The Shared Folders

Tomorrow, dear reader, is not a day I am looking forward to.

Tomorrow, I’m going into the labyrinth alone. I’m heading into the shared folders.

The shared folders embody the essence of our company. They contain the past and the future - all inside of a single hierarchical structure.

A few months ago, I went into the folders, and they looked something like this:

I went to the powers that be, and asked for some insight as to the structure I found. Are the final specifications the complete specifications? Or are the complete specifications the final specifications? Do we make final specifications, then review, update, and mark them complete? Or do we make a complete set of specifications, then update, review, and mark them as final?

I suggested wikis, portals, or anything with WebDAV to make some sense of our artifacts, but the powers that be like folders. Shared folders. Shared folders with a deep hierarchy. The deeper the better.

The powers that be told me the folders would undergo a reorganization, and the latest version of specifications would be easier to find. Past versions would be put into an archive folder. “Great!”, I said. I returned to the shared folders a few weeks later to find this:

Looking at this, I feel like David Carradine’s character in the old Kung Fu series.

That is not a puzzle, Grasshopper. It is only something you do not yet know