How (Not) to Handle Different Exceptions

Came across this sample from a certain multi-billion-dollar company, purporting to show how to implement exception handling. I slightly changed a few cosmetic details to make it anonymous.

try {
    // ...
} catch (GeneralException e) {
    if (e instanceof SpecificExceptionA){
        // ...
    } else if (e instanceof SpecificExceptionB){
        // ...
    }
}

This is a true actual story--you can't make this stuff up. Yeah, I thought it was pretty hilarious; so I felt like I had to share it.