(The funny scrollbar is because this image is composed of 4 screen captures)
Ok, so which one of these options is to record my timesheet?
Serious GUI fail.
Posts Tagged ‘work’
SAP: GUI fail. Behold, the “Easy Access Menu”
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Lotus Notes: Wasting screen real estate
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Screen real estate is precious. If I want to see my calender for the week, on a 1280×800 screen, I expect to be able to see all the appointments for the week.
Lotus Notes somehow manages to not be able to show me more than about the first 10 characters of my appointments, and wastes all sorts of space in the process!
More SAP weirdness
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Following on from my previous post, which described my first experience with SAP, I have continued to be thoroughly unimpressed with this application so far.
Honestly guys, your GUI is shit.
Right click on the system icon, and you get these options:
Both, by the way, kill the client.
7am is too early
Monday, February 8th, 2010There are a few of us at the moment working very hard on a proposal. I worked all weekend, and I was at the office at 7am this morning, because it is due today.
The security guard wouldn’t let me in. He said because I don’t have an access card yet, he cant let me in until 8am. Forgetting the obvious question (“Gee Jake, you’ve been there a few months now, why don’t you have an access card?”), the real question is why can’t you let me in until 8am? And what am I supposed to do until then?
I was pretty pissed. But I was also (and still am) quite tired due to all the overtime and so on. So let me ask you, does it make any sense to you? If he can let me in at 8am without a card, why cant he let me in at 7am without a card? I guess I’ll have to wait an hour before I do all my stealing.
Anyway, all I did was walk down the car ramp into the carpark, and tailgate someone in through the security barriers down there. Yeah, heaps secure.
Quick, Log into SAP!
Friday, February 5th, 2010Um, Ok…. If you can tell me what to click on …..
Technobabble
Thursday, January 21st, 2010This was uttered today by yours truly:
So by using file level ACL, managed in AD, we can restrict what XE can access via the SVN interface?
Sheesh. I’ll even I won’t understand that 5 years from now.
Steven Hunter
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Looking for an experienced meteorologist in the Spain/Portugal area? Look no further than Steven Hunter.
Firewall irony at work
Monday, December 28th, 2009To demonstrate my point, I tried to go to the following link:
BBC NEWS | The great firewall of China
And was blocked:
The webpage [URL] that you would like to open can not be displayed because it belongs to category Press*. If you need to access the professional content of this category or page, we ask you to submit [an internal permission request] selecting the Press* category.
Otherwise if you believe that this page is not categorized correctly, please let us know using the [IT helpdesk] application.
The other major category I’ve discovered so far is Purchases*, wherein I am encourages to contact the procurement department. Sigh.
* the color is a clue
Business Buzzword Overload
Friday, December 18th, 2009The following text is the first two paragraphs of a document I recently received.
The development of the Centre is a key strategy in the delivery of the Operations vision, which will deliver significant efficiencies over [the investment period]. The Operations Business Plan delivery through [the current investment period] is predicated on a major shift in the culture, approach and business model that has begun to be put in place through 2009/10.
I think I vomited in my mouth a little bit.
If this guy was ever in a meeting, I think I would set new buzzword bingo records. Which is to say that I would exceed my value-based and quality driven pivot-word recognition count, thereby leverage key synergies in my key portfolio areas.
Resource Waste
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Attention All Employees,
It has come to our attention that certain people are wasting company resources.
The above picture is proof that some of you are not trying hard enough to make these resources last.
Please be aware that undue waste is not to be tolerated.
Thankyou, Management.