5. Musical PCs

At the same company, one department that liked to play musical PCs. The
manager of the department wanted to make sure that he and his top
people always had the best computers in the department. Therefore,
whenever they would hire a new person (which usually happened once or
twice a week), they would order a computer for the new employee.

The new computer might have been ordered for the new employee, but it
always went to the department’s manager (even if it was identical to
the computer he already had). The manager’s computer went to the
department supervisor, and his computer went to the assistant
supervisor. From there, employees in the department received a computer
based on their seniority.

Everybody in the department stored everything on the PC’s local hard
drive. This meant that every time a new employee was hired, every PC in
the department had to be backed up so that the data could be restored
to a new PC. When you consider that there were dozens of employees in
the department and that moves happened at least once a week, you can
begin to see how many IT resources were wasted.


that's so ridiculous I have a hard time believing it's true, but lulz nonetheless

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-stupid-user-stories-the-madness-persists/2605?tag=content;selector-fd-river

a power strip he sounds like a dummy.

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