Who, Me? The world of work can sometimes drive IT pros to drink, leaving them more likely to make the sort of mistakes that The Register celebrates each week in Who, Me? It’s our reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making a mess at work, and cleaning up afterwards to the best of your ability.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Sherman" who once worked as a senior software engineer for a Dutch internet service provider.

The developers tried to debug the watercooler …

"Even though there was a never-ending backlog of new development initiatives, code deployment was the limiting factor in this company," he told Who, Me?

Bureaucracy was to blame for the bottleneck: Company policy required the chief security officer and chief technology officer to approve every c

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