Back in the early 2000's I worked at a small company with a guy who said he knew everything.
Anyway: I had just started at this company (Probably within a day of starting) and I get a call from the Owner asking me to come in to his office and help him access his files which were incredibly slow to access. I sat down at his computer and open up the file share...... To find.. that the company was storing all the files (all 80,000 of them or some very stupidly large but still 'legal' for the time number) in the root folder of the server file store. I pointed out that this wasn't really the best way of doing things and if he stored them all in sub folders then the data would be easier to find and keep organized. He yelled at me saying that he didn't need me to tell him how to make things work (clearly he did) He had worked as a computer tech way back in the 60's and wasn't going to to take no lip from a new up and comer. He knew how servers worked and he didn't need to be told what how to do things. He added that putting them all in the one location made them really easy to find. Then he yelled at me more and asked why the new server they had just brought which "was a wiz bang top of the line server" wasn't making things go faster because the old one had been too slow. Pro Tip: they had brought the new server on the second hand market and it was pretty slow already. Not that that would have helped with the 80,000 files in the root folder.
The rest of the staff, many who had been there for many years, just accepted this insanity and other examples and turned up to work each day.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
