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No other comments. Clearly I am the only person who can upload to The DailyWTF.
It can't br just that I'm frist.
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OTOH, I now have your passport info. ;)
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Not only he safeguarded all the customers' identity documents, he sacrificed his own identity in the process. He's a hero! We need to save private Jack.
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I recommend giving Jack a good solid kicking ...
... er ...
... in the privates...
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Sometimes people who try too hard to unit test are just as bad as people who don't unit test at all.
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I don't see a clear WTF in this other than the company not having a test environment for Jack's "Proof-of-Concept" / learning demo. And the fact that no one took the time to figure out what was wrong with the uploads.
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Huh?
Everything about Jack was a WTF from end to end.
An all too common sort of WTF, but as we've seen over the years here, every episode is just a variation on the theme of rampant incompetence and under-resourcing from the lowliest QA worker or install-monkey to the most exalted CIO.
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""If it works, it ships," was basically the motto" and they changed it to "it ships".
Always bear in mind that, however bad a thing is, it's possible to make it worse. Primum non nocere