What the most uncooperative inanimate object you've ever been forced to work with?

I am a fire safety officer in the fire department where I work. We have to key in the results of our inspections into the system. It's not so bad anymore, but here's what we had to deal with for the whole 3 years I was there:

  • At least 2 pictures have to be uploaded. Only have one relevant one? Upload it twice!

  • Each action used to take a few minutes to process. Need to open a new tab in the system? Wait a few minutes. Wanna close this tab and save? Wait a few minutes. Wanna remove that picture you accidentally uploaded? Wait a few minutes. Wanna edit the details of the inspection? Wait a few minutes. At its worst, it became roughly 10 minutes per action.

  • Sometimes saving doesn't do shit, especially when the system decides to crash (see below)

  • The system randomly crashes. We tried to find out what causes it to crash, but the only thing we got is that it'll tend to crash when you upload your first picture or after attempting to close the tab after uploading all your pictures

My colleague (who does the same job as me) and I are known to rage at the computers when nonsense like the above happens. I've smashed the computer screen onto the table before. I found out first hand that LCD monitor screens are actually pretty durable.

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