Closed wontfix: user wasn't even supposed to be there, let alone encounter that bug.

[azurelunatic]

Today my manager totally didn't encourage me to foment rebellion over a badly skinned ticketing system by posting comparison screenshots of the badly skinned version and the normal skin that people in various superuser roles get to use.

Related: today helpdesk told me that I shouldn't even be seeing the normal skinned areas or the homepage that's not the portal, because I shouldn't have permissions to see that. If that's so, then they have some problems. However, I suspect that they're fundamentally misapprehending the permissions model of the horrible bullshit system, because it seems to me like the brand-skinned version is pastede on yey, and my permissions just don't allow me to do anything fun with the non-portal homepage. And that they'd have to do terrible things in order to actually ban me from the normal skinned homepage without actually breaking my brand-skinned experience. And, more to the point, that they won't support any errors I encounter on the page I shouldn't be on.

By dint of calling helpdesk instead of responding to the IM, I was able to avoid the helpdesk dude who I had the terrible encounter with yesterday, even though he was still assigned to the ticket. The ticket which is, fortunately, closed. (Unfortunately, closed-wontfix.)


My manager had suspected that we weren't intended to know the normal skinned homepage, thus the inciting to foment rebellion.


The other day I'd had the conversation with Purple that went a little bit like:

Azz: Don't shove beets up your nose.
Purple: [incorrigement]
Azz: [you're terrible.]
Purple: Wait, do they still have the long roots on them?
Azz: Yes.
Purple: *cringes and flinches* [litany of refusal] Because there are some places you do not need to be touched by His Noodly Appendage, and the sinuses are one!
Azz: *doesn't quite fall over laughing*

Weirdly, when I mentioned this general concept to Madam Standards, she got grossed out a bit. Alas. Ah well! Purple and I have the same sort of terrible sense of humor!

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Purple was getting his home internet swapped over today, so he was working from home and pretty scarce online.

[silveradept]

Wait. Why do pages that aren't suppressed to exist exist in the first place?

[azurelunatic]

According to the helpdesk, they're only supposed to be for the superusers. I'm not supposed to see them, even though they're technically supposed to be there.

Although from my understanding, everyone's supposed to see them, just some people have access to see less *on* them.

[silveradept]

That sounds like a rebellion waiting to happen, even if implemented well.

[azurelunatic]

Currently I have installed Stylish and am ham-fistedly trying to see if I can reskin the horrible broken pages into the style of the non-broken ones. It's going poorly so far because I have no idea what I'm doing.