Crowning moment of WTF...

Mar 20, 2016 16:00

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 ( Read more... )

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azurelunatic March 21 2016, 10:34:50 UTC
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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jamoche March 21 2016, 16:18:18 UTC
19 invites to the same all-hands meeting, without the "don't want responses" flag set. That admin's email must be overflowing by now.

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azurelunatic March 21 2016, 20:01:51 UTC
That's the sort of mistake that happens once.

Apiece.

Per new contractor.

I hope they have fun next year...

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fragbert March 21 2016, 12:56:42 UTC
That one time in 1996 when all upper management were issued brand-new laptops.

And loss prevention require the laptops be permanently attached to the desks.

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wibbble March 21 2016, 13:45:33 UTC
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.

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hub_ March 21 2016, 13:56:06 UTC
But did the CIO fire the boss? That's the outcome that should have happened.

I guess not...

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jecook March 21 2016, 14:24:09 UTC
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.)

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jamoche March 21 2016, 16:27:37 UTC
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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azurelunatic March 21 2016, 19:58:13 UTC
Holy mother of fuck.

What year was this?

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jamoche March 21 2016, 20:03:38 UTC
2012 or 13, because that's when we added recovery partition. At that point our manager decreed that all hardware came directly to us, unopened.

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azurelunatic March 21 2016, 20:05:42 UTC
Which would probably explain the subsequent TopTrack scenario...

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