The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Coffee Beats Wireless

by Dan J. in Feature Articles on 2014-02-20

Some people just can't function without their coffee. Jane had the rare distinction, in JD's opinion, of being a person who functioned pretty poorly even with her coffee—and she always seemed to have a mug in hand. Today was no different: she had her signature travel mug halfway to her mouth when she caught sight of JD approaching her cube with a replacement keyboard. Her eyes narrowed when she caught site of the cord wrapped haphazardly around the big black rectangle.

"I am not using a wired keyboard!"

The Midnight Cowboy Coder

by Dan J. in CodeSOD on 2014-02-04

The ball had just dropped, and Eric was taking the stairs to the fifteenth floor two at a time. Initech's New Year's party was in full swing, but it Eric wasn't simply in a hurry to join the festivities. He'd been watching the support queue all night, and at midnight the new monitoring program lit up like Times Square. The program was supposed to be simple: The new security cameras Initech had installed in their headquarters dumped video files in a folder every hour, and the powers-that-be wanted to make sure they were working without being obliged to keep an obssessive eye on the filesystem. Eric's colleague Ted was put in charge of solving the problem before the party, and he'd dumped his solution onto a production server in the nick of time. All had been well... for the first hour.

Eric burst through the balcony doors, out of breath. Around him, fellow Initechnicians were pouring champagne and trying to remember the inscrutable lyrics to Auld Lang Syne. Ted had attached himself to a gaggle of salespeople in sharp blue suits, one of whom was handing around cigars. Before Ted could lay hands on a lighter, Eric clasped his shoulder.