I just had an opportunity to use the phrase "I admire your ability to reach that level of confidence without the inconvenience of competence" at work

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@jerry @Guillotine_Jones Key prerequisite for upper management.

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@jerry wait you have a day job again? Or were you talking to your critters?

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@jerry
“Oh, Benson. *Dear* Benson. You are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence.”
— Evil (David Warner), *Time Bandits* (Terry Gilliam, 1981)

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@ajn142 sadly I had to go back to work

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@jerry

Wait … you work at the White House?

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@jerry "I can see how that made sense to you. "

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@jerry

But, you didn't pull the trigger.

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@jerry

My best memory of a phrase I used in a professional context was

"How dare you."

This dumb, sketchy lawyer I had to work with asked a question implying that I had a conflict of interest. I came unglued. It felt good and righteous.

[Gast]

@jerry Thanks man. But if you keep trying, you'll never get to where I am

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@jerry wins. Fatality.