My big problem: If it wasn’t clear by the blog already, I hate social media websites with a passion. I dislike Twitter and Mastodon equally. Facebook is my nemesis, and Instagram is my foe. That said, I have a soft spot for Youtube. Did I say soft spot? I mean, crippling addiction. I love Youtube. Whereas older generations turn on the tv and zone out, I pop open an incognito tab so that I get a fresh algorithm each time and ride the wave. ...
The Problem In my last job, the people were fantastic, the work fascinating, and the clients were decent folks even when things got pretty heated. The biggest problem I had to deal with on a daily basis wasn’t anything to do with the normal frustrations of modern working; it was with the time keeping system! The Old Time Keeping System The timekeeping system that my last employer used was awful. It was a website wrapper around some ancient salesforce application. There were a number of thin clients, but the website was the most recent (and most buggy). ...