Totally unsolicited feedback: It's kind of hard to convey teachable points when the bulk of the article is opinion related to a story about another person but none of the details are shared. I understand wanting to keep it vague to avoid a dustup with the people involved, but it just felt a bit devoid of specifics. If you're going to use an anecdote, either give us the details or just make fictional and do some character development.
I have the choice between writing stories about people vaguely, and getting to select the interesting stories that fit, or writing stories I can source, which limits me to only a very few stories.
If I don't use any stories at all, then the posts are less interesting. Your comment puts me in a bind - I'm not sure what the way out is.
NB, I find it interesting that you refer to your posts as stories as your usage connotes that they are fiction.
You don't want to come around to the company I work for, then (heck, I've ADDED some of the WTF-worthy code myself :) )
He often does shit like adding weak framing ripped from the plot of Office Space, changing all of the proper nouns, combining multiple stories, etc.
I personally quite like it :)