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What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job? (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[-] breakfastburrito@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

Maybe a bit niche, but the Scanco software for computed tomography analysis. Cant remember what it’s called off the top of my head. It’s horribly dated and unintuitive. It does work though! My favorite was when we stopped being able to use it for several weeks, we thought it was busted. We contacted the company for help and they informed us that with a new update the numlock key toggled a “feature” that prevented editing files. No visual representation that editing was locked. Wild

[-] Phrixus@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 8 months ago

Thinking about this hurts me.

[-] breakfastburrito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

I thought maybe I was misremembering the numlock thing so I looked it up and found a mention in someone’s user manual! See top of page 8here

[-] meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

You just broke my brain. “Surely no developer could possibly implement something so stupid,” I thought 2 minutes ago before I read that manual.

That’s a real oof right there.

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