Telling people who know what they are doing how to do their job often results in bad things happening. Malicious compliance is a thing. Archive: https://archive.today/UuRZf From the post: >>Techies are often beset by undeserving and despicable dolts who demand daunting feats of tech support. Which is why each Friday The Register brings you a fresh instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of defeating those dunderheads. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Norman" who is an electrical engineer by trade and during one phase of his career found himself doing a lot of office refit jobs, most of them in the financial district of the City of London.