What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job?

Quazatron@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 367 points –

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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During my statistics graduate degree, there was one course we had to do our data analysis using SAS. I absolutely despise it and refuse to work for any employer that would expect me to use it.

SPSS is also crap - at my current job there were some processes that used it's scripting "language". It was both painful but cathartic to slowly rewrite those processes into R.

Sas is awful but I will say doing mixed linear models and doing contrasts was pretty easy compared to r.

SAS is utter insanity. I took grad-level Stats and we learned how to use it. I almost started to get good at it. When I brought my very first analysis to my grad advisor she told me that all analysis has to be performed by the department's head statistician. All I could think was: "why the fuck are they forcing me to learn a language they won't allow me to use???"