The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Printer Futility

by Erik Gern in Feature Articles on 2013-11-14

Like a ninja in the night, Hanz M., AKA Hanzo, stalks across Hesse University’s Dresden campus. The go-to man in the IT department, he fixes the messes that others leave behind. This is one of his stories.

"This is why we can’t have nice things," Gertrude said. She and her subordinate, Hanzo, sat near the IT office phone, on speaker and on hold. "The administration picked the one manufacturer without on-site tech support."

Interesting Year Length Logic

by Erik Gern in CodeSOD on 2013-11-04

Glidder’s associate Anastasia, one of the resident DBAs at Big Blue Box, perpetually ran on Anastasia Time. She always seemed to work late, rushing away for coffee or other, White Rabbit-esque errands.

Eventually, Anastasia moved on, and Glidder got promoted to DBA. His first assignment was a year-old bug filed by Accounting: two reports showed different age groups for the same file.