Online Databases

Why the FUCK can't people (or in this case, groups of people) make educated decisions about the online software they chose in order to help prospective employees make themselves known to the powers at be? The irony in this is all the more delicious since of course I'm talking about applying to schools.

Let's just get the money rant out of the way to begin with...asking me to use a pay service when there are excellent free alternatives already out there (educationcanada is an excellent service, and falls victim to NONE of the complaints I'm about to make, BTW) is dumb to begin with...but who are the most likely users of this service? Newly graduated students, perhaps? Teachers-to-be who would like to MAKE money, rather than spend it? And then you insult my intelligence by asking me to submit a credit card number without even checking for the security code? Well, maybe they're expecting the new grads to be stealing their parents cards.

Of course, then it would help if the database solution you selected actually, you know...WORKED. I do not want to see nicely blocked paragraphs of Javascript on my screen when an error occurs. I don't want to see it when there's an error on YOUR end...and I REALLY don't want to see it when there's obstentiably been an error on MY end...such as, not selecting a checkbox that was completely irrelevant to me, was no indicated as being mandatory in any way...and wasn't even a fricking radio button, but was a checkbox, the very DEFINITION of optional in the HTML and post- world. Fuck you, get a better programmer.

And get some better tech support people too, so that I don't have to stumble blindly through roughly 192439823912 menus without so much as a popup questionmark box. I've been using computers for 22 years of my life. It STILL took me over an hour to weasle my way through your Byzantine architecture of selecting this and dragging that and clicking here (none of the above labeled, naturally). Do you honestly expect a teacher, who seem to be amoung the most technologically-phobic people as a group I've ever encountered, to make it through the maze?

Oh, and jumping through all those hoops...and then telling me I need to submit files in at least three different formats for different sections? Bite my choad. I bet most of your applicants wouldn't know a .bmp from a .pdf if they had the instructions tattooes on their titties. Fucking imbeciles (the people who made the pages, not the people who frankly shouldn't have to know any better).

At least I have Yet Another Thing to think about doing instead of this shit...

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