In a shameless attempt to revive this old, dusty place, I want to know what your crowning moment of WTFery at the workplace you've experienced. I'll start
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Complain about turnover, and how departments don't cooperate with each other, especially not disparate groups of engineers or any engineers and User Experience
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I've been quite fortunate ever since I left what we referred to as 'The Bad Place', which was so bad that it got its own DailyWTF article.
I think the biggest WTF I've seen in my current gig is from our PCI DSS auditor. In order to do a security scan of our system, we have to have it respond on the bare IP address (normally we return 444 for anything that doesn't match our hostname, as a small extra layer of security). So in order to be certified for PCI compliance we need to manually reduce how secure our system is, then turn it back up after the scan.
But I'm sure that's about the least WTFery people have had to do for PCI compliance.
Sadly, no. the Incident with him driving me to a panic attack got him written up, and his firing privileges revoked.
I was... insufferably happy when I found out that he was leaving, and even happier when he left two full days before his official last day. (and super stoked when I was told to disable his network account. Legal permission to hack his email and recover/reset passwords for the external web applications we had used (probably without full permission of the higher ups)? HELL YES.)
Dev team orders shiny new Mac Minis to make sure we run on their state-of-the-art hardware. Shiny new Mac Minis come with the only point-release of the latest OS that can run on them pre-installed. IT grabs Minis, installs the corporately-blessed OS version on them. Said version is a full release number below what the Minis can run. Minis are now bricks. No problem, hit the recovery partition process. Apple's recovery download server is not whitelisted. (Double fun because installing on a VM from the recovery partition is an upcoming feature, and we've been requesting whitelisting for it for *months*.) Minis are not just bricks, but to un-brick them requires taking them to the nearest Starbucks.
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Apiece.
Per new contractor.
I hope they have fun next year...
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And loss prevention require the laptops be permanently attached to the desks.
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I think the biggest WTF I've seen in my current gig is from our PCI DSS auditor. In order to do a security scan of our system, we have to have it respond on the bare IP address (normally we return 444 for anything that doesn't match our hostname, as a small extra layer of security). So in order to be certified for PCI compliance we need to manually reduce how secure our system is, then turn it back up after the scan.
But I'm sure that's about the least WTFery people have had to do for PCI compliance.
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I guess not...
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I was... insufferably happy when I found out that he was leaving, and even happier when he left two full days before his official last day. (and super stoked when I was told to disable his network account. Legal permission to hack his email and recover/reset passwords for the external web applications we had used (probably without full permission of the higher ups)? HELL YES.)
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Shiny new Mac Minis come with the only point-release of the latest OS that can run on them pre-installed.
IT grabs Minis, installs the corporately-blessed OS version on them. Said version is a full release number below what the Minis can run.
Minis are now bricks.
No problem, hit the recovery partition process.
Apple's recovery download server is not whitelisted. (Double fun because installing on a VM from the recovery partition is an upcoming feature, and we've been requesting whitelisting for it for *months*.)
Minis are not just bricks, but to un-brick them requires taking them to the nearest Starbucks.
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What year was this?
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