> bullish [...] but not my specialty

IMO we can augment this criticism by asking which tasks the technology was demoed on that made them so excited in the first place, and how much of their own job is doing those same tasks--even if they don't want to admit it.

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1. "To evaluate these tools, I shall apply them to composing meeting memos and skimming lots of incoming e-mails."

2. "Wow! Look at them go! This is the Next Big Thing for the whole industry."

3. "Concerned? Me? Nah, memos and e-mails are things everybody does just as much as I do, right? My real job is Leadership!"

4. "Anyway, this is gonna be huge for replacing staff that have easier jobs like diagnosing customer problems. A dozen of them are a bigger expense than just one of me anyway."