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rob, Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:01)
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Rotten DesignThis should open the way for a few rants. I hate rotten design. I hate the paper towel dispenser in the men's room at work It jams every time it's filled and water drips off your hands onto it, making it and the interleaved towel below wet before you use it. The idiot who designed it should be forced to use it.
Then there was the computer hindered lighting system in one building I worked in. Supposed to turn the lights out on the sunny side of the building but mostly switched off those on the shady side. When it was "fixed" nobody could work out which switch worked which lights and basically turned on all lights until the ones they wanted to work, worked. So much for energy saving.
I hate computer software with print so small you have got to squint to read it. On one calendar applet, the front / back arrows have five white pixels against a pale blue background. Yes, I used a lens to count the insignificant bastards. When I suggested they change it I got the suggestion that if I used a larger text size I'd be able to see it better. Crap. I didn't even realise it was fecking there in the first place and phoned the software team to ask where it was.
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I have a program I have to use for work that is quite old.The program does what you want it to do. But the reports that print from it have the smallest damn text I have ever seen. And you *can't* change the text size. I don't know if the programmers wanted to conserve space on the paper or if they are just sadistic.....either way, having to read these reports every day makes me beg for a magnifying glass.
Oh, and the programmers won't change the program because it is so old and apparently my office is the first to notice that the text is too freaking small. bah!
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sun 13 Apr 2008, 4:42,
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Fuck yes.I have a vendetta against "Designers" who make things that are utterly shit.
Bring this QOTW on!!!
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Thu 17 Apr 2008, 8:38,
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