Ugh. So one of my co-workers is out of the office, and I've been tasked to update one of his projects. I go into it and am flummoxed by just how inefficient everything is. He insists on making things more difficult for himself, even though I proposed some time-saving measures years ago.
As a generic example, there is a table outlining important information. Some of that information is to be published for the company to view while the other information is for our use only. I suggested a conditional tag on the rows containing information that do not display when we publish. So how would you do that?
His solution was to have Row 1 be visible, Row 2 be invisible, Row 3 be visible, Rows 4 and 5 be invisible, and so on. And he has to apply that each and every time a new process is started. He hasn't even applied the conditional tag on the template used to create new processes. At the very least, arrange the table so that all nonpublished information is together so you just apply the tag once. I mean, this is the pinnacle of ensuring job security.
I'm tempted to go in there and change things up while he's gone, but he gets pissy when anything changes, even if it's for the better. I'll just wait until he retires in 6 months. I'll inherit his crap anyway. I'm not looking forward to that, but I will be so happy when I'm done cleaning it up.