So I've got this coworker who insists on calling every single product in a class by a single name. Kind of like how a lot of people in Florida like to call every form of carbonated beverage a Coke. But he extends this out to ridiculous levels. Every printer is "The Printer," any layer 3 device is "The Firewall," and so on. It really comes in handy when you have no idea where to go, you can just blame "The Firewall," regardless of what is actually on the edge of the network.
Earlier today, this coworker managed to waste 2 hours of his own time in addition to wasting 2 hours of a client's time looking for "The Buffalo." According to him, a Buffalo Linkstation (which only exists in his head) went missing in a recent move, and he cannot wrap his mind around the fact that the Seagate Blackarmor that they do still have isn't The Buffalo, never has been The Buffalo, and never will be The Buffalo. I guess a Buffalo Linkstation is the first NAS unit he encountered, so now every NAS in the world is "The Buffalo." We did have a lot of Buffalo Linkstations deployed, so I'm going with that.
The same guy once told us in a meeting that grammar and spelling aren't all that important in network documentation. All you really need is completeness. So yeah, you just need 5 different things on that Visio diagram labeled "The Buffalo." Clear as mud.
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