The Daily WTF

Skill which you don’t use regularly can get rusty. It might not take too much to get the rust off, and remind yourself of what you’re supposed to be doing, but the process of remembering what you’re supposed to do can get a little… damaging.

Lesli spent a big chunk of her career doing IT for an insurance company. They were a conservative company in a conservative industry, which meant they were still rolling out new mainframes in the early 2000s. “Big iron” was the future for insurance.

Until it wasn’t, of course. Lesli was one of the “x86 kids”, part of the team that started with desktop support and migrated into running important services on commodity hardware.

The “big iron” mainframe folks, led by Erwin, watched the process with bemusement. Erwin had joined the company back when they had installed their first S/370 mainframe, and had a low opinion

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