Avoiding homework with code and getting caught
I worked at Sun Microsystems in the late 90s/early 2000s and at the World Trade Center offices, pretty much everyone had to hot desk.<p>I was in a group that, unlike our "pure" sales brothers & sisters, spent a lot of time in the office. The whole hot desk was a big PITA because we had to reserve our desks and we could only reserve, I think, 1 week in advance.<p>But, one of my colleagues figured out that the back-end of the reservation system had an RMI interface and it didn't do any validation of the reservation requests. So he wrote a CLI utility that let us reserve the same offices week after week.<p>We would've gotten away with it except that the head of sales realized one Monday morning that we always seemed to be sitting in the same place. I guess she made some enquiries because not long after that, we were all called into her office and made to promise that we wouldn't hack the reservation system anymore.<p>At the bard so famously wrote, "Pride goeth before a fall." :)