Enjoy your lives of leisure, work-at-homes!

[muckefuck]

Well, THAT was a productive use of a half-hour.

Earlier this morning, we had a demonstration of the new timeclock for the new time entry system I had that useless training for last week. My student worker was called forward to swipe his card. Everything went smoothly and we left after five minutes.

A while later, I got mail from Personnel asking me to go in and delete the practice punches. No matter what I did, the system wouldn't let me delete them. It did all kinds of other fun stuff, though. At one point, I clicked on the "insert" button, thinking I might could delete the entire row after I inserted a new one. It disappeared. Then I began clicking on the other buttons at the bottom of the screen--and they all disappeared one by one.

Fortunately, someone came and verified that I wasn't do anything wrong. (Sadly, I couldn't recreate the disappearing buttons.) Apparently, it's only me who was having these problems. She's left with a printout of the fucked-up page in hopes of getting some answers. Not a moment too soon, either. I had been desperate enough to try both the online help and the poorly laid-out manual we got at the useless training. It had nothing remotely relevant to my situation, but it did have a valuable FAQ including such gems as:

Question: Why can't I log in?
Answer: Have you been terminated? If so, you will not have access to [the time entry system].

Right. "La dee dee, time to update my timesheet. Hmm. It's not letting me log into the system. Why could that be? Oh, yeah! They canned my ass! I guess I should be cleaning out my desk!"

Is that a headache I feel coming on?

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[grahamwest.livejournal.com]

The chief promise of the computing age is that computers solve problems. Unfortunately there appear to be some inconsistencies between theory and actuality.