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They don't. That's why they disagreed with you.

The tradeoff here is an idiotic one.

You don't set your own building on fire in order to test fire safety.

You don't destroy company morale to test phishing security.

It's really that simple.



If we're arguing analogies, OK. Does your company ever have fire drills? What if the first sound of the alarm freaks someone out? What if people find it annoying/idiotic/morale reducing to walk down the fire stairs?

At some point you just say "look, we need to make sure our people are trained, if people think fire drills are stupid or upsetting, we have to take that hit because the alternative is worse."


Your analogy is disconnected from reality. Fire drills (aside from the surprise kind which can be pretty bad) are gone into with full knowledge.

You ain't comparing the same thing. Temporary discomfort is not the same as this boneheaded move that wrecked their morale.


Fire drills without the knowledge of the participants sounds like a very dangerous stunt to play, that it surely only exists on television.




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