I’m flabbergasted! I’ve been trying to find context for this word from the moment I heard it and I couldn’t pray enough for a better context.

About 4 months ago somebody had the brilliant idea to create an internal telephone directory. Whoever has written a line of code knows that a telephone directory is one of the most basic, mundane and stupid applications one can be burdened to create. As usual I was instructed to create the application and it was ready on the day. Today it was launched. Near the page header I added three links to other applications (no porn, really!) I’ve created. These were there from the start since I just copy/pasted the header.

I will not go into the details of all the discussions, fuss and panic that came bundled with the telephone directory, but take a second to think about 4 months to launch an internal telephone directory application. This afternoon as soon as the e-mail with the telephone directory link was sent, the smelly bastard went to our manager (the boogie man) complaining about the headers. “Please go and tell him that baby Mike was naughty!” Instead of confronting me directly a message was passed to a colleague of mine to remove the links. I’m not exaggerating when I say that our offices are less than 10 meters away, yet the message needs to be passed on to me. I obviously refused to remove the links without a valid reason other than spite on my work. As soon as I returned from the loo, my boss this time literally came shouting at me to remove the links. I wasn’t even officially notified to remove them and I get shouted at. Hey man these links have been there for 4 bloody months and nobody gave a damn. What’s wrong with linking to internal applications now? These are simple work applications no Iraqi missile bombs.

P.S. Sorry to anyone who didn't understand a damn about what I'm talking about - I'm not usually like that but I needed to spit it out.