I’ve worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
Mac OS X.
Verizon Wireless POS. They went through 3 versions while I was there, and each was as bad as the last.
Anyone ever use Accela?
Mac OS and R
Recently started using OSX and wow, so much better than windows 11. I’m a Linux user at home so it’s nice to have a proper shell and none of the crashy bugs and glitches windows has. The UI is so much better.
Second Mac OS, what the literal fuck! Brain damaged window management, inferior software update management and a bastard of a *NIX environment.
For all the flak it always gets, can I just say I’m relieved nobody said JIRA yet? I think JIRA is great for what to does, but companies are just bad at setting it up right. Either they go overboard with restrictive processes, or they are unorganized mess, there is no in between. But that’s not the software’s fault. (Braces for downvotes)
We used Jira at work and when the ticket was set up properly (stories, subtasks, etc…) it worked well.
Jira itself is fine. The problem is the “user generated content”
I would say it is the softwares fault though. Ever heard of “convention over configuration”? Jira is like the opposite of that idea. For a task management app, you need something more opinionated and less configurable I feel like. Something simpler that covers most use cases and doesn’t try to cover literally everything cause that just makes it so complicated. Jira is the opposite of KISS as well.
I like JIRA, but you make a good point there. My company lets every team manage their project however they want. They go an extra mile to tailor and customize JIRA in whatever way each team “needs”. But having over 100+ teams in my company has made projects a nightmare, I have to write very complex JQLs and filters just to get the results I need from all the projects I’m involved with. There’s no pattern at all.
Yeah the shitty bespoke markup language and half assed integration of a WYSIWYG editor that fucks up tickets with formatting that is more complex than a few headers and a few lists makes it the worst in my opinion :(
I think JIRA is okay. I’ve used MUCH worst bug reporting software. The worst thing I can say about JIRA is that it is designed to implement scrum and IMO scrum is cargo cult programming.
Moodle.
Trying to turn it into an enterprise level LMS without paying any money was an interesting nightmare.
Not a job, but I was happy to stop using Blackboard when I left community college lmao.
The programming language Java. I could rant for half a goddamn hour.
Sorry but FreeCAD, it’s just not made for professional use. I don’t blame it, I blame my boss for being so tight he had us on Linux cos of that and then plus wouldn’t buy me a CAD program.
Back then Web based options like Onshape didn’t exist so there wasn’t much else…
Startup life for you…
Windows.
I did an internship where my main system was Linux, but it was in a VM on one monitor with the windows host on another for using Windows apps.
I work in IT and my first few jobs were working with Windows doing Desktop Support. It was extremely boring and annoying. I’ve been a long time Linux user and broke into that side, professionally as soon as I could.
Haven’t left the company yet but changed department mostly because of Enovia V6. Piece of crap software held together by a bit of spit.
My company got acquired by a competitor, we had been running on PeopleSoft, and I don’t remember the software the new company used but it was a soul sucking black screen with basically a DOS prompt that you had to learn key combinations to use. I had never thought I cared about the beautiful visual interface of PeopleSoft but my God it turned out I did.
Windows.
Lotus Notes.
I get into a lot of atheist vs theists arguments and it bothers me a bit that not even once has a theist suggested that the existence of Lotus Notes is evidence of Satan. It does bother me because I admit it would make me lose confidence in my position.
SAP and nearly every accounting package. And I didn’t have to use them daily, I just had to support them. Ugh.
As an accountant who has to use SAP every day at my current job, fuck everything about SAP and whoever came up with this steaming pile of absolute dogshit needs to be put in front of a firing squad.
What gets me is the price you pay in order to get the abuse of a product that never quite works well enough to be “finished”, and then you get to pay consultants for years to overcome it’s shortfalls. This is a classic C-suite boondoggle that nobody can get around to admitting was a complete waste of money and it’s so expensive that nobody can survive flushing the sunk cost of by getting out. And then it’s intertwined in the ERP of so many supply chains that you can’t not use it because every company above and below uses it (and hates it) so you have to implement it for the B2B interoperability.
It’s a horrendous chain of inevitability, and IBM is laughing all the way to the bank.
SAP is not owned by IBM, no?
My bad, I always dealt with IBM consultants on SAP sites so I assumed it was shitty enough to be an IBM product. I guess not, it’s its own little island of shittiness. But according to Wikipedia, it was started as an IBM project inherited from Xerox and carried on by the 5 engineers at IBM that were on it when it was cancelled and they left to continue with it. So there is a genetic background showing that the shit acorn doesn’t fall far from the shit tree.
