Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working
Techie regrets not taking credit for getting it done with amazing speed
ON CALL Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which you share your stories of absurd tech support situations.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Hamish," who told us that a couple of years ago he worked at a British retailer where the company's website manager – a member of the marketing team – came up with a brilliant idea that was bound to boost sales: adding Apple Pay to the company's website.
Management approved the idea, which duly landed on Hamish's desk – and confused him enormously because the website already offered Apple Pay.
Hamish had two pieces of evidence to prove this fact. One was that when he visited the website, he could see an option to pay with Apple Pay. The other was that he worked for...
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