The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

The dietary requirement one seems ok

Evo · 2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Anon:
The dietary requirement one seems ok

Agreed, they seem to be checkboxes, not radioboxes, so simply not checking anything should be fine.

Dan S., here, is the real WTF.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Evo:
Anon:
The dietary requirement one seems ok

Agreed, they seem to be checkboxes, not radioboxes, so simply not checking anything should be fine.

Dan S., here, is the real WTF.

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2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Evo:
Anon:
The dietary requirement one seems ok

Agreed, they seem to be checkboxes, not radioboxes, so simply not checking anything should be fine.

Dan S., here, is the real WTF.

Except it's a required field, as per the error message. It's not clear from the screenshot if the text field even counts for this purpose, or one of the checkboxes actually needs to be checked

captcha: tation - Little known fact is that "workstation" actually means "works tation", as in, "here works Tation."

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

The Facebook one is fine. If they want your birth date, presumably they'll want your gender as well.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Hidden bonus wtf in the article: "155th of December...only in Asutria I guess!"

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

YouWillNeverSeeMeAgain:
Hidden bonus wtf in the article: "155th of December...only in Asutria I guess!"

Did you try reading it?

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Did you? Because I've never heard of an Asutria. I know an Austria, but I've never heard of Asutria.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

The svn error message was clearly written by Yoda: "Bad C++ this is error you have had"

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Gareth:
Did you? Because I've never heard of an Asutria. I know an Austria, but I've never heard of Asutria.

And yet in the terms and conditions, you can see that the offer is valid in Asutria, not Austria.

It's a two-for-one WTF.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

So now a simple typo is a WHAT THE FUCK? It's not even a funny typo, nor does it in any way hinder the reader from deciphering the meaning.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Miss Ing:
Evo:
Anon:
The dietary requirement one seems ok

Agreed, they seem to be checkboxes, not radioboxes, so simply not checking anything should be fine.

Dan S., here, is the real WTF.

These comments require an answer.

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2013-11-22 Reply Admin

foo AKA fooo:
Miss Ing:
Evo:
Anon:
The dietary requirement one seems ok

Agreed, they seem to be checkboxes, not radioboxes, so simply not checking anything should be fine.

Dan S., here, is the real WTF.

These comments require an answer.
+2

I would guess that this is the usual case that the warning about requiring an answer only showed up after the user has already attempted to submit the page once. I.e. they're being actively prevented from proceeding unless they change their response to something other than what's currently being shown.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

TRWFT - 26 bucks for six ice cube trays (and that's the discount price)

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Like a ninja in the night, Hans (a.k.a. Hanzo) strolls the Asutria campus; using ice cubes in the freezer or not, having a business with a sex and a birthdate or not, exiting unresponsive Oracle installers or not, completing the signup for his app or not, having a vegan nut allergy or not.

Like Schrodinger's Cat, Hanzo (a.k.a. Hans) is both a ninja, a samurai, and neither all at once; he walks the fine line between existence and non-existence. So is he really here?

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2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Justsomedudette:
TRWFT - 26 bucks for six ice cube trays (and that's the discount price)

+1

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Looking at the sources that produce the "Bad C++ this" error message (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/native/org_apache_subversion_javahl_SVNRepos.cpp) the coder probably forgot a "j" in the sentence.

Of course the real WTF is the uncaught/unhandled exception.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

"I usually eat food."

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

155 days hath December, April, June, and Montana. All the rest have cold weather, except in the summer, which isn't very often.

(Yeah, you read correctly. Loony Toons fanatics will get the trivia reference.)

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

If I have counted correctly December 155th is equal to May 35th (at least for 2013 & 2014). Still, I assume the "155" is just a typo and there is no hidden meaning.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

TRWTF is people with dsylexia doing the final QA on customer messages.

Actually TRWTF is companies who employ people with dyselxia to maintain employee lists. I have had three different mis-spellings of my name so far in this place I've just joined, and that's even after I have carefully spelled it to them, several times, emailed it, written it down on post-it notes, and goodness knows what. I've spelt it to the drones out loud, and they've said, but that's what we've put. And I've said, no, listen, the (e.g.) first R has been missed out. Where's the first R? I told you (and I spell it out for them again).

IMO one of the more important aspects of courtesy in the treatment of your employees is to ensure you get their name correct. It is not my fault if I have a difficult name. It is entirely your responsibility to make sure that you have recorded it correctly.

