I wish I was joking.
I worked for a company that had a gui that ran on customers' desktops aka not our hardware. We were discussing a new feature but we weren't sure how many people used the particular module in the GUI that the feature would impact. There was a discussion about how we could find out which users had that module in their layout and one of the devs says "Let's ask Tom. He's the product manager and he talks to the clients. He'll know!"
I then asked: "If you don't mind my asking, where are the individual GUI layouts saved?". I asked this b/c at a previous job I also worked with a desktop GUI but the layouts were stored on the user's desktop which made it tough to access.
The dev replies to me "On a server", I respond: "On a server we own and have access to?", dev: "yes"
To which I replied: "Why don't we go look at the gui layouts on the server instead of talking to Tom?"
Managers hired a consulting firm to get a report about why they couldn't hire : The report confirmed they couldn't get application because they overpaid engineers and their job ads were too generous.
Sometimes, you just have to use any broken maths to give the only thing that managers want to hear.