They would pine for the last baby, their revisionist minds suppressing all memories of the foul slurs they spewed out at that baby when it was here.īut, alas, the Gods of Budget (radio voice) rarely throw down those funds. This baby will be difficult to replace.Īnd let's face it - even if the Gods of Budget (use a radio voice for that phrase) gave you one of those giant Publishers Clearing House checks and empowered you to unilaterally choose a new baby and implement it using alien magic, people would still call that baby ugly. Even without involvement from the baby's caretakers, this baby is now important to other people in the organization. Other groups have found ways to connect to it, to obtain and use data from it. Its tentacles reach into areas even the people who manage it don't know about. The longer a baby has been in place, the more it will take to supplant it. ![]() I've worked for giant companies and I've worked for smaller ones and this is a universal truth. So many resources all have to get on board. It requires buckets of money and lots of resources - not just resources from your own team, but the IT guys and the PMO guys and the massage therapists and mental health workers. It's harder than it seems like it should be, so unless you've lived it you probably don't understand. (Sidenote: Will somebody do something about that ugly baby, PLEASE?)Ĭhange is slow on these enterprise solutions. With oxy-clean technology and fold-down seats.Īnd thank goodness, right? If we didn't, we'd all still be using SharePoint. I promise to love, honor, and cherish it."īut we don't cherish the babies we have. Where is the breadcrumb trail? WHY MUST I CLICK SAVE ON EVERY DUMB TAB? Stupid, ugly baby. Who made these menus? There's no hover-help. "I hate this baby! It has a stupid design. They just want to hold it in their arms again, rock it, and whisper apologies. Maybe the last baby wasn't so ugly after all. But now that it's gone and there is this new uglier baby? They loooooove the last baby and miss it terribly. They hated the last baby when it was here, it's true. I mean, they probably do but I'm not allowed to say that.)īut - these same people redeem themselves a little by getting nostalgic about the last baby. (Sidenote: These opinions are solely my own and do not necessarily represent the view of my employer. That's because people are kind of assholes sometimes. You could replace that baby a hundred times and people are going to call every one ugly. Actually, I have many but let's focus, shall we? Whatever baby people are currently looking at is going to get criticized as ugly. I will not be taking any questions at this time, thank-you.) (Sidenote: It's important to tell you that my knowledge of Chaos Theory comes solely from Jeff Goldblum in Jurrassic Park. Listen - we all go into this baby making stuff with the best of intentions, but the world, including its ugly babies, is governed by Chaos Theory. And I try hard not to comment on your baby with that giant wart on its nose and ears that stick out. I've had my baby called ugly many times, by many people. ![]() ![]() I have implemented and supported workplace automation tools in the area of procure-to-pay for 25 years so I know about ugly babies. ![]() "This baby used to be SO much uglier!" they cry. Maybe the developer or the designer, the person or people who chose it after an exhaustive effort, or the people who inherited it as a hot mess and made it way better than it used to be and feel salty about how the critics don't even know how many hours of hard work they put into it. I have no idea the origin, but it's often used to criticize a tool or platform used in the workplace, directed to the person or people who have some pride of ownership of that tool. I Googled it to find out, but the search results were loaded down by insecure mothers posting concerns about their babies' aesthetic inferiority and one father posting "Look how ugly my kid is? LOL." I've heard this ugly-baby phrase used in business for years, but I don't know the etymology of it. I know because I've asked my share of them. Some people say no baby is ugly but those are probably the same people who say there's no such thing as a dumb question. And those babies in the banner above? Adorable! I didn't meant them, either.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |