Boy who cried wolf in reverse? [LWN.net]

Boy who cried wolf in reverse?

Posted Jun 12, 2025 13:38 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Boy who cried wolf in reverse? by dskoll
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

> I bet many people who've given tech support have had similar experiences. 🙂

I've always heard it referred to as "the consultant effect"

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Posted Jun 12, 2025 16:54 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] (2 responses)

A friend in college had the OPPOSITE effect. He would break things just by trying them, when they worked fine for everyone else.

And yes, his first job out of college was in QA...

Posted Jun 12, 2025 20:10 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

I have that skill too... I am very good at breaking things, which is quite a useful thing in testing/QA.

Posted Jun 12, 2025 21:41 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

IBM allegedly had the "Black Team" - a collection of those sort of people.

Devel;opment teams used to quake in their boots when told their software was being paid a visit by these people.

Cheers,
Wol