The Daily WTF

When Steve‘s employer went hunting for a new customer relationship management system (CRM), they had some requirements. A lot of them were around the kind of vendor support they’d get. Their sales team weren’t the most technical people, and the company wanted to push as much routine support off to the vendor as possible.

But they also needed a system that was extensible. Steve’s company had many custom workflows they wanted to be able to execute, and automated marketing messages they wanted to construct, and so wanted a CRM that had an easy to use API.

“No worries,” the vendor sales rep said, “we’ve had a RESTful API in our system for years. It’s well tested and reliable. It’s JSON based.”

The purchasing department ground their way through the purchase order and eventually they started migrating to the new CRM system. And it fell to Steve to start learning the

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