I'm going to steal that line. ;-)

This is a big, well-known company, and there is a story related to it on the /. front page right now.
The problems:

- No network documentation whatsover.

- IT dept fragmented into multiple competing divisions, and each division was
  sub-divided by device type. So there were no *network* engineers, there were
"firewall engineers", "router/switch" engineers, etc, even though everything
was interconnected. So no single network engineer could solve a problem, it
always required dragging people from multiple divisions/depts into an issue.

- Workload imposed on one person that should have been distributed across three.

- Engineers not allowed to make any engineering decisions whatsoever.
    Nonsensical procedures mandated by management wasted huge amounts of time and
    staff, but no engineers were allowed input into the system.

- Change control procedures that made it impossible to get the job done *and*
    follow mandated procedures. Everything required many levels of approval,
    but the approvers couldn't be bothered to approve in a timely manner,
    (if at all), and 50% of the time the change was never fully approved, so the
    only way to get the work done was to do it anyway and run the risk of getting
    caught in a change audit.

- Clueless managers that believed every IT person is interchangeable and anyone
    can be dropped into any role, regardless of education, experience,
    certifications, or interest. e.g a network engineer with multiple Cisco
    certifications was expected to be a software developer, and a Linux admin,
    and not even allowed to work on Cisco equipment.

I turned in my resignation several months ago.

At at previous job we found some idiot had done this. We didn't know this until troubleshooting a complaint of not being able to reach a certain portion of the Internet. It really isn't a security issue, because a corporate network will first route to it's internal networks, and only if the destination is not internal will it fall back to the default route to the Internet. The default route will always have a shorter mask, therefore it will be the last chosen. The biggest problem is that doing this stupid trick means you have blackholed a portion of the Internet from your own users.

Yes, it is just a series of tubes. ;-)

...all singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant!

+1
I switched to Libre Office long ago, and can't find any reason anyone would still use OpenOffice.

Arrghh!!
I misread that post.
Scratch my response.

I have two parachutes here.
One has malfunctioned 1 time in 100 jumps.
The other has malfunctioned 5 times in 1000 jumps.
Which parachute do you want to use?

Go take a course in statistics.

I picked PERCENTAGES.
That is how you compare crime rates between countries with different populations.
Picking absolute numbers is meaningless unless the two countries have the same size population.

Oh really?

Assault victims:
  UK 2.8%
  US 1.2%

Rape victims:
  UK 0.9%
  US 0.4%

Total crime victims:
  UK 26.4%
  US 21.2%

Ref: http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/United-Kingdom/United-States/Crime

Agreed. I have Internet-only from Comcast *and* it includes native IPv6.
The last time I had cable TV was 2001, and that was only because I worked for AT&T Broadband and it was an employee perk.

Here is the list of real pilots who defected with their aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cold_War_pilot_defections

The article was delightfully free of actual info, but I assume they are just adding this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_oximetry

All true, and more; I opted to start working from home to avoid morons in adjacent cubicles who thought it was appropriate to do things like: 1. Hold impromptu meetings in the adjacent aisle with everyone talking as loudly as possible, 2. Make personal phone calls with the phone on *speaker*. And then they would get PO'd at *me* for objecting.

And in addition, at home I have use of my own double-width rack of networking gear where I can replicate issues, and test proposed changes. Every instance I've seen of attempts to set up labs at the office always result in gear being commandeered for "emergency" deployment, or "temporary" use, never to be seen again. The result is the only thing left in the company "lab" is broken junk.