If you can't even believe that kludgy-shit exists out there in the world, then it sounds like you've led a sheltered existence climbing within a very large engineering department of a well-funded company.
Do you perhaps have any friends at companies which hired overseas contractors? Or system-admins working at smaller companies or nonprofits? They're more-likely to have fun stories. I myself remember a university department with a master all_students.xls file on a shared drive (with way too many columns and macros in it) that had to be periodically restored from snapshots every time it got corrupted...
Do you perhaps have any friends at companies which hired overseas contractors? Or system-admins working at smaller companies or nonprofits? They're more-likely to have fun stories. I myself remember a university department with a master all_students.xls file on a shared drive (with way too many columns and macros in it) that had to be periodically restored from snapshots every time it got corrupted...