I think this accurately describes everyday for me in an IT department:
Windows-only, Java-only, enterprise vendor-driven web development that must work in IE6? HDD indeed.
My current favourite example of this is getting HTML newsletters to work in Outlook 2007.
I can only exist in this state for a very short period. Then it's time to pull out the resume and hit the bricks.
So that is how I wrote all that code yesterday...
I've been working on a project integrating SugarCRM with the application we just wrote for the client. This describes EXACTLY how i get any work done. I could go on for hours describing every facet of that application that was done completely wrong.
Oh wow! What a revolutionary development in software engineering! I can see this being used at least twenty years in the future.