Kill me
Posted by on March 11th, 2004
I’m in an all day training for a Peoplecrap financial system. It’s web browsing in the 19th century. Lots of backing up and clunky navigation menus laden with far too much non-intuitive information. I particularly like the feature where you order your “Favorites” menus by typing in sequence numbers. I don’t think drag and drop has been invented yet in the DEMONware world.
That might be reason enough to kill myself by smashing my forehead on the keyboard until blood pools around my training workstation. But the capper is really the boring minutia the presenter keeps introducing in speech filled with initials, codes and jargon I don’t even want to understand.
Right now, she’s using a whiteboard that says:
RES 1000.00
RRV (1000.00)
COM 1200.00
CRV 1000.00)
ACT 1301.45
Oh, OK, now I get it. Thank you helpful whiteboard-drawing lady.
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This is why I read Larry Ellison’s book, Softwar. He tells it like it is. Peoplesoft sucks but he wants their customers. Most of these system sucks because CRM or ERM they forces the customers to live in their world. They need to make the system fit in the customer’s world but to do that one needs customization and Peoplesoft is not meant for customization nor is SAP, Siebel System or any of those.
I feel your pain.
One time our campnay was researching a new system for order entry, etc. We found a pretty nice one with windows and everything, but then corporate bought a whole comany and we ended up using their old mainframe based software.
To get to accounting you had to type OE127 and stupid stuff like that there.
No, I won’t kill you, I’ll tickle you.