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The reporting software on my new company's current HR Information System is so antiquated that it has a button for you to be able to designate which century you want to consider the data to be part of, a legacy of Y2K concerns.
That, plus the tables that other tables refer to are either oddly named or so buried as to be inaccessable. This means that when I need to pull out information to load into the spiffy new HRIS - information like, say, Veteran Status, I just get the 1-9 number on the table I'm referencing, and can't access the table that my table accesses to tell me WHAT THAT NUMBER MEANS. So it's off to the employee files to look up people with those 1-9 codes to see what text displays on the screen.
Did I mention that when I'm working remotely I can't access the HRIS without logging in thorugh the VPN and and the HRIS reporting module WON'T WORK if I'm logged in through the VPN? So I have to keep logging in and out. And it takes a good 4 minutes for the reporting module to make the connection between my PC and the Citrix reporting site.
Work is fun.
That, plus the tables that other tables refer to are either oddly named or so buried as to be inaccessable. This means that when I need to pull out information to load into the spiffy new HRIS - information like, say, Veteran Status, I just get the 1-9 number on the table I'm referencing, and can't access the table that my table accesses to tell me WHAT THAT NUMBER MEANS. So it's off to the employee files to look up people with those 1-9 codes to see what text displays on the screen.
Did I mention that when I'm working remotely I can't access the HRIS without logging in thorugh the VPN and and the HRIS reporting module WON'T WORK if I'm logged in through the VPN? So I have to keep logging in and out. And it takes a good 4 minutes for the reporting module to make the connection between my PC and the Citrix reporting site.
Work is fun.
