Former Co-Worker
One of the stupidest questions I’ve ever heard came from a former co-worker. About 14 years ago, the company I worked at had a corporate-wide meeting for about 100 people. It was led by the owner and president of the company.
The meeting topic was that we were moving our corporate office from the property it had resided on since the company started 60+ years prior to a new building a few suburbs over. Included in the presentation was a picture of the new building, with the other company’s signage still on the building.
At the end of the presentation, the owner opened it up for questions. A woman raised her hand, stood up in front of every corporate employee, and she exposed her stupidity with a single question: “Are we going to change the sign on the building?”
Nearly everyone turned to look at who would ask such a question. We all saw who it was and collectively thought, “Oh yeah, of course, it was her.”
The owner stared at her for at least five seconds, as dumbfounded as the rest of us, before finally just replying, “Yes, we will change the sign to read the name of our company”.