Request comes to pilot fish to provide employee data for the company-wide address book. That's no big deal."Time to code: 60 minutes," fish reports. "Affected employees: 8,000."Flash forward two years: Senior executives get new cell phones that should be able to import the company-wide address book. Problem: The phone numbers are formatted for human beings to use, not cell phones.New request: Change address book format so cell phones can dial the phone numbers automatically. "Time to code: 10 minutes to comment out old code and add new code," says fish. "Affected employees: 8,000. Employees who actually need this data: 10."Now it's another eight months later: Senior execs decide they're bored with having the entire company directory on their cell phones.Yet another request: Change format of phone numbers so they're easier for humans to use."Actual time to code: one minute to comment out new code and uncomment old code," fish says. "Reported time to code: one hour. "Flash forward six months. Senior executives get new cell phone toys that can use the company-wide address book. But the telephone numbers are formatted for humans to use, not new cell phone toys..."Keep Sharky afloat by sending me your true tale of IT life at Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!. You'll snag a snazzy Shark shirt if I use it. Comment on today's tale at Sharky's Google+ community, and read thousands of great old tales in the Sharkives.Get Sharky's outtakes from the IT Theater of the Absurd delivered directly to your Inbox. Subscribe now to the Daily Shark Newsletter.

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