• (cs) in reply to Crash Magnet
    Crash Magnet:
    Another Brazilian Guy:
    Anon:
    Another Brazilian Guy:
    Jason:
    This is taken from Brazil. Sometimes I feel my workplace is a little like this...

    Funny that I was thinking exactly the same (even the name "Luis" is spelled the same in portuguese.)

    I used to work for the state government in Brazil and it was mostly the same as the related on this story.

    Thankfully I left that hellhole a couple of years ago!

    The film Brazil, not the Country

    Clearly, the film was inspired in the country!!!

    But, was the country inspired by the film?

    Brazil: Now a Major Motion Picture!

  • jimicus (unregistered) in reply to RFairey
    He must be working in the Hausdorff that Sends You Mad.

    Why not try the new circular B-39?

    Nah, you want permit A-39 as stipulated in circular B-65.

  • Central Harlem Anonymous (unregistered)

    Not precisely a WTF, and yet somehow the most beautiful WTF ever.

  • Herohtar (unregistered)

    If I share this article with my friends would you say it was passed around?

  • Some Wonk (unregistered)

    OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.

  • Paula (unregistered)

    form == Paula == Brillant

  • bsaksida (unregistered) in reply to henke37
    henke37:
    Something tells me that this will not be dealt with face-to-face.

    He can, only if he stand in front of mirror

  • jobrahms (unregistered)

    I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

  • WhatsInAName (unregistered)

    It sounds like he should fill out an ID-10T form detailing why this feature was delayed...

    Error 1 Error 2

  • ftank99 (unregistered)

    This story was so hard to read - i couldn't even finish it.

  • Fred (unregistered)

    I wrote this story myself, 3 months ago, but Alex changed it so much I didn't recognize it and nearly rejected it.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Vern from Accounting can give you clarification, but nobody ever sees him. KnoWhutImean?
    Seems like a joke, but I don't know. Maybe you were in dead earnest when you wrote it.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to webrunner
    webrunner:
    Crash Magnet:
    Another Brazilian Guy:
    Anon:
    Another Brazilian Guy:
    Jason:
    This is taken from Brazil. Sometimes I feel my workplace is a little like this...

    Funny that I was thinking exactly the same (even the name "Luis" is spelled the same in portuguese.)

    I used to work for the state government in Brazil and it was mostly the same as the related on this story.

    Thankfully I left that hellhole a couple of years ago!

    The film Brazil, not the Country

    Clearly, the film was inspired in the country!!!

    But, was the country inspired by the film?

    Brazil: Now a Major Motion Picture!

    Brazil: Now a major South American country!

  • (cs) in reply to RogerC
    RogerC:
    frits:
    Vern from Accounting can give you clarification, but nobody ever sees him. KnoWhutImean?
    Seems like a joke, but I don't know. Maybe you were in dead earnest when you wrote it.
    Man! That's pretty rough.

    Found this little gem:

    [image] Caption reads: Jim Varney confronts a troll--and a creatively stifling career--in 1991's Ernest Scared Stupid.
  • SD (unregistered)

    So, it was earth all along?

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to SD
    SD:
    So, it was earth all along?

    "To Serve Man"; it's a cookbook!!

  • Brandon (unregistered)
    I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584442/quotes

    Says it all. Having worked for the USPS, this seems quite streamlined actually! :D

  • rob (unregistered) in reply to Jason
    Jason:
    This is taken from Brazil. Sometimes I feel my workplace is a little like this...

    I actually had an air-con problem in a university lab once. The unit was dripping a tiny weeny bit of water into one of our computer labs. I got the air con guys to come round and look at it, but was told they couldn't enter the room until I had a form from IT validating that the computer equipment posed no risk.

    So... had to go to the IT department to get them to go in and remove the computers. They couldn't enter the room because of the dripping water, and required a form from the air-con guys saying it was safe to enter the room.

    So, off to the estates dept (who look after the rooms) to get them to do something about it. Had to fill in a request form for them to secure the room, however they couldn't enter the room until both the air-con guys had secured the air-con unit, and the IT guys had removed all PC's from the lab.

    It took about 3 weeks to get resolved until we could get our lab back. In the end, the only way to get an air con engineer in there was to write off 25 perfectly good dual xeon workstations. This then meant they were classified as 'dangerous waste' and could be removed by a specialist contractor. At least the contractor found the situation as daft as I did. They gave all of the 'written off' pc's to any student who wanted one, whilst the uni used an insurance claim to restock the lab....

  • quisling (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    Holy CRAP! Is that...no...it can't be...is that...an honest to God, PUNCHLINE?!?!? [...snip...]
    Two pages, and nary a complaint about typos, grammatical snafus, or "creative" embellishment?! This hardly seems possible! And yet... oddly, this WTF truly doesn't seem to have been bowytched as badly as the recent string of... oh, hello! Did you notice the editor?

    Welcome aboard, Lorne!

    :D

  • Puck (unregistered)
    ...after filing the feature request with his department head. Surely, she'd know why. "I have no clue," Shirley stated...

