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[โ€“] Godnroc@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At one job we had a digital form for new user requests. This existed for auditing purposes, but it also helped to collect all the necessary information for the change. I was always impressed at how people managed to fill it out wrong every single time.

For example, I would get a request to update someone's name and they would fail to include the former name or the new name or even enter their OWN name for one of the fields.

What I learned is no system is idiot proof, no form will ever be filled out perfectly, and everything will need manual intervention at some point.

[โ€“] sepi@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I often wonder how it is that we have these many people employed