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#realJSOP wrote: What great work someone did to effectively quash the morale of quite possibly the hardest working person on the team.
Just implementing Service Now would do that. I hate it.
About 3 years ago, a bunch of Service Now 'consultants' came in to implement at my place. After nearly 2 years, we switched over to it. During that time the consultants had zero conversations with development and, surprise surprise, we have a system that is not fit for purpose! When we pointed this out, we were told the implementation was for the benefit of the business, not developers. OK, so can development go back to their old way of working? Nope!
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#realJSOP wrote: and we have one table with over 600 columns
Now, that you just made up...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Nope. Sorry to say, it's not made up. The stuff I've seen in our database makes me both laugh and cry.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Six hundred columns? Sounds similar, but more extreme than, software subcontracted to India that the company (i.e., mine) paid for and discarded before use.
As for your Woe[] - I've not paid the price but I've seen the pattern and more than once. They hired a new CIO (from outside) who's done roughly nothing but has caused the selection and implementation of some software packages that make me wretch. Not to worry, a good deal of it is being used by outside contractors whom I've been told are "buddies" of his. To an extent, this patter has been embraced by the company.
The only good advice I can give to this sort of situation is my secret plan: "Next time be born rich".
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: "Next time be born rich".
 Of course! Why didn't I just think of that...
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We have ServiceNow providing access and stuff we need, everyone calls it ServiceWheneverTheHeckTheyFeelLikeIt.
Wonder if Bill McDermott himself sold your bosses on it.
(Bill was boss at SAP when they were buying everything then jumped ship over to ServiceNow)
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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#realJSOP wrote: MySql and Angular.
#realJSOP wrote: ServiceNow
I looked at their website and thought, wow, anyone that uses Willy Wonka as a metaphor cannot possibly be a professional business outfit -- it's like something that a company in [insert the expected prejudice] would do. Looking at their "about" page, I think my suspicions are confirmed.
I'm amazed you don't just quit without any notice. I don't think I could stomach it.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm amazed you don't just quit without any notice. I don't think I could stomach it.
Quitting is fine; quitting without notice is unprofessional. That sort of thing gets around, and often limits your future prospects.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm planning on retiring in Feb 2023, so no worries. I think I can stick it out that long.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Replacement writer agree. (9)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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AUTHORIZE?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nope
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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SUBSCRIBE
Replacement - SUB
Writer - SCRIBE
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Yay you are up tomorrow
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I watch these with some interest. I am not up nearly early enough (USA) to participate, nor am I usually smart enough to come up with a solution. Yet, I often try to figure them out before going and looking at the real solution.
Today's in my opinion (Which isn't worth anything) is an exceptionally well thought out one.
Well done.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Thank you - I do try and avoid going down the usual anagram path when I can ( if I'm feeling creative ) with the plethora of online anagram solvers around the clues are normally solved in minutes. It's difficult coming up with global cryptic clues as different countries have various methods of constructing the clue. Thanks again.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I watch them with interest just like you.
I enjoy them.
How the elephant they know the answer to most of them bewilders me.
Some clever people around here...
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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How to download and use Microsoft Word for free | TechRadar[^]
The "trackless" link to the Office suite is here: Microsoft Office is part of Microsoft 365[^]
Sign in: Sign in to your Microsoft account[^]
and if you use OneDrive (and I do for non-confidential files I what to share between my three PC's - desktop, Surface Go 2, and the Surface 3 Pro in the kitchen for recipes) then your files will be listed, you can edit them in an online version of the "right software" and it'll update on your other devices as you'd expect.
I just tried it on Chrome via Android and it works, though the online Excel support via OneDrive doesn't work too well - there isn't an obvious "sheet view", they just all become "pages" within a "flat view" and I'd be reluctant to save any changes I made there just in case.
But ... if you need a document while on someone else's PC and they don't have Office then it could be really useful.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm not sure whether you're inferring this is some sort of (not-so) well-guarded secret. For years now, as long as you've had a MS account, you've been able to go www.office.com, login, and there's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive, etc, all running in a browser.
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It came up on Google News this morning, and I'd never heard of it (despite having several licences for Office 2019).
And I figured it could be useful, particularly if you - like me - hate the Office 365 "subscription model".
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I've used it a couple times. I believe even Word was very watered down as far as formatting goes, so it isn't really comparable to the full program. But it was a useful tool for working on stuff between devices without the subscription, then importing it into the desktop app and doing final formatting. I also believe the watered down online app did honor the final formatting, which was another plus.
That was years ago, so maybe it is more comparable to the full suite now. Useful tool.
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Sixty odd years ago, the then Postmaster-General's Department started using cable buried directly in the ground for telephony, in place of open-wire lines on poles, much less expensive than laying large conduit. It worked very well at the test sites in Victoria, so they started rolling it out (literally) in tropical Queensland.
Oops! The tropical termites just LOVED to gnaw on the PVC/polythene insulation. They had to tear it all up and replace it with similar cable enclosed in a hard nylon sheath that the termites couldn't chew.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: The tropical termites just LOVED to gnaw on the PVC/polythene insulatio
Termites that evolved to eat plastics? Halogenated ones at that?
I guess things like a Duck-billed platypus and Cassowary are rather mundane after all
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Many plastics seep an odor that attracts animals.
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