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does that mean that pitr | by Klymer | 2007-01-22 01:24:31 |
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Did he hack the company's DB? (n/t) | by oedlan | 2007-01-22 01:33:07 |
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No, he did -- Yes, he didn't | by SciSSorS | 2007-01-22 01:40:30 |
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by oldphart |
2007-01-22 02:43:12 |
Some HR applications seem to be self-hacking.
Once upon a time I worked for a company which invested in a Swedish "turnkey" system called Kollaflex. The HR department believed this to be the easy and safe way, getting something tested and tried instead of developing it in-house. The system was soon renamed Collargol by the employees, based on the perceived intellectual level of its developers.
The first thing we discovered was that it counted work periods modulo the maximum legal number of hours per day in Sweden. The HR people never saw that problem, since they hed a really long and tough day whenever they worked one hour overtime. Besides, the law in Norway was not all that different, so they certainly did not want to be told that people sometimes worked long hours. The IT and accounting departments, on the other hand, did not always have the option to leave before the job was finished.
Trying to get it fixed we discovered that the code was mask programmed in the embedded processor. This led to interesting workarounds, like registering out and the immediately in again when we went to eat at a good restaurant at company expense.
The software package that was used to accumulate data from the system also had a limit on the number of hours you could accumulate. The weird thing is that they managed to use decimal arithmetic in such a way that you went from 999 hours to -999 hours. On the other hand, working short hours was rewarded by going from -999 to 999 hours.
I do not think their HR department was ever again allowed to make purchases of anything on their own. |
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