There are some people who really infuriate you. Like this one who makes you almost want to bash her face in. She talks like she knows it all and she won’t hear of anything you say. In fact, she’s insultingly dismissive when you try to talk to her.
But I did get to talk to her and it was surreal. She knows that a RAID server is about striping (all except RAID 1) and mirroring (RAID 1) but how could she think that RAID has something to do with her PC’s disk being mirrored to the RAID server? I tried to interrupt her and tell her that she was misinformed. Tried to tell her how it actually works. But she won’t have any of it. She even told me I wasn’t talking like an IT person. WTF?
And then she goes on about RAID being generally slower than non-RAID disks and that she shouldn’t be using it because it will slow her work down. To set the record straight, RAID 0 is faster. The other RAID levels are indeed slower but that because it’s the price you pay for data integrity. And no, your work is not slowed down because of using a RAID drive for backing-up. Not even if you wait for your backing-up to finish before going back to work. Sorry, you can’t use that as an excuse.
And finally she goes “Now you’re surprised at my IT knowledge.” I was incredulous. Yes, I’m surprised alright. Surprised at how someone could possibly get it oh so wrong. I mean really, how could you? Talk about the difference between knowing and understanding. As if that’s not bad enough, she goes on “I don’t even have a master’s degree.” Where the heck did that come from?!?
I felt like I was talking to a crazed spinster. Oh wait a minute! I was!
And I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way. If someone told you in front of other managers: “I’m willing to work with you on this, the question is do you?” Wouldn’t you feel the same? You would, right?