Did you ever hear those computer jokes where people try to use the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder, or else people inserting more than one disk at a time in the disk drive? Well listen what happened today at work and keep in mind that I work in an IT department.

About two weeks ago we decided to buy a website monitoring service because the company website was crashing frequently. A colleague of mine was instructed to test the product and about a week ago all tests where completed successfully during office hours. This morning our boss instructed my colleague to go to work today after midnight to check whether the same product works after midnight. The motive is that he is thinking that the website monitor 'watchman' might not be working at that hour.

These instructions were given by an IT boss, oh God!!! Do you realise the insanity of my workplace? This is supposed to be the age where automation is taken for granted. I feel suicidal upon hearing these things.