CAN-(ACCIDENTALLY)-SPAM (1)
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In early 2004, John was living it up in Argentina at a startup working on a VCI product. For those unfamiliar with Value Chain Integration, in layman's terms it synergizes backward overflow while optimizing cardinal grammeters in addition to allowing customers to parabolize slithy toves at the least embiggoned cost possible. The software's development was handled in Argentina, though there were offices around the globe. They were just starting to pull together a real, live ...
Best of the Sidebar: The Exemption Pass (1)
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Originally posted to the sidebar by "compaqdrew"... At my old public high school, the District (maybe even the State) mandated that every class must have a final exam, and it must account for 20% of the student's grade. Of course, this fails to explain how it is even possible to give a final in, say, Vocal Music. The teachers hated it and even the principal sympathized, and thus was born the Exemption System. I should ...
Lyle Can Do Anything Better Than You (1)
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Lyle was displeased. Despite all he had going for him — being the most handsome guy in the office, the smartest guy on the team, having the best all-terrain tires throughout the whole department, and trouncing the competition in a recent laser tag game, his team didn't seem to work well together. Clearly, Lyle wasn't the problem. He was the best manager, the best leader, hell, the best human being there had ever been. And ...
We Burned the Poop (9)
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Erik was in his robe, brushing his teeth and getting ready for bed when the doorbell rang. As he walked downstairs to see who it was, he was thinking that it was odd to have a late-night guest, especially on such a rainy night. Standing at the door was his boss, holding a large cardboard box. Both he and the box were soaked, his eyes sad and his lip quivering. He stood there, motionless for ...
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James Johnson said:
Jason, this sounds really familiar :) shitski!
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Peter said:
No matter how much you want to, never use expletive laden error messages in the heat of the moment.
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Stephen said:
Something _very_ similar happened to me some years ago. Doctor's practices all around the country ended up with some very interesting ICD10 entries...
CodeSOD: Encrypted For Your Security (7)
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"I have been helping a guy with a project," seebs wrote, "I wasn't originally involved, but when the three-month project was six-months late, I got called in to start on the other half. I still remember the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when the developer told me "all fields are varchar for simplicity...'" "There's a database of users who can log in. Now, we all know that you always store the password ...
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nandi said:
I still remember the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when the developer told me "all fields are varchar for simplicity...'" - reminded me of a project where it was IMPERATIVE that bools were stored as the string values "0" and "1".
Not in the Mood (3)
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Updates to the decades-old internally-developed bank management application had gone as smoothly as they could. No major issues moving from text screens on dumb terminals to text screens on Windows 3.1 to a GUI frontend in Windows 95. And now it was time for another major update; to give it the best GUI ever to appear in a decades-old internally-developed bank management application! And thanks to some good planning, respect for standard software development procedures, ...
Doing the Heavy Lifting (22)
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After six years, Todd D. couldn't take the tedium anymore — his company refused to change with the times, and Todd wanted something more engaging. Seeing an opening at a publishing company, it sounded like the ideal change. He'd be going from a big software company to a more progressive publishing company with a software department; a good place for him to show his chops and actually make a difference. He aced his interview, as ...
Stupid Secretary WTF - The Daily WTF (7)
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Originally posted to the sidebar by "snoofle"... This morning, I had to deal with one of our HR secretaries, and it was déjà vu. When I first started to work for this place I was in HR. I had passed my interviews and was doing paperwork as part of the hiring process. The HR secretary and I had the following conversation: Her: Can I have the phone number of the consulting company where you worked ...
Tales from the Interview: Hot, Hot, Hot!, The Last Interview, and A Wrinkle in Time (9)
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Hot, Hot, Hot! (from Rob Sutherland) In the mid 80s, a headhunter found me a good lead for a coding position at a (now-defunct) auto manufacturer. When I showed up to the headhunter's office, a very large and very scary looking woman took me out to the cafeteria so she could smoke during the interview. Different times, the 80s. I could tell right away that she wasn't impressed with me. She lit up a cigarette, ...
A Software Problem, A Marketing Solution (11)
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For Jason R., it was an exciting time. His company was trying to break into the telecom market with a new product that they'd get to build almost entirely from scratch. The only part that he wasn't excited about was that the major customers had very specific requirements that his team would have to meticulously follow. In this case, some bigtime POTS operators demanded that all servers must come from Sun, and any databases must ...
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Chad said:
This happens ALL THE TIME when U.S. automotive companies are involved.
