Me: “I think the crisis communication plan is flawed. In that scenario, there’s no way a virus could be passed through the content management system onto the external site. There’s no reason to shut that server down.”
Boss’s Boss: “In a crisis, you have to shut down everything. You don’t have time for a decision about particular servers!”
Me: “We’re not in a crisis. We can put that server on a seperate switch now and shut down everything else if the scenario ever calls for it.”
Boss: “There you go again, being logical. You can’t apply logic to a crisis!”
Me: “Yes you can. Besides, as I pointed out, we’re not in a crisis. There’s no reason we shouldn’t apply logic to the crisis test so decisions like those don’t have to be made under duress.”
Boss’s Boss: “I don’t want to be in the foxhole with you when the grenade is thrown. You’d sit there and argue with it.”
Me: “Yeah, I make good cannon fodder.”
Boss: “Good. Then we’ll put you on the crisis test planning committee.”
Boss’s Boss: “And we expect you to throw yourself on the grenades.”
Me: “I can’t wait.”
