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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Ah yes, my last company bought into that crap. They called it RPA for Robotic Process Automation and they also used it to access internal apps that we had full control of.

It wouldn't have been so bad if they just used it to enter data into third party websites which had no APIs or integrations.

At one point we updated the title of an HTML page and we had to revert the change because the RPA team said it would be a three week turnaround to fix their script.

I noped out of there not long after, it was yet another "project management driven" company where managers and project managers were repeatedly duped by vendors and outsourcing firms instead of hiring and retaining developers.

Oh god, I'm so sorry. That's exactly what we went through, and yep, same thing. Changing even the tiniest element in the UI would break their whole "automation".

That was one of the many things I warned about but was overridden. Lol, thankfully I was saved by his retirement and new CTO agreeing with me.