    I see what you did, there.

  • Dwayne (unregistered)

    Is that perhaps a reference to the Hausdorff dimension used to characterize fractals?

  • Sage (unregistered)

    This is the BIGGEST WTF I've seen on here in a while.

  • (cs) in reply to quisling
    quisling:
    Welcome aboard, Lorne!

    :D

    {takes a bow} Thank you. =)

  • (cs)

    This company must be the one using the process seen in theThe Customer Friendly System.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    You know how you'll look at some old code and wonder what kind of idiot would write crap like that, only to realize that you wrote it?

    This is the business analyst version of that.

  • r2k (unregistered)

    The Bureaucracy is expanding, to meet the needs of the expanding Bereaucracy.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to SR
    SR:
    Is Luis K a relative of Josef K?
    I hope not. Signing your own death warrant would be a bit embarrassing.
  • (cs) in reply to Brandon
    Brandon:
    I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584442/quotes

    Says it all. Having worked for the USPS, this seems quite streamlined actually! :D

    Why would you quote that much without the punchline?

    WE KEPT IT GREY!
  • threedeep (unregistered)

    A marginally cheerier modern Kafka! I say cheerier because Luis wasn't turned into a bug.

  • (cs)

    Poor Luis K and his red-tape. Payback is such a bitch :)

  • harv (unregistered)

    Do we get a unicorn chaser after this story? Was there really nothing better to publish? Aye aye aye.

  • Xythar (unregistered) in reply to Downfall
    Downfall:
    This is actually standard practice in embedded systems, when there's no file system to record 27b-6s. It's no big deal.

    Why the hell do people keep making these comments on TDWTF articles? It can't be SEO or otherwise googlebombing/spam because there's no link to influence, unless they really want to increase TDWTF's search engine rank for embedded systems or whatever. Which would make no sense.

    Can anyone explain?

  • (cs)

    That deserves the ultimate facepalm.

  • harv (unregistered)

    Do we get a unicorn chaser after this story? Was there really nothing better to publish? Aye aye aye.

  • harv (unregistered) in reply to Xythar

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme

  • sl (unregistered) in reply to Ian

    Oh cut the man a break, he was young and reckless then

  • harv (unregistered)

    Do we get a unicorn chaser after this story? Was there really nothing better to publish? Aye aye aye.

  • RFairey (unregistered) in reply to jimicus
    jimicus:
    He must be working in the Hausdorff that Sends You Mad.

    Why not try the new circular B-39?

    Nah, you want permit A-39 as stipulated in circular B-65.

    My bad. I'll pop down to window 1 and fill out the green form...

  • Dirk (unregistered) in reply to Xythar
    Xythar:
    Downfall:
    This is actually standard practice in embedded systems, when there's no file system to record 27b-6s. It's no big deal.

    Why the hell do people keep making these comments on TDWTF articles? It can't be SEO or otherwise googlebombing/spam because there's no link to influence, unless they really want to increase TDWTF's search engine rank for embedded systems or whatever. Which would make no sense.

    Can anyone explain?

    Would you prefer the wooden table?

  • Jherico (unregistered)

    wasn't 27b-6 the name of the ficticious form from the movie Brazil? The one that caused Bob Hoskins to have to club his partner?

  • OMG_PONIES!!! (unregistered) in reply to bearda

    no he had been there a week when he submitted the feature for approval

  • Jherico (unregistered) in reply to Jherico

    next time I need to refresh before I post

  • Drulitzen (unregistered) in reply to Jherico

    Methinks it's a reference to 27bslash6 - the website of the guy that tried to pay a bill with a drawing of a 7 legged spider.

  • Brad (unregistered)

    I don't understand why he didn't just resubmit the bug and then approve it the next time it came full-circle to him. Was he afraid he would forget again in a month and a half?

  • Dowser (unregistered)

    27B/6? I HATE 27B/6!

  • Rich (unregistered) in reply to Ian

    "Sweet... something... of... something." --Hermes Conrad

  • Spoor (unregistered) in reply to Dowser

    Air conditioning, don't fix itself!!!! I think we'll take a little look, see! (twirls spanner)

  • Spoor (unregistered) in reply to Drulitzen
    Drulitzen:
    Methinks it's a reference to 27bslash6 - the website of the guy that tried to pay a bill with a drawing of a 7 legged spider.

    The website "27BSlash6" is actually a reference to "27B / 6" (Twenty-Seven-B-Stroke-6], the form that has to be filled out by Central Services before they work on your "ducting" in the movie Brazil. Basically nobody can work on anything without a 27B/6.

    This WTF, whilst humorous, is just fiction, as evidenced by the use of the form number "27B-6". I'm stunned that so few people on this site even picked up the reference. You must all be generation Y....

  • Crusty (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    You know how you'll look at some old code and wonder what kind of idiot would write crap like that, only to realize that you wrote it?

    This is the business analyst version of that.

    +1

    Been there done that :)

  • FailBoy (unregistered)

    wow, and I thought I failed badly at times.

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