.
    - FussyZeus 9y ago
      I don't disagree in principle, but it would be nice if I could just do it once, instead of yearly, to the same people, with the same responses. Or at the least have it socially acceptable to script the conversation with a chat bot.

Except Corporations take it to a uniquely stupid level; things like refusing to pay adequately for internal support, security, auditing, i.e. anything that doesn't have a direct impact on customers.

microcolonel 9y ago

Who are you to say what is the right amount to pay for security? Do you know how much life insurance I should have?

FussyZeus 9y ago
Every year I need to have usually a 2 hour meeting with my superiors to argue for renewing our antivirus for our Windows infrastructure. Their constant argument every time is "we have no viruses, why do we spend money on this" and I have to tell them every single time "that you're paying for it is WHY we don't have viruses." They have no idea what viruses are, what malware is, what ransomware is and despite being hired to maintain infrastructure, I must continuously explain my decisions to people who do not maintain infrastructure and wouldn't know how with a gun to their head. This, to me, is stupid.
- microcolonel 9y ago
  Fair enough, but at the end of the day you do convince them, which is why they pay for you. ;- )
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Indeed. Unfortunately, this is the problem universal to everything infrastructural - people don't value it when it works.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago
  > They have no idea what viruses are, what malware is, what ransomware is and despite being hired to maintain infrastructure, I must continuously explain my decisions to people who do not maintain infrastructure and wouldn't know how with a gun to their head Nobody hires someone outside their domain of expertise and then leaves them to do whatever. Your constantly justifying your recommendations is, like it or not, a critical part of your job.
  - FussyZeus 9y ago
    I don't disagree in principle, but it would be nice if I could just do it once, instead of yearly, to the same people, with the same responses. Or at the least have it socially acceptable to script the conversation with a chat bot.