universities: we bought all new software to do the same thing you already do now with ease. It completely sucks and cost us 13 million dollars.
Fucking Coupa.
Hospitals: hold my beer
And the software doesn't match our current procedures so you're going to have to learn a whole new set of rules that we just made up.
Man, that is seriously close to home. #HigherEd#academia
ALT: Its Hitting Me Hard Jon Langston GIF
And now we will have to eliminate five humanities departments, whatcha gonna do
And of course the new software will require that staff, faculty, and students all sit through countless workshops and training sessions in order to hit the same productivity level they had with the old software.
*we will solve this by taking money from your unit to give ourselves raises
...and, as usual, they were duped by Microsoft?
“We have added security so you can only login to the software from a university IP address. No we did not consult any professors if they do any work from home. We just assume all you do is teach classes and get up on desks yelling poetry like that movie. So no more doing work from home. “
Reminds me of an old comic: Sales rep: Our new software is in compliance with all actual regulations and has all the features… IT guy: So it‘s useless and extremely expensive? SR: Can I talk to someone less competent? IT guy: Boss‘s office is one floor up to the right