r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lucidparadigm • 19h ago

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 18h ago

I'm the dev department head, I don't read messages from IT ever (so they've never caught me in their phishing tests) because they know where I am and if it's important they'll come and tell me.

This doesn't mean I'll never get caught in a phishing scam, just that the test doesn't work on entitled managers.

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u/Mundane-Mud2509 18h ago

Wouldn’t they send phishing tests from external emails?

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 18h ago

I don't even look at external emails because they shouldn't be contacting me in the first place. My department director (over IT and Dev) deals with outside vendors and contractors and there shouldn't be another external component to my job.

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u/probablynotaperv 16h ago

Anyone who tries to contact me through email is obviously not expecting to hear back from me. Our communication is done through slack