>>> I finally got tired of listening to her whinging (and trying to look over my shoulder at the data), looked at her and told that the reason why I could see it was because I didn't care. It was all just numbers and words to me and my biggest concern was making sure the numbers got into the correct boxes/fields/tables/etc and attached to the correct words.
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>>This is the essence of the issue. Now I wish those IT cerberes would understand that.
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>I once won 10$ off one of our Securitynazis by betting them I could find at least 5 lists of passwords in any given office area because they wanted to implement a password policy even more draconian than the one we already had - change every 30 days, couldn't re-use a password from the last 12 months. I told them that this forced people to do the two things you really shouldn't do, use patterns and write them down. He swore people didn't do that and I said "bet me".

Yes, people will find ways to cope.
I saw what was for me for me the most extreme example way back in the mag tape days.
I was working for a large company that stored critical tapes at Iron Mountain in upstate NY.
Part of a manager's job was to go to the site periodically to be sure that all was OK.
Iron Mountain, so the story went then, was built at the order of General Douglas McArthur after WWII as a nuke-proof facility.
My turn came along and I went.
The door to the room where the tapes were kept was over 4' thick and over 10' high.
It was open, so I asked one of the guards there why it was open.
He said "We never close that thing during working hours. It takes forever to close it and then when we have to open it again it takes more time. We'd never get anything done it we closed it."