The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2013-09-06 Reply Admin

These things always depend on who .NET team reporting to. If that person doesn't know anything about software development its possible to stretch this stuff out for a year.

Just drop a few buzzwords like "agile, waterfall, extreme, cloud", always be super confident about everything you say, constantly report progress even if that progress is negligible and you are good to go.

We hired a guy at my job who was going to be a lead and I was supposed to be his subordinate. His first project was a program that would daily export data out of a 3rd party system and input it into one of ours. Very simple task and a good way to have someone familiarize with the basics of our main software. It was suppose to take a day at the very most 2.

My would be boss was able to stretch this task out for a month via the tactics I described. I brought this up a bunch of times, but he kept saying he had other tasks he was working on. Eventually I brought it up to the people in charge, my would be boss got canned.

To this day I'm not sure if he was lazy or incompetent(he did pass all the tests before getting hired with flying colors). But I did learn the art of bullshiting from him, as he was a master at it.

2013-09-08 Reply Admin

It's the software that makes you say "fuck". Over and over. All day long.

2013-09-08 Reply Admin

"Lotus Notes is still better than SharePoint. "

That's like saying a root canal is more pleasant than having your fingernails pulled out with pliers.

2013-10-13 Reply Admin

"they just keep paying us to do what is essentially the same work over and over"

That's not a scam. That's merely 'civilization'.

What? You think plumbing has changed much? Or mechanics? Saying that it's essentially the same rewritten is not a bad thing. A once-and-for all solution would be outdated pretty fast.

2013-10-14 Reply Admin

Sigg3.net:
"they just keep paying us to do what is essentially the same work over and over"
That's not a scam. That's merely 'civilization'.

What? You think plumbing has changed much? Or mechanics? Saying that it's essentially the same rewritten is not a bad thing. A once-and-for all solution would be outdated pretty fast.

Plumbing isn't "essentially the same", it's exactly the same, and you don't fix it unless it breaks.

A better analogy would be a college textbook. Despite the fact that the old editions don't break or stop working, and despite the fact that the main difference is the cover art, new editions come out every year or two.

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