The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

When BSODs Pile Up

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2018-07-27

"I suppose the ropes were there to keep the infection from spreading to other screens," Stan I. wrote.

21 comments - Last comment @ 2018-08-09

Upon Reaching a Certain Age...

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2018-07-20

"Evidently, once you hit 55, LinkedIn thinks you'll age until your buffer overflows," writes Jonathan L.

25 comments - Last comment @ 2018-07-26

Classic WTF: The Mega Bureaucracy

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2018-07-18

Part of the reason we need a summer break is because we simply don't have the organizational skills of this particular company. I wonder if they sell consulting. Original -- Remy

Photo credit: 'digicla' at Flickr At my daytime corporate-type job, if I need to even sneeze in the general direction of a production environment, I need both a managerial and customer approvals with documentation solemnly stating that I thoroughly tested my changes and swear on a stack of MSDN licenses and O'Reilly books that I am NOT going to break anything as a result of my changes. Sure, the whole thing is a pain (and admittedly, a necessary evil), but what Bruce W. has to go through beats the pants off of anything I've ever had to go through.

For the most part, Bruce loves his job. He gets to work with a lot of intelligent and motivated people. He has been developing a new system to support a new product that has the possibility of earning his division several million dollars per year and saving the corporate parent several hundred thousand dollars per year. The net effect on the corporate parent's bottom line will be quite nice. He developed a Web front end while a fellow developer put together the data feeds. The initial development work was estimated to take about six weeks; pretty good since we only had eight weeks to work with.

23 comments - Last comment @ 2018-07-23

All the Way from Sweden

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2018-07-13

"And to think, this price doesn't include assembly," wrote Adam G.

19 comments - Last comment @ 2018-07-21

Is Null News Good News?

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2018-07-06

"The Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard knows when it's a slow news day, null happens," Bill T. writes.

21 comments - Last comment @ 2018-07-24