So I got up at 5:00 this morning to do a job I’ve been putting off: the community college district sent, to everyone who has applied for a job there, a notice that if you want to stay in the system you have to go back to the HR site and re-enter all the data you’d already uploaded. They’ve made some sort of change, and in doing so erased everyone’s data and required everyone to jump through their endless set of hoops again. This considerate move apparently comes to us courtesy of PeopleSoft, the bureaucracy’s bureaucracy.
It took an hour and forty minutes to complete the needless, pointless chore. I quit early because the system would not allow me to upload the hideous, endless “CT” document: a form in which you have to enter every…single…college…course you have ever taken. Lower-division, upper-division, and graduate. D’you know how many courses you end up taking in pursuit of a Ph.D.????? This thing consumed over two hours the first time I did it, and I will be damned if I’m going to waste another two hours doing it all over again.
In addition to typing each course number, course title, number of credits, semester, and year of every course you’ve ever taken in your life, you also have to turn in official transcripts, rendering the stupefyingly time-wasting list redundant.
Maybe they’ve decided to give up on that stunt. Probably not, though: they still have the blank form posted for you to download.
What excuse is there for PeopleSoft? Its metafunction evidently is demonstrate that employers do not give one thin damn about their workers: any company or institution that would offload HR and payroll tasks to an outfit that treats people this way cannot wish any good to its employees.
LOL! Someone once said that “bureaucracy exists to serve itself.” What on earth it’s serving remains to be seen!
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Oh lord. I get annoyed with forms that ask me for contact information for the last ten years of my employed life, much less school information. I don’t know if I even have any of that anymore. Guess I should make sure I scan at least one set of transcripts before I chuck the rest of my paper records!
What a pain! Is it true? Was your pain tolerance higher because it was completed in the morning?