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A Boring Dystopia
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Client: I clicked every link that said "hot singles in your area" and all I got was every trojan known to man, plus some guy named "James" from Bangladesh remoted into my computer and stole all of my banking information, and now I'm destitute.
GSA: that is all completely my fault, sorry I didn't show up or message you for a sexy night. Please move in with me until you're back on my feet, as Best Buy says it's my fault that you're a complete moron.
wow that one actually made me nauseous.
Attaboy.
A different context, but I think this is actually a pretty good rule for software engineering. A number of times I was sure a problem was someone elses fault, only for them to find my own silly mistake that I was overlooking. Sometimes the opposite also happens to me. Now I really make sure and typically find the actual root cause of problems before I suggest someone else caused it.