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

  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Didn’t leave the job over it, but SAP.

    Shitty. Ass. Program.

    • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I haven’t worked with SAP directly, but did infra support for a company that used it.

      They were always having issues with it and the company they used for SAP support would routinely bill them obscene amounts even for simple tasks like updating file paths.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Due to really dumb requirements we had an app that used Python, Visual basic, C and C++, MATLAB, R and JavaScript. I’m not describing an application stack. This was a single binary. The amalgamation was so disturbing that it couldn’t even shut down once run, instead asking the operating system to please, please kill me.

    Part of the installation procedure involves disabling all SSL certificate verification on company machines.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Doesn’t matter what job I’m in, Adobe anything is always trash and their seeming monopoly on digital certificate signing in PDFs is disgusting.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I didn’t leave the job, but I had my resignation letter written over this since I would have had to maintain it:

    My former boss had an absolute hard-on for “AI” and brought in this low-bid, fly-by-night “AI” software to automate all of our processes. I’m a fan of automation in general, but not this.

    This “solution” was basically a glorified macro generator that would screen scrape data from our apps and key into our other apps. Not only it was built on the absolute shakiest platform imaginable, but the documentation from the vendor outright told you to setup remote desktop services in a way that was in violation of licensing in order for it to work. The stack it ran on made a Rube Goldberg machine look like sleek, fine engineering.

    I repeatedly told him this was bad software, but he persisted to the point where we nearly went to production with it.

    The worst part? The applications he was screen-scraping were all internally-developed. We had access to the backend, frontend, everything. Rather than writing proper processes, he threw that piece of garbage at it.

    Luckily he retired before it went to production, and the new CTO shut it the fuck down.

    So, I didn’t quit my job over it, but I was looking and had my resignation letter written.

  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    SAP, closely followed by IBM/Lotus/(I have no idea which random company they were sold to) Notes

    I fucking hate this corporate bullshit software