The Daily WTF

It was Paramdeep’s first corporate IT job. He was assigned a mentor, Rajiv, who would train him up on the application he would be supporting: a WebSphere-based Java application full of Enterprise Java Beans.

Paramdeep reserved time with Rajiv in Outlook, arranging to meet at Rajiv’s cubicle for half an hour. Rajiv accepted. At the agreed-upon time, Paramdeep walked over with a notebook and pencil in hand, intent on copying down all the pertinent information he would hear. When he reached Rajiv’s desk, however, the elder developer waved Paramdeep away from his spare chair before he had a chance to sit down.

“Sorry, more urgent stuff came up,” Rajiv said, turning back to his monitor. “The best way to learn about the application is to dive right in. I’ll give you one of the simpler tasks. All you need to do is write a bean that’ll call a Sybase

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