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 Some of us will die before we can utter this phrase. You’re truly living the dream.

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@jerry how did it go?

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@jerry Well done!

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@jerry

#respect

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@jerry Had a manager who finally got fed up with another manager who kept talking while saying nothing. He interrupted them and said, "Have you lost your mind. Do you need to go out into the hallway and look for it."

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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.

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@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.