Maciej Stachowski

CS student and .NET programmer extraordinaire, currently starting out in the corporate world.

Best of 2016: Dude, Where's My Hard Drive

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Instead of our standard workplace fare, this story is a bit different, because TRWTF is the Windows Registry. --Remy

Hard disk head crash

What, again? Michael stared at the Explorer window in disbelief. The free disk space bar was glowing red, and the text underneath reported that his half-terabyte system partition had a measly few gigs left before filling up.


Awful On Purpose

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Studying his new work contract, Stewart felt like he'd found a golden ticket. After 2 long and tedious years in the local university's IT department, he was happy for any opportunity to escape that hellhole. TLA Technologies looked like the Garden of Eden by comparison. Instead of being the only person responsible for anything vaguely computer-related—from putting up websites to plugging in power strips—he'd now be working with a "dynamic team of programmers" in a "rapidly growing company tapping into the web development market". Instead of dealing with tools and languages forgotten by history itself, he'd be using "modern, cutting-edge solutions" under "agile and customer-oriented methodologies". And instead of reporting to a pointy-haired supervisor who couldn't tell a computer from a toaster, he'd be working directly under Dave.


Guaranteed LOC PITA

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The task Tama set out to accomplish was rather straightforward. One of the clients had a legacy inventory management application, and they needed a simple text field added to an entry form.


A Painful Migration

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Database models

In most companies, business growth leads to greater organizational complexity. With more clients to juggle, owners must increasingly delegate less important tasks to a growing pool of employees and lower management. With time, the org charts grow from simple diagrams to poster-sized trees. Departments and SBUs become separate entities. What was once a three-man startup morphs into the enterprise behemoth we all know and love.


Back Away Slowly

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It'd been two hours since Mike had gone to bed. Two slow, miserable hours of counting sheep, staring at the barely visible ceiling, and trying to shake off the stress of the last few weeks at work.


Admin From Hell

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"Hello, everyone!"

Daniel's eyes slowly rose from his desk as his manager entered the room.


Just Check The Notepad

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As the last deployment script ran to completion, Michael sat back in his chair and let out a small sigh of relief.


Dude, Where's My Hard Drive?

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Hard disk head crash

What, again? Michael stared at the Explorer window in disbelief. The free disk space bar was glowing red, and the text underneath reported that his half-terabyte system partition had a measly few gigs left before filling up.


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