No cheesecake or pizza or cognac today, alas, just a long dull seminar to bring all the admins up to date on a new faculty-CVs-on-the-intranet program that will make all academic and medical staff appointments and advancements paperless by April. Which, yay and go team paperless!
But the application in its present form includes -- no, doesn't even include,
starts out with
a tab labeled "Import CV" that, if the faculty member clicks it, will import whatever badly-formatted Word doc CV the faculty member pulls off hir desktop and irrevokably overwrite the university-approved fully formatted CV that's already up there. There's no conceivable reason anyone but an HR admin could ever have to click that tab, and it's the
first thing
the faculty will see when they log in.
We all screamed and recoiled and flailed at that tab of evil, and the guy leading the seminar asked innocently why we couldn't just explain to our faculty not to click it, there, problem solved. Um. Dude, have you ever met a doctor?
I think we should start a betting pool on which senior MD will be the first to completely overwrite hir 75-page CV with a kitten singing "Fight the Power" or something.
We all screamed and recoiled and flailed at that tab of evil, and the guy leading the seminar asked innocently why we couldn't just explain to our faculty not to click it, there, problem solved. Um. Dude, have you ever met a doctor?
As a programmer, I say, "Dude. Have you ever met a user?"
Of course, most users are fine. But even if 1% of users click on it, it still makes a mess.
Tell them they should make the tab bright red, and label it "History Eraser Button".
Tell them they should make the tab bright red, and label it "History Eraser Button".
And, sadly, I can still guarantee you that won't deter everyone. Most people, yes, but there'll still be that small handful who come to their admins afterward saying mournfully, "Well, I didn't understand what it meant, so I figured it didn't mean me."
I am so frustrated with the website for one of the companies that would be a really good place for me to work. When I log in to the careers section, it periodically gives me an error, other times takes my log in, but within a step or two cycles me back to the main page as if I had never signed in. I sent them an email explaining the situation and giving them my browser information, but it makes me doubt whether my other two job submissions ever went through. grrrr.
I could be their site tester. In fact, if I do not get an answer in a day or two, maybe I will sent the head of HR as well as the IT department head an email complete with screen shot and step by step process I took.
Where are people talking about
Glee?
I don't watch it, but I DO have a question about it.
Well, I finally got my self-eval done. It's rather stripped-down, due to the fact that none of us think we'll be still here at the end of the year, so our goals for 2011 are pretty much the same as for last year.
And, I paid off my bills at lunchtime, so that's done. I was going to go to the grocery store after work, but there are a few coupons I really should have with me, so I'll go there tomorrow morning. I'm going to be lazy and get a meatloaf at Boston Market for my weekend's lunches and dinners. And then I'll get started on my closets and drawers tonight.
it is Friday, isn't it?
What are people doing this weekend?
