The Daily WTF

In our industry, we all know that managers cause problems when they try to, well, manage. This invariably causes us to get frustrated. Sometimes when we rebel and try to force them to do the right thing, we are the ones that pay for it with our jobs. Sometimes, they get impatient at our mortal lack of $Deity-level skills to make the magic happen fast enough for them, and we pay for that with our jobs as well.

Occasionally, even though it seems as though managers never pay for their mistakes, Codethulu smiles upon us and gives us a glimpse of a Utopian world…

Back in the mid 1990s, Dennis worked for privately-held Web Accessible Network Kernal, Inc. (WANKCO), a small manufacturer of large automated network test equipment. WANKCO had a couple dozen employees and had not yet developed any big-company policies. Specifically, they did not have the one where

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