More Corporate Stupidity
Apr. 14th, 2005 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljpliceaseThey make us use this horrible horrible horrible e-mail client at The Company because it is also one of our products. Its unofficial nickname has "slow" as the prefix. I hate it because it is totally proprietary and only plays lip service to industry standards such as SMTP (which is the way pretty much all electronic mail is transferred over the Internet), and doesn't provide any support at all for IMAP or POP (IMAP is my preferred way of fetching messages from mail servers) which are also standard pretty much across the board.
But wait, I haven't gotten to the corporate stupidity part yet. A couple of years ago, they asked everyone to upgrade their "template" to the latest version, which had the nifty extra feature that it would automatically delete your mail if it was older than some predetermined length of time, say six months or something. So I never upgraded. The other day I was talking to Adil, and he admitted that he hadn't upgraded either for the same reasons.
So much of the stupidity at The Company appears manifest itself in the form of policy decisions, handed down, as though Moses were reading them off the tablet, in which there is no discussion or dialog, and hardly any compliance. Because they make us do things which are annoying and irritating and often are of questionable value anyway, people ignore or actively circumvent security and efficiency directives making this actually less secure and less efficient.
But wait, I haven't gotten to the corporate stupidity part yet. A couple of years ago, they asked everyone to upgrade their "template" to the latest version, which had the nifty extra feature that it would automatically delete your mail if it was older than some predetermined length of time, say six months or something. So I never upgraded. The other day I was talking to Adil, and he admitted that he hadn't upgraded either for the same reasons.
So much of the stupidity at The Company appears manifest itself in the form of policy decisions, handed down, as though Moses were reading them off the tablet, in which there is no discussion or dialog, and hardly any compliance. Because they make us do things which are annoying and irritating and often are of questionable value anyway, people ignore or actively circumvent security and efficiency directives making this actually less secure and less efficient.
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Date: 2005-04-14 05:14 pm (UTC)we also have a really crappy piece of software with which we do everything. it has a nickname starting in "disaster."
today, it locked up while i was searching for something, so i controlaltdeleted it. when i reopened the application and tried to get back into the ticket, it kept telling me that the account was locked because i was still in it, and asked, "would you like to send this user a message?" after five minutes i tried sending myself a message, telling me to get the hell out of it, but i never even received it!
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Date: 2005-04-14 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-14 08:46 pm (UTC)they keep promising us new software, and then they try it out at the guinea-pig pharmacy (at the chili-paul store, they even have a DRIVE THRU i'd kill myself if ridgemont had one of those) and then it turns out to be exponentially worse than the piece of shit we have now, so whatever.