The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Nice Day for Golf (in Hades)

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2019-07-26

"A coworker was looking up what the weather was going to be like for his tee time. He said he’s definitely wearing shorts," writes Angela A.

7 comments - Last comment @ 2019-07-29

The Parameter was NOT Set

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2019-07-19

"Spotted this in front of a retro-looking record player in an Italian tech shop. I don't think anybody had any idea how to categorize it so they just left it up to the system," Marco D. writes.

15 comments - Last comment @ 2019-07-25

Errors Don't Always Ad up

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2019-07-12

"You know, I'm thinking that The guys working on AT&T's DIRECTV service must have not done well with fractions in school," Andrew T. writes.

12 comments - Last comment @ 2019-07-15

Classic WTF: Working Around, Over and Through the Process

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2019-07-05

It's still a holiday weekend in the US; after playing with fireworks yesterday, most of us have to spend today trying to find the fingers we lost. There are no fireworks in this classic story, but there may be some karma… Original --Remy

When Kevin landed a job at Townbank in the late 1980s, he came face-to-face with the same thing that thousands of newly minted developers had encountered before and since – there is more to being a corporate programmer than just writing code – there’s the process.

Second only, perhaps, to the strict rules commanded by the world’s religions, the process keeps the code consistent. Glory to the process – praised be the process - the process is good, the process should always be followed, and above all, the process is good for you!

9 comments - Last comment @ 2019-07-08