Error'd: Packing Done Right (24)
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Submitted anonymously, one of our readers' companies uses a lot of CMOS batteries from Dell. To save time and money, they asked for fifty spare batteries instead of having them delivered individually. Dell was happy to oblige, sending one giant box with fifty small boxes inside; each with one neatly-packed CMOS battery. I can't help but be reminded of a similar incident from the past. Brought to you by the Non-WTF Job Board:
What Do You Want on your Tombstone? (1)
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In an effort to gain marketshare, Initrode quietly built a new product — a network management appliance that out-featured and out-performed the competition's nearest equivalents. The R&D, testing, production, infrastructure, trade shows, demos, trials, last-minute feature additions, sales, and late nights had taken their toll on Chris W. and his colleagues, but they had built something they were genuinely proud of in the end. The launch went smoothly from a technical perspective, though initial sales ...
The Dream Customer (44)
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"It's the strangest thing — I can't connect to the wireless anymore. I can still use the Microsoft but not the email." The Microsoft was a key phrase that let Jay L. know that the woman on the line wasn't exactly what you'd call a power user. "I'll be happy to help. First, can you tell me what router you're connecting to? "..." "Miss?" "I'm not having a problem with anything other than the wireless." ...
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Ingo said:
LOL
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AJ said:
If you've ever lived in a crowded apartment building you've seen your share of default SSIDs: linksys, wireless, wlan, 2wire... Or, if you've ever lived near Alex, "alexsprivatenetworkbiotch."
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CJ said:
Ahh, more tech support flashbacks.
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Michael Jervis said:
This one is an absolute classic!
Error'd: Connect Over What!? (8)
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No thanks, MSN Messenger, I'd rather not. (submitted by Kamil K.) What are you going to do, Mick M.? Temperature on the outer layer of the sun: 6,000° C (11,000° F). Temperature of Nick's video card: 4,294,967,295° C (2,386,092,923° F). Yeah, I agree with this thing's diagnosis — replacing the fan might be a good start. James S. was a fan of the Technical Difficulties when they were underground, before they sold out and went ...
That's Not Part of Our Testing (8)
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It wasn't often that Marcus saw his boss Harry scrambling to reach the mute button on his phone, simultaneously erupting into convulsing laughter. Between gasps for breath, he heard Harry say "bestiality" only to start laughing even harder. Marcus, Harry, and company had recently gotten a contract to do security analysis for a mid-sized document management firm that we'll call Initrode. Their primary contact was Brad — a well-intentioned but scatterbrained (read: borderline incompetent) employee. ...
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CJ said:
"I am the network admin"... rofl, anyone who's ever worked tech support knows that classic phrase. :-)
CodeSOD: The Lesser Date (4)
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Generally when Jared has to compare two dates, he'll do something simple like "if (date1 < date2) ..." A contractor no longer under his company's employ had his own unique approach... public short TheLesserDate(string DateFrom, string DateTo) { try { string delim = "/"; string[] cons = DateFrom.Split(delim.ToCharArray()); int intDateFrom = Convert.ToInt32(cons[2]) * 10000 + Convert.ToInt32(cons[1]) * 100 + Convert.ToInt32(cons[0]); delim = "/"; cons = DateTo.Split(delim.ToCharArray()); int intDateTo = Convert.ToInt32(cons[2]) * 10000 + Convert.ToInt32(cons[1]) * ...
WTF-U's Typing Test (6)
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How fast can you type? Probably pretty fast, if you're reading this site. If you're like me, 294 words per minute*. Honest! I just timed myself! *294WPM is based on repeatedly typing the word "a" for a minute straight. I had 100% accuracy with the "a"s, but sometimes hit the spacebar twice by accident. Not only can I type pretty fast, but most of the time I'm not even looking at the keybiurd or the ...
Nepotism Trumps Interview - The Daily WTF (12)
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Simon had a great job. Every day he was playing with cool hardware and software, he liked his colleagues, and the pay... well... OK, he was underpaid. Vastly underpaid. While his company made good on their promise to give him a raise once he got a C certification, it was an insulting two figures. Simon would've felt less insulted if they'd literally slapped him in the face (instead of figuratively). It didn't take him long ...
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@Eingy - Thanks for reminding me about this site.
That Would've Been an Option Too (19)
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Wilhelm isn't really much of a smiler. Nor was he much of a laugher. Nor a crier, scowler, or high-fiver. He seemed to only be capable of two emotions: "emotionless" or "asleep." He's of the opinion that programming has gotten too easy in recent years, not like it was back in his day when programmers were programmers. A time before garbage collectors, transactions, protected memory, fancy IDEs with fancy integrated debuggers — nowadays developers have ...
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Steven said:
The story is a little long-winded if you're not a developer, but the punchline is worth it.