Rant over. Sorry guys, I had to do that, the pressure was building.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

QJo:
I have had three different mis-spellings of my name so far in this place I've just joined

Harmless, at least if their mail reaches you. A couple of years ago I moved and emailed HR my new address. A short while later I needed them to send me something; it didn't arrive. So I called HR. "But we've sent it off!" "Didn't reach me. Where did you mail it to?" "We've mailed it to <old_address>". "But I don't live there anymore. I've emailed you my new address right after Christmas!" "I have received 300 emails between Christmas and New Year, do you think I can keep track of them all?" Is it really asking too much of someone working in HR to update an employee's record when he moves?

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

"I was in Asutria during the war!"

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

faoileag:
If I have counted correctly December 155th is equal to May 35th (at least for 2013 & 2014). Still, I assume the "155" is just a typo and there is no hidden meaning.

And the 35th of May is a thing.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

faoileag:
Is it really asking too much of someone working in HR to update an employee's record when he moves?

From my experience of HR departments: yes.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

faoileag:
Justsomedudette:
TRWFT - 26 bucks for six ice cube trays (and that's the discount price)
+1

TRWTF is misspelling TRWTF :-P

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

I guess you forgot to subtract 31 days of December. 155-31-31-28-31-30=4 --> 4th of May, or 155-31-31-29-31-30=3 --> 3rd of May if the following year is a leap year.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Only your doctor can decide if Asutria is right for you. Asutria can cause serious side-effects including nausea, vomiting, explosive diarheaa, incontinence, night sweats, and uncontrollable giggling. Asutria should not be used by pregnant women, women who were pregnant in the past, women who will be pregnant in the future, children between the ages of 14 months and 6.3 years, or breastfeeding men. Please read and follow all label directions.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Gareth:
Did you? Because I've never heard of an Asutria. I know an Austria, but I've never heard of Asutria.

This is not a WTF. Made up places can have made up calendars.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Evo:
Anon:
The dietary requirement one seems ok

Agreed, they seem to be checkboxes, not radioboxes, so simply not checking anything should be fine.

Dan S., here, is the real WTF.

Except that it's a mandatory survey question requiring some form of answer, either as a comment or a checkbox tick.

(I thought the same thing at frist.)

Steve The Cynic · 2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Krunt:
Except that it's a mandatory survey question requiring some form of answer, either as a comment or a checkbox tick.
(I thought the same thing at frist.)

It's easy, really. We all have dietary requirements. Mine goes something like this:

Food

Although in a pinch, a bottle of cider(*) will do.

(*) Cider, not unfiltered apple juice.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

CigarDoug:
Like a ninja in the night, Hans (a.k.a. Hanzo) strolls the Asutria campus; using ice cubes in the freezer or not, having a business with a sex and a birthdate or not, exiting unresponsive Oracle installers or not, completing the signup for his app or not, having a vegan nut allergy or not.
Like Schrodinger's Cat, Hanzo (a.k.a. Hans) is both a ninja, a samurai, and neither all at once; he walks the fine line between existence and non-existence. So is he really here?

This question requires an answer.

Bad ninja this

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

faoileag:
Is it really asking too much of someone in HR to perform work?

FTFY, and yes, it is.

operagost · 2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Justsomedudette:
TRWFT - 26 bucks for six ice cube trays (and that's the discount price)

But they're special edition colors!

"Yeah, maybe my avocado fridge from 1980 doesn't have an ice maker. But I have the Rubbermaid SPECIAL EDITION AQUA ICE CUBE TRAYS! They're freezer safe!

OgdenTechGuy · 2013-11-22 Reply Admin

You'd think that the freezer-safe state of ice cube trays would be a given. But a few years ago, my (then) 10-year-old niece snapped an ice tray in half when she was trying to pop the ice out in the normal fashion.

She was so scared that she'd be in trouble. I told her, if the ice tray was that fragile, she could hardly be faulted for breaking it.

D-Coder · 2013-11-22 Reply Admin

QJo:
TRWTF is people with dsylexia doing the final QA on customer messages.
Actually TRWTF is companies who employ people with dyselxia to maintain employee lists. I have had three different mis-spellings of my name so far in this place I've just joined, and that's even after I have carefully spelled it to them, several times, emailed it, written it down on post-it notes, and goodness knows what. I've spelt it to the drones out loud, and they've said, but that's what we've put. And I've said, no, listen, the (e.g.) first R has been missed out. Where's the first R? I told you (and I spell it out for them again).

