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by jasonwatkinspdx 641 days ago
Years ago I worked in a Wells Fargo call center that had all the usual requirements including forced monthly rotation that had to be significantly different than the prior one.

Guess what the most common thing written on a post-it note on a monitor in somebody's cube was?

This was an outbound call center doing credit investigations, processing huge piles of PII and financial information daily.

I'm so glad to see this farce done away with.

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> forced monthly rotation that had to be significantly different than the prior one

No need to write any of them down! Work smarter, not harder: WelcomeDecember2023! -> WelcomeJanuary2024! -> WelcomeFebruary2024! -> WelcomeMay2024! -> ...

(don't do this, obviously)

The funniest password sticky note I've seen was someone whose password was the name of their child and their birth year. Not a great password in general, but apparently they didn't know their kid very well because they had to write it down and stick it onto their monitor.