Help me help you

Warning, this is a rant. Overall I do like my job, and in general I like people. Yet I have to ask why is it that there are times it is so hard to communicate and to help someone understand that there is what I will simply call individual responsibility. This idea is on occasion completely lacking in the minds and hearts of otherwise rational human beings with a basic level of God-given intelligence.

To the user in this state of cluelessness: If you are unable or unwilling to assist your friendly neighborhood IT person/department with such fundamental principles as where you store your work related files, or what the frig you named a file (even one single word that you are certain was in the file name), then I am sorry to say that you are on your own.

And when it comes to InfoSec and DR/BC the same rules apply. If you don't have the ability to care about where your files are and whether they are being backed up, and you are OK with leaving your password post-it under your keyboard then I must advise you that I will find it hard to muster any sympathy or empathy when (not if) you get powned. In fact it will take every bit of my already limited supply of self control to not shout I TOLD YOU SO when the inevitable happens.

So the subtext on the t-shirt above reads: because their ignorance is your job security. True that, I shut up now...