IMO one of the more important aspects of courtesy in the treatment of your employees is to ensure you get their name correct. It is not my fault if I have a difficult name. It is entirely your responsibility to make sure that you have recorded it correctly.

Rant over. Sorry guys, I had to do that, the pressure was building.

If you're trying to get them to include the first "R" in "QJo", I can see why they're not getting it right.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Justsomedudette:
TRWFT - 26 bucks for six ice cube trays (and that's the discount price)

And 36 bucks "list" price... that's six bucks each!

But TRRWTF is "limited edition" ice cube trays... that are just a different color. If you're going to go to the trouble of making a limited edition, at least make them in interesting shapes. Like maybe a tray that makes Windows logo ice cubes? They never crash, they just melt!

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

if (C++) { delete pFrist; }

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

faoileag:
QJo:
I have had three different mis-spellings of my name so far in this place I've just joined
Harmless, at least if their mail reaches you. A couple of years ago I moved and emailed HR my new address. A short while later I needed them to send me something; it didn't arrive. So I called HR. "But we've sent it off!" "Didn't reach me. Where did you mail it to?" "We've mailed it to <old_address>". "But I don't live there anymore. I've emailed you my new address right after Christmas!" "I have received 300 emails between Christmas and New Year, do you think I can keep track of them all?" Is it really asking too much of someone working in HR to update an employee's record when he moves?

One of my friends had an interesting issue. His first initials are D and R. So, a parcel arrives for him for "DR Newman", and of course the office knows there aren't any 'Newman's with a PhD (reading it as "Dr. Newman") in the department so assumes it's been sent to the wrong place...

Dragnslcr · 2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Anon 3:16:
The Facebook one is fine. If they want your birth date, presumably they'll want your gender as well.

Maybe the picture is cropped, but there doesn't appear to be an input field for gender.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Dragnslcr:
Anon 3:16:
The Facebook one is fine. If they want your birth date, presumably they'll want your gender as well.
Maybe the picture is cropped, but there doesn't appear to be an input field for gender.

Which makes the error message "Please select either Male or Female" even more of a WTF.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Sure you could pay less for 6 ice cube trays, but would they be freezer safe?

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Re:

Justsomedudette:
TRWFT - 26 bucks for six ice cube trays (and that's the discount price)

-- Sure you could pay less for 6 ice cube trays, but would they be freezer safe?

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Nut Allergy! That's why the President's daughter was sick.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

TRWTF is SVN

Captcha: secundum (second)

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Does installing Oracle on Windows usually require X11?

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

QJo:
TRWTF is people with dsylexia doing the final QA on customer messages.
Actually TRWTF is companies who employ people with dyselxia to maintain employee lists. I have had three different mis-spellings of my name so far in this place I've just joined, and that's even after I have carefully spelled it to them, several times, emailed it, written it down on post-it notes, and goodness knows what. I've spelt it to the drones out loud, and they've said, but that's what we've put. And I've said, no, listen, the (e.g.) first R has been missed out. Where's the first R? I told you (and I spell it out for them again).

IMO one of the more important aspects of courtesy in the treatment of your employees is to ensure you get their name correct. It is not my fault if I have a difficult name. It is entirely your responsibility to make sure that you have recorded it correctly.

Rant over. Sorry guys, I had to do that, the pressure was building.

Prey tell, QJo, where does your R go?

Kuba · 2013-11-22 Reply Admin

I have received 300 emails between Christmas and New Year, do you think I can keep track of them all

Yes, it's your fucking job, otherwise sod off, there are surely plenty of others more willing to, like, work. I mean, heck, poor thing has to work! Oh, the humanity :(

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Liam:
Does installing Oracle on Windows usually require X11?

Yes. X11 is kept inside the second of 5 jdk's embedded in the installer. True, story.

2013-11-22 Reply Admin

Torgo:
Only your doctor can decide if Asutria is right for you. Asutria can cause serious side-effects including nausea, vomiting, explosive diarheaa, incontinence, night sweats, and uncontrollable giggling. Asutria should not be used by pregnant women, women who were pregnant in the past, women who will be pregnant in the future, children between the ages of 14 months and 6.3 years, or breastfeeding men. Please read and follow all label directions.

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