>>We could have just flatly refused to do this, but this served a higher purpose: nobody ever tried to ask for such a report again.
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>>Well actually someone did, but that was in a different company, three years later... and that one was just two boxes of paper. Same lesson, same effect, but this time it was chargeable and we didn't spare the idiot.
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>Nice work, then. Sometimes one must turn the brain off and just do as ordered. Will show itself. :)
Well I guess my boss tried to talk the guy out of it, but he took it as a sign that we may be hiding something, and got backed up by a couple of others in his collegium or whatever they had. So yes, the only acceptable proof was the constructive proof.