Corporate IdiocyComedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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Obfuscation comes with the territorySimilarly, one of our remote offices had intermittent connectivity problems, and the provider insisted it was our equipment. As our IT engineers could clearly see it was not, they kept at the provider.
... And the provider subsequently called to again deny it was their equipment, only to be told, amid gales of laughter, that our engineers had seen their tech replacing parts in the building's datacomm cabinet just before the problems cleared up completely.
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kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 10:44,
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