I was going to use "irony" in this post, but since everyone always complains about misuse of that word (we're talking about you Alanis), I thought I would double-check the definition. It seemed suspiciously close to sarcasm, so I looked up the definition for it as well. Turns out sarcasm is "irony with the intent to cause pain." Huh. Who knew? So all those times I was being sarcastic w/ my friends, at least 50% of the time it was actually irony. What a crazy world. Anyway, back to the point of this post... (which apparently isn't ironic - glad I looked that up!)
Since this isn't "ironic", I guess it's in the category of stupidity... Why are companies so stupid? Seriously... Now that I'm a small business owner, these seem like obvious things not to do?
- Give your employees security awareness training about things like don't go to websites with invalid certificates and how to avoid running untrusted mobile code (like Java applets). Then, setup your company webmail with an invalid SSL certificate and include a Java applet with an invalid signature.
- Setup a multimillion dollar project to sell your client a document management system. But put all your internal project documentation on a file share, then email copies around to get edits, and have no internal document management practices or tools.
- Tell everyone you're in a cost cutting mode and that they need to share rental cars and try to reduce costs. But don't setup a telework arrangement even though you're spending $100k per month on travel for the team. And you have the equipment and expertise to setup a telework VPN with minimal effort or investment.
Got any other examples?
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