Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working

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May 22, 2026, 2:31 am105 pts
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…

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