Radio WTF: Confidence

by Lorne Kates in Feature Articles on 2019-04-01

Radio WTF Presents!

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Welcome back to Radio WTF. This week, we learn of the power of confidence.

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24 comments - Last comment @ 2019-04-24

We Sell Bonds!

by Lorne Kates in Feature Articles on 2018-02-01

We Sell Bonds!

The quaint, brick-faced downtown office building was exactly the sort of place Alexis wanted her first real programming job to be. She took a moment to just soak in the big picture. The building's façade oozed history, and culture. The busy downtown crowd flowed around her like a tranquil stream. And this was where she landed right out of college-- if this interview went well.

Alexis went inside, got a really groovy start-up vibe from the place. The lobby slash waiting room slash employee lounge slash kitchen slash receptionist desk was jam packed full of boxes of paperwork waiting to be unpacked and filed (once a filing cabinet was bought). The walls, still the color of unpainted drywall, accented with spats of plaster and glue-tape. Everything was permeated with chaotic beginnings and untapped potential.

77 comments - Last comment @ 2023-08-28

Radio WTF: Space for Guests

by Lorne Kates in Feature Articles on 2017-04-03

Radio WTF Presents!

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Welcome back to Radio WTF. This week, we visit a two kilometer wide mushroom in space, and find out WTF happens when unexpected guests arrive...

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19 comments - Last comment @ 2017-04-07

Radio WTF: A Day of Mei

by Lorne Kates in Feature Articles on 2016-04-01

Radio WTF Presents!

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Direct Download: ADayOfMei.mp3

Starring (in order of appearance) Devin Sweeny... as Mei
Alex Papadimoulis... as Nathan
Lorne Kates... as Luke
Patrick Roach... as Phillip
Remy Porter... as Samuel

31 comments - Last comment @ 2018-03-05

Radio WTF Presents: Quantity of Service

by Lorne Kates in Feature Articles on 2015-04-01

Radio WTF Presents!

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Today's episode: "Quantity of Service", adapted for radio by Lorne Kates, from a submission by Lyfe

120 comments - Last comment @ 2017-02-03

Make It Work

by Lorne Kates in Feature Articles on 2014-04-01

Update 2014-04-02 10:07pm (EDT): direct downloads are now hosted on thedailywtf.com instead of Soundcloud. Break out your decoder rings, mix up a glass of Ovaltine, and don't touch that dial! It's time for...

Radio WTF Presents!

Today's episode: "Make It Work", adapted for radio by Lorne Kates, from a submission by Mitch G.

118 comments - Last comment @ 2023-08-09

Change Request

by Lorne Kates in Feature Articles on 2014-03-18

Yet another high-priority support request buzzed into John's phone, just like the hundred before it, and the hundred sure to come. There wasn't any point reading the email. It'd just tell him what he already knew.

"eCommerce clients can't connect to the FTP server since this morning," John announced, entering the lair of Clayton, the company's Network Guru (self titled). "Is something wrong with the FTP server?"

"Nope."

Then silence. Clayton didn't look up from his monitor. His slicked hair shone with the glow of a thousand server-rack blinks.

62 comments - Last comment @ 2014-03-29

Gone Phishing

by Lorne Kates in Feature Articles on 2013-11-29

Juan's job wouldn't have been so bad if not for the rampart stupidity. Stupidity was responsible for deciding a 25k+ employee corporation only needed a skeleton-crewed IT department. And that same level of stupidity was spreading across the entire C-level of the org chart.

The IT office, such as it was-- a single converted room in the basement-- was its usual sparsely populated self, made up of just Juan, and his few remaining coworkers. Everyone else had either been caught by the last swing of the budget axe, or had seen it coming and had bailed. The team that remained was a tight mix of competent enough to be seen as valuable; hard-working enough to be taken advantage enough; and skilled enough to leave, but too lazy to do so.

137 comments - Last comment @ 2013-12-23