Contractor/Corportation Software - How boomers ruin easy work.

[tehpope]

This isn't boomer tech persey, but in the spirit of it. At my new job, their customer service database runs off Siebel. Its such an old version of Siebel that will only run on Internet Explorer. JFC. At least my computer runs Windows 10 and has 8gb of RAM.

 

[Margo Martindale]

The fact that websites and apps are constantly changing the ui just for the sake of change makes things ever harder to understand for boomers.

My uncle didnt even know how to use youtube when the web redesign happened.

There really is no design consistency im software anymore. I remember having a class on making Windows programs in visual basic, and there were sections on how to make the UI consistent and usable, and the common designs practices most people followed (ex: the placement of the OK, Cancel, and apply buttons on a dialog box, alt key shortcuts for common menu options,etc)

 

[Never Scored]

Complaining about useless boomers and the tech they can't use?
Why would you complain about an easy job for life?

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King"

I don't think you get how aggressively stupid boomers are with tech.

I once got in a shouting match because a 55-year-old thought his email worked slower when he went to the US because the Trump administration passed a policy that each email going into the country had to be inspected. Nevermind the fact that we use Gsuite and Google is in the US anyway.

 

[Basil II]

Complaining about useless boomers and the tech they can't use?
Why would you complain about an easy job for life?

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King"

Based and Bulgar-pilled.

This isn't boomer tech persey, but in the spirit of it. At my new job, their customer service database runs off Siebel. Its such an old version of Siebel that will only run on Internet Explorer. JFC. At least my computer runs Windows 10 and has 8gb of RAM.

running windows 10 is nothing to be proud of.

 

[HumanHive]

The fact that websites and apps are constantly changing the ui just for the sake of change makes things ever harder to understand for boomers.

My uncle didnt even know how to use youtube when the web redesign happened.

There really is no design consistency im software anymore. I remember having a class on making Windows programs in visual basic, and there were sections on how to make the UI consistent and usable, and the common designs practices most people followed (ex: the placement of the OK, Cancel, and apply buttons on a dialog box, alt key shortcuts for common menu options,etc)

They change the UI as busywork to keep people employed. It’s something out of Dilbert.

 

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Can't say much about my environment for security reasons but it's a mess, not exactly a bad mess though. It's a nice place but for reasons I'll get into later it isn't as casual as I'd like it.

I won't name the offending language everything is programmed with but in my mind I can see the founder googling "business programming language" circa 2002 or so without realizing why that's a beginner's mistake and finding the turd that would become the company's single biggest source of technical debt. It's a proprietary COBOL knockoff that doesn't have proper array support and all the tools except for the very newest (Which is all poorly configured open source software) was clearly written for pre 2000's windows machines. The syntax creaks and groans from 40 years of chasing the zeitgeist and trying to market it as "just like natural language!". There are so many instances of very specific reserved keywords that are used to pass arguments to precisely one function it makes my head hurt.

Obviously the place I work for runs an extremely important service that would ruin lives and cost shitloads if it fucks up so no pressure, right? (The stolen open source stuff probably helps in that department lol)

It sounds like SAP is probably involved somewhere. My condolences.

 

[RadicalCentrist]

Can't say much about my environment for security reasons but it's a mess, not exactly a bad mess though. It's a nice place but for reasons I'll get into later it isn't as casual as I'd like it.

I won't name the offending language everything is programmed with but in my mind I can see the founder googling "business programming language" circa 2002 or so without realizing why that's a beginner's mistake and finding the turd that would become the company's single biggest source of technical debt. It's a proprietary COBOL knockoff that doesn't have proper array support and all the tools except for the very newest (Which is all poorly configured open source software) was clearly written for pre 2000's windows machines. The syntax creaks and groans from 40 years of chasing the zeitgeist and trying to market it as "just like natural language!". There are so many instances of very specific reserved keywords that are used to pass arguments to precisely one function it makes my head hurt.

Obviously the place I work for runs an extremely important service that would ruin lives and cost shitloads if it fucks up so no pressure, right? (The stolen open source stuff probably helps in that department lol)

I can also give away that a lot of power and water plants up and down the country run on some unholy 256 colour windows 95 visual programming language with dials and machinery that resembles maxis widget workshop. It's possibly some ancient version of EBSILON or Simulink or ripoff thereof.

So is the "Knowing COBOL will make you rich!!!" meme debunked?

Can you give more info on the power/water plant visual language?

 

[Coolio55]

So is the "Knowing COBOL will make you rich!!!" meme debunked?

Can you give more info on the power/water plant visual language?

Don't know about the first bit. This is neo-cobol after all. I know a lot of the financial sector still use the old shit so maybe?
...not that working in the financial sector guarantees you good pay.

As for the visual language I haven't found it again. The name is nondescript and I looked it up once when someone on the grapevine told me and showed me.

 

[On a toilet]

I had to spend over 80 minutes trying to get a co-worker to authenticate MS Teams because they couldn't understand "point your phone's camera at the big symbol" to activate a QR code.

Ha ha, you got played my friend by a passive aggressive colleague. MS Teams is just a more personally intrusive version of Skype or other platforms with no actual tech benefit except they expect MAF (and your first born) even if you are just a contractor joining a meeting that is probably not required in the first place. They literally try and point you to farcebook to sign in.

ETA typo

 

[Twitter Hate Mob]

Ha ha, you got played my friend by a passive aggressive colleague. MS Teams is just a more personally intrusive version of Skype or other platforms with no actual tech benefit except they expect MAF (and your first born) even if you are just a contractor joining a meeting that is probably not required in the first place. They literally try and point you to farcebook to sign in.

ETA typo

I would love to believe my colleague is capable of that, but no I'm pretty sure he's literally demented in the actual sense of "having early onset dementia". Either that or he was just born retarded.