I would just like to say ...

[unixronin]

...that Peoplesoft needs some quality time with a spiked club and a cattle prod.  It's a classic example of job application "aids" that create ten times as much work for the applicant as a simple tool that just does the job, in order to collect a huge amount of information that's not relevant for what you're trying to do, scattering the whole process with mandatory fields with a fixed list of response options none of which is applicable, just so that the selection decisions can be made by some moron who knows nothing about the job but has a checklist of which buttons to click on the search form.

And as if the inherent vices of peoplesoft weren't bad enough, the infernal piece of crap is timing out my session every time I pause to think, because its 60-minute inactivity timeout is going off every 60 fucking seconds.

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[robbat2.livejournal.com]

ooh and don't try to tab between fields when trying to fill them out quickly, because depending on which peoplesoft app you are using, it will go back to the previous field to 'verify' it, and delete the contents of the next field that you just filled in!

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

In my current consulting job, I'm creating PeopleSoft queries, then making Crystal reports to display the data pulled by those queries.

I hate making PeopleSoft queries.

PeopleSoft doesn't let you write the SQL yourself -- it lets you look at the SQL, but you can't touch it. You have to use its wizard/interface, which helpfully sets up unions you do not want, indicates criteria you do not want, and generally makes a nuisance of itself.

@%^# PeopleSoft!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's another case of "a bad solution all round, foisted by managers and salesmen upon the people who actually have to use it".