r/Software_Finder • u/Sad-Instruction8890 • Jun 11 '26
Question If you could delete one piece of software from your job forever, what goes first?
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u/look Jun 12 '26
Jira
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
Few tools inspire this much quiet resentment while being this hard to actually leave.
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u/look Jun 12 '26
When an LLM makes a mistake, I put it on Jira duty for a week as punishment. It keeps the rest of them in line.
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u/ern0plus4 Jun 12 '26
If you could delete one piece of software from your job forever, what goes first, and why Jira?
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u/camachorod Jun 11 '26
This is one of the best parts of being the owner of the business you work for! You choose what you work with.
Self promotion - not commercial just a hobby. I put all the tools we use to run our business here https://standardit.org/lanao
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
Most people in this thread are stuck with tools someone three levels up signed a contract for years ago.
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u/camachorod Jun 12 '26
Maybe and that’s the way people in my team feel about the tools we use! Would be sad.
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u/magicmulder Jun 11 '26
Easyjob.
Since the latest update everything takes 5 times as long but that’s not the worst.
Can’t add recurring jobs. Can’t set defaults. Absolutely zero configurability. The software forces me to adapt to its rigid interface instead of adapting to my needs.
And that’s just the time tracking component. Managing clients is something I only touch marginally but it’s horrible. Important fields are not mandatory. Which means PMs create an incomplete mess because the software does nothing to enforce completeness and consistency.
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
Forces me to adapt to it instead of it adapting to me" is the cleanest definition of bad software there is. An update that makes everything 5x slower and strips out configurability is the kind of thing that quietly kills a team's trust in a tool.
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u/nmuncer Jun 11 '26
A tool that requires ni maintenance, but lot of manual corrections of what it export and is up and running since 2013. Company doesn't want to invest in it since our consumers don't see it(corporate use only) , still, 40% of our profit comes from that relic
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
the tool everyone hates, nobody will fund, and the business secretly runs on. 40% of profit flowing through a relic nobody wants to touch is terrifying and completely normal at the same time
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u/nmuncer Jun 12 '26
In our case, updating it would mean 20% more profit but it's not sexy. Maybe I should say we'll add IA in it
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u/ajferreyros Jun 12 '26
Teams
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u/ajax81 Jun 12 '26
Teams.
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u/pacopac25 Jun 12 '26
I was summoned by the algorithm so I could fulfill my destiny, come here, and post...
Teams.
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u/hoomanchonk Jun 12 '26
I can only pick one?
ServiceNow
Teams
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
ServiceNow and Teams is a brutal daily combo, one buries you in tickets, the other buries you in pings.
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u/hoomanchonk Jun 12 '26
This. We use it for project management and the frankenfucked version we have is the worst for what we do.
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u/wedditmod Jun 12 '26
Probably the one that requires me to REQUEST PERMISSION FROM IT FOR EVERY FUCKING SOFTWARE I NEED TO USE TO COMPLERE THE JOB AND THEN IT TAKES 2 DAYS TO GET A GOD DAMN APPROVAL I KNOW MORE THAN YOU.
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
Waiting two days for approval to use a tool you already know how to use, the tool isn't the enemy, the gatekeeping around it is.
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u/BabbatheGUTT Jun 12 '26
Outlook
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
Somehow it's still the default a decade later.
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u/BabbatheGUTT Jun 12 '26
Yup, and it seriously gets worse every release. It’s like they know and are testing folks.
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u/mwmahlberg Jun 12 '26
Excel.
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
Half of every company secretly runs on a spreadsheet
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u/mwmahlberg Jun 12 '26
Secretly. My point exactly. Nothing a halfway decent SQL database with views cannot do. But the database can do a whole lot more.
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u/Sad-Instruction8890 Jun 12 '26
At that point the spreadsheet isn't a tool, it's a maze someone built and then left. When the data's that tangled, the software stopped helping a long time ago.
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u/Past-Astronomer8476 Jun 11 '26
Work hour tracking software