“Foot in what? ketchup.”

Working the problem

A tale of mismanagement, overly enthusiastic love of buzz words and the Next Big Thing, and hiring good people and making them do stupid things.

The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup. The dove fly. Fly is in sky. The dove drop something. The something on the pig. The pig disgusting. The pig rattle. Rattle with dove. The dove angry. The pig leave. The dove produce. Produce is chicken wing. With wing bark. No Quack.

Thanks to MJ for the pointer. As he said “makes one weep for our kind”.

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2 thoughts on ““Foot in what? ketchup.””

  1. The best explanation I saw on that thread when I read it [when it was first posted] was that in all likelihood, the original project was sold as a package deal to the government on the guarantee that they would use “neural networks”. Given the nature of government budgets, if they hadn’t spend that vast amount of time and effort on something this pointless, all that money they would have spent would have disappeared, and moreover, their budget for the next year would have been slashed because they obviously didn’t need that much money. Since no one would willingly lower their own budget (especially not in government), we end up with cool stories on DailyWTF. Taxpayer dollars for the win.

  2. I’ve found The Daily WTF is a great site to read regularly. They only have a couple posts per day and they’re generally all software-related WTFs. Good stuff, particularly if you’ve worked in business software, since it reflects (and usually magnifies) your experiences with management and bad software.

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