The Daily WTF

Sergio works for a regional public administration. About a decade ago, the national government passed some laws or made some regulations, and then sent a software package to all the regional administrations. This software package was built to aggregate reports from the local databases into a single, unified, consistent interface on a national website.

Of course, each regional group did things their own way, so the national software package needed to be customized to work. Also, each regional administration had their own reporting package which already did some of this, and which they liked better, because they already knew how it worked. In the case of Sergio’s employer, even more important: their organization’s logo was prominently displayed.

Of course, there was also the plain old stubborness of an organization being told they have to do something when they really don’t want to do that thing. In that situation, organizations have

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