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      GlennBarley last edited by

      We recently published a "Would you rather" post on our blog and are planning on creating another one. I wanted to reach out to you clever folks to see if you could offer up any tough/clever/funny would you rather questions for the MSP community. Some of the examples that we have currently are....

      • Never have a client get malware OR Never lose a skilled technician?
      • Have a big client get hooked by a phising scheme OR Have one of your own employees hooked by a phishing scheme?
      • Have an 8 day recovery window OR Have a small backup drive that needs to last 8 days?

      What else can we ask?!

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      • DustinB3403
        DustinB3403 last edited by

        Would you rather get crypto-locked, or a client get crypto-locked?

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        • DustinB3403
          DustinB3403 last edited by

          Would you rather have to support and implement a system you know full well won't meet the needs of the client or lose a client who's paying you top dollar for the aforementioned services to someone else?

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          • Dashrender
            Dashrender last edited by

            huh - wouldn't the answer for an MSP be always be to the the one you can bill get the problem?

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            • scottalanmiller
              scottalanmiller last edited by

              I think in would you rather "yourself or a client" it is always the client. Let's be realistic - we never want a problem to be our fault or even our problem. Plus clients pay for service, that earns money when they've been careless or unfortunate. Not that we want it to happen, but we certainly never want it to be our fault!

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller @Dashrender last edited by

                @Dashrender said:

                huh - wouldn't the answer for an MSP be always be to the the one you can bill get the problem?

                That's what I was thinking. Our job at an MSP is often to solve customer disasters. It's not that we want them to have disasters, any more than the fire department doesn't want peoples' houses to burn, but our job is to handle that stuff routinely.

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                • MattSpeller
                  MattSpeller last edited by

                  Solid reliable system or 100% Working Backups

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller @MattSpeller last edited by

                    @MattSpeller said:

                    Solid reliable system or 100% Working Backups

                    I don't think that there is much of a question there. Would you like a great seatbelt or to never need one?

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                    • dafyre
                      dafyre @MattSpeller last edited by

                      @MattSpeller said:

                      Solid reliable system or 100% Working Backups

                      100% Working Backups... Solid reliable systems can fail.

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                      • MattSpeller
                        MattSpeller @dafyre last edited by

                        @dafyre said:

                        @MattSpeller said:

                        Solid reliable system or 100% Working Backups

                        100% Working Backups... Solid reliable systems can fail.

                        I'd go the other way and create backups of the working system but I grok where you're coming from

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                        • scottalanmiller
                          scottalanmiller @MattSpeller last edited by

                          @MattSpeller said:

                          @dafyre said:

                          @MattSpeller said:

                          Solid reliable system or 100% Working Backups

                          100% Working Backups... Solid reliable systems can fail.

                          I'd go the other way and create backups of the working system but I grok where you're coming from

                          Better to avoid a fence on top of a cliff than a hospital beneath it 🙂

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                          • Dashrender
                            Dashrender @scottalanmiller last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @MattSpeller said:

                            Solid reliable system or 100% Working Backups

                            I don't think that there is much of a question there. Would you like a great seatbelt or to never need one?

                            I'm not sure that's a good comparison.

                            A solid reliable system does not imply it will never fail, but to never need a seatbelt means I can clearly go without it.

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                            • scottalanmiller
                              scottalanmiller last edited by

                              I'm pretty sure the point of the question was that it was completely reliable since the alternative was completely reliable. If it wasn't then again, no question, one was totally reliable with the backups.

                              Honestly, impossible questions are pointless. Nothing is perfectly reliable, so there is no point.

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                              • Dashrender
                                Dashrender @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                I'm pretty sure the point of the question was that it was completely reliable since the alternative was completely reliable. If it wasn't then again, no question, one was totally reliable with the backups.

                                Honestly, impossible questions are pointless. Nothing is perfectly reliable, so there is no point.

                                Exactly, so sort of some funniness, I'm not really sure why I would read about two fictional non-nonsensical situations.

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                                • scottalanmiller
                                  scottalanmiller last edited by

                                  Would you rather all of your IT staff be rabbits or all of management be frogs.

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                                  • MattSpeller
                                    MattSpeller @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    Would you rather all of your IT staff be rabbits or all of management be frogs.

                                    Manglement can ribbet. Zero hesitation.

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                                    • coliver
                                      coliver @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      Would you rather all of your IT staff be rabbits or all of management be frogs.

                                      I have no idea what this mean?

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                                      • scottalanmiller
                                        scottalanmiller @coliver last edited by

                                        @coliver said:

                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        Would you rather all of your IT staff be rabbits or all of management be frogs.

                                        I have no idea what this mean?

                                        Once we are asking fanciful, impossible questions... what is the point? We might as well talk about fairies and talking animals taking over jobs.

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                                        • dafyre
                                          dafyre @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller said:

                                          @coliver said:

                                          @scottalanmiller said:

                                          Would you rather all of your IT staff be rabbits or all of management be frogs.

                                          I have no idea what this mean?

                                          Once we are asking fanciful, impossible questions... what is the point? We might as well talk about fairies and talking animals taking over jobs.

                                          Well, Youtube does have the armies of code monkeys.

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