The Daily WTF

Alexander doesn’t usually ask “why are you hiring for this position?” during an interview. But when a small public library is paying your rather high contracting rate, one can’t help but wonder. Fortunately, the library offered their reasoning without Alexander asking: “We hired a new staff member, so we need a programmer to add them to our home page.”

Alexander assumed that he was dealing with a client who couldn’t figure out how to navigate their CMS, and scheduled an afternoon to do the work. It turned out to be a bit more complicated.

The site had an “email a staff member” form. Select a staffer from a drop down, type into a text box, and hit send. Not a single staff member had ever received an email through the interface, but they all agreed it was a good feature to have, even if no one used it.

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