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I once worked for an $ENTERPRISE which made, among other things, office telephones. Like the real physical ones, with buttons. I also found the problem with no one knows what X is or who owns it.

My solution was to just PICK UP THE PHONE and talk to the last person who had a commit in the version control system on that thing. Which worked fine until I tried calling an engineer in Elbownia, when I realized that part of what made offshoring so profitable was that this company, who made phones (and softphones) didn't even give phones to people outside of North America and Europe.



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