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"My first impression of my predecessor was a positive one," writes Michal Ochman, "he was well-spoken, sharply dressed, and seemed to be an all-around nice guy."

For a ramen-fueled college student, a job offer that actually involves doing the work you're in school to learn and has a paycheck that can't be beat flipping burgers is a wonderful score. For Ted, that score came from a company run by alumni from his school that gave out pretty plum gigs to top students.

After weeks, months, or even years of setting up and preparing to sell, it’s always exciting to get those few customers. Depending on the venture, it may not be worth popping open a bottle of Champagne, but no matter how small the sale, one can’t help but take a few moments to pause and smile before struggling to get that next batch of sales.

  Wout van Poppel remarked, "Yesterday's newspaper didn't really contain any interesting news, but at least the photo captions were interesting."

"The way in which project requirements meet developers at our company is a WTF in and of itself," writes Kevin, "but suffice it to say that a certain developer was tasked with writing a Windows Service that would periodically review a list of files from the network and purge them if necessary."

"The system is down!" cried the voice at the end of the phone. "We've run out of numbers!"

"One of our sites is partially maintained by a third-party vendor with developers based out of Kerbleckistan," writes Nathan, "they'll sometimes 'forget' to use version control and instead just write directly to production. This has naturally caused some frustrating 'lost feature' problems when they remember to use source control, and somehow this all falls on me to mitigate."

"I spotted this at the Airport of Valencia in Spain," wrote Peter P, "looks like they have quite weird temperatures there..."

"We're replacing an old PHP website," writes Roggo, "to examine the existing functionality and test the install, we were given access to the live site. Out of curiosity, I had a look at the code that we are soon to replace. The first file I opened was called mug_password_forgotten.php; I was greeted by line 8:"

Mr. Kashmere (from John A)Mr. Kashmere is one of our middle school teachers. There had been a merger of two schools, and everything had changed: administration, policies, procedures... and technology. One of the new technologies they had picked up as a small school was Google Apps, including Gmail.

Ever since being hired, Adam had spent most of his time working on new projects.

"I saw this on my way home from work," Daniel Moore writes, "thank goodness CVS is doing something about Maryland's crippling shortage of whooping cough!"

"Lucky me," writes Joe from the Submit-To-WTF Visual Studio Add-In, "I just inherited a home-grown system information application."