The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

Classic. Remember, the BOFH is no longer the "operator" of some systems at a university. Now he's your ISP, your search engine, your social media services, and many other important things you rely on. "Well, the answer is, we do nothing FOR users. We do things TO users. It's a fine distinction, but an important one all the same." https://www.chinet.com/html/bofh/lastbofh.html

There's a typical amount of seething involved in any field where someone has a minor input or touch-point with your job and they can do something you absolutely cannot or would not do. Typically it's regular folks against the office IT people, but for the Hacker News crowd the bogeymen have to be in either Sales or Infrastructure. Nowadays it's not as fashionable to bash the sales people, because the famous tech entrepreneurs and VCs have beaten into our heads…

Oh man, what a blast from the past. Another great site in the same vein was Acts of Gord[-1], which followed the exploits of a used game store manager. Similarly semi-apocryphal and perhaps a little overstated, but highly enjoyable. [-1] http://www.actsofgord.com/

These work best as an American trwating like a foreigner viewing Doctor Who.