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Tell a fish success is measured by climbing a tree, and he will spend his whole life thinking he's a failure.

What skills, attitudes, personality traits have you seen mismatched to a certain job that later made the individual an awesome worker in another job?

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[–] winterayars 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Paranoia (to a healthy degree) is good for information security professionals but drives literally everyone else crazy. I wish people would adopt more of that, though. Maybe we'd see fewer data breaches...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The CEO of my company decided to send a holiday E-Card to everyone right before Christmas. I reported it as a phishing attempt and IT just laughed and said it was fine. Apparently I'm the only one that reported it and just... What? An email from outside our organization that claims to be from the CEO and contains a non-descript link to an unknown website? And I'm the only one that saw red flags from that?!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I'm sorry. I agree with you that your take is valid. I once had to explain to the assistant to the CFO why it was a bad idea to whitelist a gambling website ("they're doing a fun play for the world Cup that uses points instead of real money'") for the team handling customer card payments...and even then she still wanted it done until I told her she had to officially sign a release accepting responsibility for negative outcomes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

IT probably just laughed at the absurdity. C suite does whatever it wants and IT just has to deal with the fallout.