Ah, corporate life.

It is possible to think of having a corporate parent as having a codependancy with a parasite. We've been wallowing under the weight of a non-competitive, crap-ass public facing software which is mandated by the corporate parent. Plus we have to pay out the nose for the privelege. Better yet, the software is a red-headed stepchild of a department that basically answers to no one.

Today a couple of analytical folks came in from corporate to hear our complaints. Their promise is to help design a new version of the system based on interviewing local sites. Except, they've already designed it and will complete coding in a couple months. The new version theoretically debuts in January. They even have documentation.

In the meantime, I face the prospect of all the hacks and workarounds I made becoming useless in January. Oy.