• (cs) in reply to Valued Service
    Valued Service:
    Zacrath:
    Wow, that's almost as bad as using your forum software to track bugs. But who would be stupid enough to do that?

    Bug.

    Won't allow me to post bugs.

    "Hits enter"

    Error: Something bad happened.

    That won't do much on that certain software.

  • oblivion (unregistered)

    Maggie dying reminded me of my coworker's (who is 2 years from retirement) "D.A.D." retirement plan, which he had on his whiteboard. When I asked him about it, D.A.D means "Die at Desk."

  • Primo (unregistered)

    .Xlsx files can't contain macros. Most likely it was .Xls (pre 2007 Excel files) otherwise it must have been .Xlsm or .Xlsb.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to pjt33
    pjt33:
    anonymous:
    olaf:
    Why did she die?
    Old age, probably. "Every email was kept under Inbox" and the use of ALL CAPS FILENAMES were the main hints.
    The choice of "aging" to describe her in the first paragraph is a fairly big hint too.
    But that was the solution. The problem only arose when she stopped aging.
  • (cs)
    One day, Rebecca arrived in the office to find three black-suited men waiting for her. She wondered if someone with her name had run afoul of the FBI.

    "Rebecca? We have a serious problem. Your supervisor Maggie has died."

    At this point I was like, "Wait, what? ...Oh right, an Erik Gern story."

  • Hannes (unregistered) in reply to lucidfox
    lucidfox:
    One day, Rebecca arrived in the office to find three black-suited men waiting for her. She wondered if someone with her name had run afoul of the FBI.

    "Rebecca? We have a serious problem. Your supervisor Maggie has died."

    At this point I was like, "Wait, what? ...Oh right, an Erik Gern story."

    You have to admit it's a MUCH better read than most (if not all) of his previous stories, though.

  • Mathias (unregistered)

    TRWTF is not nothing beforehand what bug reporting software they use. The fuck did you talk about in the job interview?

  • Mathias (unregistered) in reply to Mathias

    FTFMyself: TRWTF is not knowing beforehand what bug reporting software they use. The fuck did you talk about in the job interview?

  • Dolor (unregistered) in reply to Alan
    Alan:
    I was amused, so I jokingly asked her what happened when a note got old and fell off. She replied that if it was so old, they were probably not able to fix the issue anyway.

    That's the kind of feature I miss in the bugtracking systems (sic) we use. :)

    -dolor

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to oblivion
    oblivion:
    Maggie dying reminded me of my coworker's (who is 2 years from retirement) "D.A.D." retirement plan, which he had on his whiteboard. When I asked him about it, D.A.D means "Die at Desk."

    One of the guys in a company I worked at did just that. This stuff does happen.

  • nitePhyyre (unregistered) in reply to foo AKA fooo
    foo AKA fooo:
    Martin:
    When you are not happy, kill your boss and you get his job.

    Good to know!

    Standard practice in the Klingon empire.
    And in the Mirror universe.

  • nitePhyyre (unregistered) in reply to Mathias
    Mathias:
    TRWTF is not nothing beforehand what bug reporting software they use. The fuck did you talk about in the job interview?
    How broke you were and how badly you needed a job?
  • Mathias (unregistered) in reply to nitePhyyre

    Yeah, like it's hard to get a job in IT.

  • (cs) in reply to Zacrath
    Zacrath:
    Wow, that's almost as bad as using your forum software to track bugs. But who would be stupid enough to do that?
    "The thing don't work!" - Discourse in a nutshell.
  • Uncle Al (unregistered)
    One day, Rebecca arrived in the office to find three black-suited men waiting for her. She wondered if someone with her name had run afoul of the FBI.

    "Rebecca? We have a serious problem. Your supervisor Maggie has died."

    "And if you don't get the president's daughter's "thing" working again soon, we'll be visiting your next of kin..."

  • darkmage0707077 (unregistered) in reply to Groundhog Boy

    Simon? Is that you?

  • justme (unregistered) in reply to Dolor
    Dolor:
    Alan:
    I was amused, so I jokingly asked her what happened when a note got old and fell off. She replied that if it was so old, they were probably not able to fix the issue anyway.

    That's the kind of feature I miss in the bugtracking systems (sic) we use. :)

    -dolor

    I was working on an software program. We had over 500 items in the backlog and I made a presentation about how, if we had not one issue filed it would still take a year to get through most of it and how we needed more resources. I was taken off the project because "hey the system is really buggy". The new PM went in to the system and deleted any item in the backlog her and IT didn't understand. She was given an award for "getting the system back on track".

    Captcha-abico abi-go postal on you

  • Gunslinger (unregistered) in reply to Poopy
    Poopy:
    I once did some contract work for a health insurance company building their data warehouse. Since they did not have any bug tracking software, I created a simple Excel file on a shared drive to keep a track of issues/bugs between us 3 ETL developers. It was only supposed to be used by the 3 of us. But once the management got a wind of the awesome bug tracking software we were using, they expanded it to the whole team (20+ people). We had daily occurrences of file access errors, multiple versions and people overwriting other people's changes.

    You should have had it in a VCS, even for just the 3 of you. You failed.

  • Cheong (unregistered)

    I think if she is using Outlook and decided to share her task list, it could have been much more workable.

    But in that way the article may not carry enough WTF-ness to make it appear in here.

  • ben (unregistered) in reply to justme

    This quarter, I demoted a person who did nothing except whine about hundreds of items that no-one else involved with the project actually understood or cared about. I brought someone in who concentrated on identifying and prioritizing the most important issues. Since then we've made a lot of progress and the system is now back on track.

  • Pastychomper (unregistered) in reply to Primo
    Primo :
    .Xlsx files can't contain macros. Most likely it was .Xls (pre 2007 Excel files) otherwise it must have been .Xlsm or .Xlsb.

    .xlsx files can contain buttons, and the buttons can be linked to a macro in a separate sheet, such as a hidden personal.xls(m|b|). IIrc it isn't too difficult to set it up that way.

    That said, given the user's apparent age I'm inclined to agree that an .xls was likely, though I suppose she might have saved it as a .xlsx to avoid future problems with Bug # 65537.

  • Dlareg (unregistered) in reply to Interforostainer

    Maggie was the printer server in "Networks for dummies."

  • justme (unregistered) in reply to ben
    ben:
    This quarter, I demoted a person who did nothing except whine about hundreds of items that no-one else involved with the project actually understood or cared about. I brought someone in who concentrated on identifying and prioritizing the most important issues. Since then we've made a lot of progress and the system is now back on track.
    We were trying to prioritize. But we had those standard "vocal minority" that just "had to have this feature". Add that to the fact that the code was outsourced to an offshore agency, with no review. We had no less than three different email handlers. It was and still is a shaky house of cards.
  • Sitaram (unregistered)

    That's the first time a death was a happy ending!

    Sounds cruel but if you look at it in the context of tdwtf and IT, and don't look beyond into personal lives, I guess it's ok!

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