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BOFH: Oh No! The CMS Ate 500 Pages of Corporate Documentation

The Register, Friday, September 11th, 2026

A sarcastic IT administrator explains why the company's content management system cannot manage content.

The BOFH humorously describes a poorly-designed CMS that makes documents nearly impossible to find or retrieve.

The system uses flawed AI-driven tagging that regenerates nightly with erratic keyword associations, rendering searches unreliable.

Despite its obvious failures, nobody wants it fixed because staff use it as a convenient place for documents to disappear, and the original invoice is, naturally, lost within the system itself.

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