It was a while ago, but I worked for a place that was writing software for boxes that could be used to collect telephone toll data from old bar switches in an E

It was a while ago, but I worked for a place that was writing software for boxes that could be used to collect telephone toll data from old bar switches in an Eastern European country. The sales manager thought it would sell better if it was on Windows 95. I suggested to him that they could at least use NT so you could lock down access better. His response was: "Oh, I told them that now their staff can use Windows 95 whenever they want." #facepalm Another bright idea was that rather than just collect the information and forward it to a central hub (the ultimate destination), the data would be transferred according to the organizational structure... first area level, then regional, etc. The culture at this shop was like this... sales spec'd the software and there was no push-back allowed from the technical staff. Fortunately, I didn't work on that project.