This is a comic BOFH ("Bastard Operator From Hell") column from The Register, a long-running satirical fiction series about a sociopathic IT worker at a fictional company. In this instalment, the new Boss asks the BOFH for a briefing on the company's content management system, prompting a sarcastic tour of a deliberately dysfunctional document repository that the narrator openly admits was designed to make documents disappear rather than be findable.

The piece skewers corporate IT absurdities: a nonsensical AI auto-tagging system that regenerates keywords nightly and misassociates unrelated terms (mixing up "Manila" the city with "manila" folders), an avatar feature meant to encourage contributions, and a system so unreliable that staff exploit it to bury overdue reports. The BOFH notes senior management themselves requested the system, that it's used to stonewall HMRC audits, and that endless contract amendments and counter-amendments are similarly lost within it — all played for comic effect rather than reported as real events.