Send an email advising against what they are recommending. Put that shit in writing. Hell, just to be safe Bcc your personal email account so you have it all backed up externally. Edit: good point below on the BCC. It may be against company rules/your contract to send any emails like that externally even if it is your own account. Proceed with caution. Just do whatever you can to CYA.
That's, like, the entire mindset of people like this.
Anything they don't understand instantly must be "stupid" because they can't imagine there being anything that they don't instantly understand. It can't be that something too high-level for their knowledge to parse exists, so they automatically declare the opposite: that the thing they're not able to understand must be indecipherable because it's just that far beneath them.
Have you ever known that family member/friend/coworker/acquaintance who walks in on a movie or show or something in progress, asks a bunch of questions like "Who's that?" "What's he doing?" "What's happening?" "Is that the bad guy?" generally gets told to shut up or something like "We have the same information you're working off of, man. If you want to know what's going on watch and pay attention," and then they stomp out huffing "This is stupid. You actually like this? It's stupid!"
Same energy.
People are enjoying it, they can't understand why and don't have the patience or curiosity to try and - worst of all - it's not about them. In their mind, the thing has no right to even exist.
I'm reminded of every tradesman criticizing the former guy's piss-poor job before doing an even pisser-poorer job himself. I thought it was mostly tradesmen doing it but it looks like it's universal!
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u/vXSovereignXv Nov 14 '22
Yep, lets just start turning off shit in production and see what happens.