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My favorite was the newly hired account manager for a web dev company whom the CEO found rummaging in the supply cabinet, looking for some URLs to show clients.

https://www.askamanager.org/2021/10/the-controversial-calcul... (#19)

> looking for some URLs to show clients.

What's wrong showing URLs to clients ? /s

Happened to the thttpd author some time back.

https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html

I really like this one because it’s a valid question about an odd thing that would take a while to answer properly:

> I have a huge text on my sat nav in my car where, among other things, your email address can be seen?

> Can you tell me what this is all about?

https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2018-02-16.html

someone panicing over their job being terminated isn't very funny but the relief on someone's face when you explain that it's a computer process and not their livelihood is still something to see.