If they still don't listen after you get a doctor's note, call OSHA. Government fines should get their attention.
crystal_mephistophel
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RE: Facilities Mismanagement
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When Self-Repairing is Not A Desired Behavior
Self-repairing parking meters tell you they're broken, which supposedly entitles you to free parking if you report it, but some of them have been clearing the error codes automatically, so you come back to a meter which says a) it's working fine, b) you didn't pay for parking, you thief, and a parking ticket for your troubles.
Edit:The comments on this blog post are where you learn that calling to report the broken meter is supposed to entitle you to free parking.
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RE: Financial Times "Preferred Renewal"
@morbiuswilters said:
If your email account isn't secure, then almost nothing is. Most sites send password resets to an email account. Your mailing address is of little consequence compared to what could be compromised. It's probably the most secure way of reaching you.
Mostly agreed, except this URL won't expire until/unless I pony up their exorbitant resub fee (which I won't as they always come up with a better offer as you get closer to expiry) or the "offer" expires. A password reset URL expires pretty quickly, as you're likely hitting your email as soon as you click the reset button. You're absolutely right that my mailing address is trivial compared to what they could have exposed, which is why that wasn't my main WTF.
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RE: Financial Times "Preferred Renewal"
@dtech said:
Would it from another computer/IP? Maybe you could view it because your had a session where you already had authenticated in.
I never entered a password at all. The original unobfuscated URL was simply linked in an email they sent to my Yahoo account.
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Financial Times "Preferred Renewal"
If I'm preferred, that can only mean regular subscribers are paying a hefty premium just for home delivery
Embedded is another, maybe worse/maybe not WTF. Notice I obfuscated the URL. The original URL would give allow you to view my address (but not my CC information), without any password or other confirmation.
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RE: Another plez send hte codez.
Yawn, another idiot asking somebody else to do his work for him. TRWTF is the OP in that thread recommending that you repurpose a currently unused comments field to store formatted data in.
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RE: Here's a fun one from a potential client
@ServZero said:
the code is genious so there will be some benefit to working on it.
There's no typo here, he's just trying to create a new word because he's never seen anything like this before.
It's obvious that he means the only reason the code works is because there is a genie who uses his magic to make the code do what it's supposed to do.
The benefit of working with such code is obviously that you get the one remaining wish from the genie (The first two wishes were for the code to work and the original programmer wishing to get as far away from this job as possible).
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RE: A WTF or not a WTF? That is the question
I don't think MUMPS itself is a WTF, I think trying to use it "creatively" leads to the WTFs we've seen here. It has some WTF-ish specifications, such as the arbitrary date epoch and no mathematical order of operations, but these shouldn't be too bad to work around, as long as you're aware of them.
For example in "A Case Of The Mumps", they had a system where:
@A Case Of The Mumps said:
All MUMPS code was stored in a Global Array named ^ROUTINES. The only code that existed outside of this array was stored in “Application Startup” codefiles, each containing a single line of code: X(^ROUTINES("XSTARTGB")). The only difference between each file was the last two characters, or, the application identifier.
That kind of system is a real WTF, but it could just as easily have been implemented in Perl or VBScript.
And in "Avoiding MUMPS", the only WTF was that the alleged "lead developer" didn't know the difference between compiled and interpreted languages. More of a business WTF than a technical WTF.
That said, MUMPs does seem like a language I would learn to hate even more than Visual Basic if I were forced to use it for too long, but if you're just being paid for one stint working with it, I'd say go for it, as it will at least look interesting on your resume.