Upper Management Gets Laptop Stolen, Doesn't Understand How That's A Security Risk

Eric Lund

Dec 10, 2021 10:00 PM EST

IT professionals have to deal with some nightmarish technological gore, but at the heart of all of these problems are people who don't even want to understand even the simplest things about using technology. They get calls from people who don't know not to dunk their laptops in the toilet. From people who don't know that their computer needs to be plugged in. From people who don't know not to give strangers their social security number in exchange for "winning" lottery numbers.

Here's another such person: Redditor u/FiftyShadesOfDone posted to r/talesfromtechsupport about an executive at their company who apparently had his company laptop and cell phone stolen and just didn't bother reporting it — even though, as he told OP on their phone call, he's a C-suite executive working on a major acquisition of a competitor and all that. The executive grew frustrated with OP for simply doing their job in trying to verify employee IDs and protecting the company's information rather than simply being a "yes man" and giving the careless executive a new computer.

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