What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job?
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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I've worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
I think so many people are institutionalized into Microsoft office suite (especially for outlook mail and calendar) and it is just so RIDICULOUSLY bad - I'd never really appreciated gmail or complimented gsuite until my company was acquired and forced to regularly work in outlook.
I immediately took a 50% productivity hit and even daily success towards regular goals just doesn't feel quite like success anymore because I'm always chasing my tail. Luckily I was already an overachiever, so my diminished workload is still good. Stupid company fucked themself out of a lot of wins for such a small, tone deaf decision.
The simplest way I can say it is that before with gsuite I just never thought about productivity apps - they worked in the background to support me well enough. Now that we're in outlook, I have multiple bad interactions that I have to navigate around every single workday.
So many frustrations here! I just switched companies and forced back into outlook&teams.
Would you like to know who's attending a meeting? We hid this very deep in the meeting options.
Want to see all emails sent to Jack? Here are all emails from Jack instead.
Want to see when Jack is available for a quick chat? Please schedule a meeting and use the scheduling tool just to see if he's even in the office today
I didn't really get it until you listed these. Yeah, I've run into every single one of these.
Btw, if you want to see who's attending a meeting, you can just pretend you want to email them and reply all to the invite. Because of course these are the natural ways to handle these use cases.
I fucking hate Outlook and if I have to pick between two similar jobs I'd pick the one with gsuite over Microsoft any day.
Previous company handled everything over email. No Kanban, no Git, no organization - everything was still handled as it was in a random accounting office back in the 90's. I spend half of my worktime searching for who-said-what-and-when emails to code feature x, and then had to email it back to another dev.
There was also zero drive to improve anything. I was yelled at for 5 mins straight for suggesting to add a placeholder to a dateinput (which was declared as '', instead of ''), because the correct format 'YYYYMMDD' was never mentioned anywhere on the form or in error mesages, and people keept having issues.