Work thoughts

Published: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:38:49 -0800

"How do I complain about specific things about my job, without doxxing where I work?"

I work at a college that has its own online learning platform. This platform is quite shit.

There was a bug that was causing quiz submissions to not work, just a white screen would appear and the whole page would crash. Quizzes are still marked as "in beta", despite pretty much every course requiring them.

It took 3 days to fix, why didn't they just roll back to the previous version where the issue didn't exist?

There is no way to "reset" a quiz for a single student without hitting api endpoints with postman. Each reset request has to be handled by IT and only 3 of us know how to do it. It has been this way for over a year, despite the api endpoint existing and functioning well.

But they just added emoji reactions to messages!!

The default interface doesn't fit on the low-resolution laptop screens the school provides to students. They developed an alternative and better interface layout, which has been hidden away in settings for over a year and a half.

Each semester there is a flood of students who can't see their assignments tab for the first 2 weeks before they eventually reach out to IT, and we tell them how to switch to the new interface.

I can go on about how the software (and the company) is deeply flawed, but I think you get the idea.

It's one thing for a startup tech platform to have bugs, but the "move fast, break things" approach doesn't work well when those bugs result in hindering someone's education.

And they need to work on that whole moving fast part