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I’ve always heard two things about IT consultants — 1. they make tons of
money, and 2. they don’t know much. In short, I’ve always heard that as
often as not, they’re largely unqualified to be advising anyone on anything.

Well, now that I am one, I’ve been paying close attention to my
surroundings. I won’t go into what my overall impressions have been since
that’d be a few pages worth of text, but I will say that I have witnessed
firsthand the idiocy that so many have complained about.

I was at a client recently with a number of other consultants when one of my
more “challenged” colleagues piped in with this at the end of the meeting:

Silence. The whole room froze. I was speechless while I tried to find logic
in his statement. Panic set in once I realized what he meant to say.
After a few moments, one of the more brazen among the client representation
says,

The mouthbreather flashes a goofy smile and responds with,

I didn’t know whether to burst into laughter, cry, or start projectile
vomiting. I was so embarrassed I could barely do anything but stare at the
floor. So, yeah, I’ve seen the stupidity up close and personal.

On a side note, the guy in question is at least trying to better himself —
he came into the office today and declared that he’s interested in doing the
“Certified Ethnical Hacker” course. I almost asked him if that was some sort
of eugenics program, but I didn’t want to waste a joke of that quality.