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Tales of IT Idiocy

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 23, 2012 @04:56AM from the was-that-wrong? dept.

snydeq writes "IT fight club, dirty dev data, meatball sandwiches — InfoWorld offers nine more tales of brain fail beyond belief. 'You'd think we'd run out of them, but technology simply hasn't advanced enough to take boneheaded users out of the daily equation that is the IT admin's life. Whether it's clueless users, evil admins, or just completely bad luck, Mr. Murphy has the IT department pinned in his sights — and there's no escaping the heartache, headaches, hassles, and hilarity of cluelessness run amok.'"

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Save your clicks! by milbournosphere · 2012-01-23 05:13 · Score: 4, Informative

Just go to http://thedailywtf.com/
They'll have more tales of idiocy, and you won't feel like you need to take a shower afterwards. Seriously, InfoWorld, SIX pages? That's a WTF in itself.
Re:Way more than 9 elsewhere by markkezner · 2012-01-23 05:14 · Score: 5, Informative

This is the link he meant to post.

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Shark Tank. by bmo · 2012-01-23 05:23 · Score: 5, Informative

>only 10 submissions of fail in the TFA.
Someone already mentioned the Daily WTF, so I'll post its little brother.
Always an interesting read.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/sharky
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Re:Way more than 9 elsewhere by antdude · 2012-01-23 08:19 · Score: 3, Informative

http://faildesk.net/ is pretty good too.

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Re:IT idiocy? by HForN · 2012-01-23 08:24 · Score: 3, Informative

http://www.infoworld.com/print/184491/