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What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job? (lemmy.world)

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I've worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.

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[-] tool@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Before I replace it with something that won't catastrophically collapse when the wind blows the wrong way, I get some sort of sick satisfaction out of doing autopsies on the house-built-of-matchsticks "solutions" that users come up with and I don't know why. Some of them are truly fascinating and make you wonder how someone could possibly arrive at that conclusion based on what they were actually try to achieve.

It's also why if I'm asked to implement something, my first question isn't "When does this need to be done?," it's "What exactly is the problem you're trying to solve?"

What a user asks for and what they actually need very rarely intersect.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 8 months ago

I wish I could hire you and a couple other people who replied to this lol. "Match stick architecture" is definitely something we have and I have been trying to shore up / replace for years.

[-] tool@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Sorry, I missed this comment. I actually love doing that kind of shit, I get some sort of weird pleasure out of fixing chaotic stuff like that. That tends to be my role almost all the time; I'll come in, stay a few years, fix everything and get bored, and then move on somewhere else to do it again.

My current job is the only place that I haven't done that, because it's probably the best company that I've ever worked for.

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