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Working in Truro
Graduate with BSc (Hons) in Computer Systems and Networks
pm : london.pm, bath.pm, devoncornwall.pm
lug : Devon & Cornwall LUG
CPAN : TEEJAY [cpan.org]
irc : TeeJay
skype : hashbangperl
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Wednesday September 21, 2005
08:23 AM
Places where the webdevelopers should be fired #3 of 2312
So many people in large public organisations and businesses manage to fuck up perfectly simple websites and applications.
- Jobcentre Plus - Still broken in FireFox, requires IE, even with IE shows out of date or useless results - manages to be less convenient than walking to the jobcenter yourself.
- Cornwall County Council - Cannot apply for a job online unless you use IE and have vbscript enabled, most of the advertised jobs (which require you to navigate through at least 5 links) are internal only. Broken links for job descriptions add to the sense of futility.
- The PostOffice / Royal Mail - Broken in Firefox, after eventually using IE and getting to the bit where you apply are told to telephone the people who told you to use the website.
- Comet - Job application doesn't work online in IE or Firefox.
I just noticed how bad this was when my wife was jobhunting for my father in law and repeatedly asked for help where websites totally failed to work or display
Really - how hard can it be? This is for really really simple stuff - collecting applicant information online and linking it to a job - all the hard work is still done manually. *sigh*
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