[hinkley]

The thing with saying “I don’t know” is if you use it judiciously, people believe you more when you say you can do something they think can’t be done.

If he didn’t know he would just say. But he says he does.

[giancarlostoro]

He just did not want to keep his boss waiting longer than a week without a "solution" so he forced something to wash his hands of it.