The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Abusing the FTP

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2011-02-22

When any new employee is hired at Repinski’s Furniture Express, on their first day, he or she receives a personalized “grand tour” of the main headquarters given by none other than Mr. Repinski – the company’s owner and CEO. During his tour, Adam was introduced to the financing group, the warehouse supervisor and his crew, the ladies who ran most of the front office, and other supporting personnel. After meeting with the PC technician, Mr. Repinski showed Adam the place where he would be spending much of his time - the server room.

Knowing that the Junior System Administrator position would involve Active Directory, Windows Server maintenance, some light SQL Server database administration, Adam expected that it would be a great way to learn the ropes. After all, being fresh out of college with only some help desk experience under his belt, he needed all the real world experience he could get!

Number 15

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2011-02-21

With the addition of Josh M., he was now officially the 15th developer in the past 7 years to work on the small company’s HUGE PHP/MySQL web app.

The whole site seemed to be a WTF, and yet one part stuck out like a sore WTF-thumb. It was the 'static text' table.