The Daily WTF

Nearly 15 years ago, fresh out of college, Giuseppe was hired on at a mobile networking company. The company wasn’t a software company, but since they were heavy in networking and could handle all sorts of weird technical problems there, software must basically be the same thing, so they also started producing applications to manage those networks.

It didn’t take them long to discover that “building networks” and “writing software” are different skillsets, and so they did what every company with some room in the budget does: they hire a pack of Highly Paid Consultants to get their project on track.

Giuseppe joined the team just as the budget for consultants ran out. They “knowledge transfered” “everything” in a whirlwind of incomprehensible PowerPoint presentations, and then vanished back into whatever lairs HPCs come from, and left Giuseppe and the other new hires to figure out what was going on.

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