WARNING: Language. Another rant. lol.

New job. Techie for govt. This is why we can't have nice things.

Seriously, I was interviewed and lauded on my ability to streamline
things. "That's something we need," they said.

I've never seen a system as bad, ugly, or bloated as Filemaker Pro...
or at least the dumbfuck configuration it's hosting at work. From
crApple's Claris division... although the edition is old enough that
there's no Claris in the About section. But I don't blame FMP. I blame
the dumbasses who designed the forms/database.

1. Fucking hideous. Grayscale with bits of color (mainly red) jolting
in to highlight how poorly-made this monstrosity is. I stare at
white-on-black text in monospace and I think this system is hideous.
Let that sink in on how bad that must be.

2. Fucking inefficient. We have a web form for users to fill out. They
need to provide specific information. They do... in a textarea... that
isn't connected to the forms we need. Most of the time is spent
copying, verifying, and pasting. Absolutely stupid. I point this out.
Boss says "Our programmer starts to complain that this will take 60+
hours and require a budget." No. Fucking. Shit. Had they done it right
the first time (not really the current goon's fault, although she
didn't help much), we wouldn't need a massive rebuild to make the
taxpayers pay me to sit around pressing Ctrl+C, (clicks), Ctrl+V.
Never mind that this shit should be in some Excel document and not
some fruity FMP "Layout."

I started this job last week. I did not have access until over a week
after I started. I still don't have access to everything I need. This
ball of shit rat's nest I'm working with has multiple ways to do the
same thing and they all suck ass.

Best part? I have write access to shit I have no business having write
access to and I don't have +r to the stuff I need to read. Ostensibly
a directory, I HAD, not could, HAD to write a new row. The dumbfuck
who programmed it made it mandatory. I got in trouble. But so did my
dumbass trainer who wasn't supposed to be teaching me to use that dir
anyway... it's just cobbled together bullshit with a ton of
departments. It's a massive, heaving rat's nest of shit.

3. Fucking dumb. I touched on the rwx issue. That's dumb. But for the
love of fuck, the fields are so fucking ghetto that you can't just
press Enter on the "dropdown" (which is more like a text field with
hits after you start typing). No. That just selects it. That doesn't
actually populate the data you need from it. You have to put the text
cursor at the end, THEN press Enter. My favorite is the Copy Field
button from the results of the second Enter. That isn't copy-able. You
have to click a button. And when you click the copy button, it opens
that "dropdown" I was talking about earlier.

Other best part: fucking dumb supervisor, dumb trainers (one is cool
and smart, the other is a micromanaging nightmare who thinks "Return"
is the same as "space") who get pissed because I'm using the wrong
font... because emails need to be in Font at Size. It's fucking
important. I was actually just using plain text.

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It is the Movie 43 of database and case management. That is the best
analogy I can create. Another one is when I helped a poor guy who was
entering a page break as a bunch of returns... before I helped him.
What a shitshow. And I have at least 6 more months of this BS. At
least I got paid to sit on my ass for 8 hours a day for a week before
I had to experience this load of horseshit.