Oftentimes when I've heard that it translates to "I'm way too busy to take responsibility for that myself, and you're the expert, so you're elected to handle it."
It would be nice if everyone had the time and pay to actually be informed about all angles of their prospective jobs, but, especially in IT, that's an absolutely daunting -- if not utterly impossible -- expectation. People specialise, and sometimes even relative generalists don't do very well in getting hired, because the CW is "experience a mile wide and an inch deep," whether that's true or not.
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It would be nice if everyone had the time and pay to actually be informed about all angles of their prospective jobs, but, especially in IT, that's an absolutely daunting -- if not utterly impossible -- expectation. People specialise, and sometimes even relative generalists don't do very well in getting hired, because the CW is "experience a mile wide and an inch deep," whether that's true or not.