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Jira and confluence
I'd say Atlassian products in general. Jira has had a notorious bug for nearly a decade (still ongoing, I believe) that would delete a description/comment if you accidentally hit escape in the middle of writing it. Bitbucket also changed the term "blame" to "annotate" because "blame" was a strong word that hurts feelings (seriously, this is the reason) and didn't bother telling anyone until people started wondering w…
Every program in the Microsoft Office suite.
Compared to what?
Ask yourself this: When was the last time you truly needed MS Office to produce something of value? Not imaginary enterprise “I look busy so I must be getting things done” value... but true value.
In the distant past, Solaris 9 for x86 on a laptop. I was younger (and dumber) then. Took much longer than 100 hrs and aged me beyond death.
All my own open-source projects. Thousands of hours wasted
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I'm with you. My org tries to do so many things with excel, despite that fact that is fails and breaks on us ever single day. What is worse, is that we use excel sheets and a shared folder to monitor projects, tasks, and even track casework. I hate it so much.
Yeah don't get me started on versioning, lol. bondspricing_final_2_withswaptions_final_final5.xls. In a folder with 25 similarly named files. Good luck tracing the diffs. But I guess that's not specifically Excel that causes this, it's people not understanding versioning.
Version control has been "solved" for the better part of 20 years but the tools are awkward and only make sense if you're a software developer.
People unironically suggest you should learn more about tree structures to understand and work with git. That's just about acceptable for developers, but for non-developers that's a complete no-go.
One day there'll be a killer GUI for git or svn (or even just basic whole-file linear version histories) but until then, people are doomed to email files named like Presentation_FINAL_2_EJB_Edit.xlsx sitting under a "FINAL - DO NOT DELETE" folder.
WYSIWYG editors... worst: confluence, bottom: desktop office suites, still bad: google docs
Oh my goodness: #### that WYSIWYG editor in Confluence hard. It's like an extremely buggy version of Word 95. I've outright banned its use in our company.