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The company I work (an insurance corp) for also mandates IE use not only for itself, but for agents and providers. Thus, the outward-facing website has: 73% I
by GFischer 14y ago
The company I work (an insurance corp) for also mandates IE use not only for itself, but for agents and providers.
Thus, the outward-facing website has:
73% IE
21% Chrome
5% Firefox
1% the rest
while the intranet is 100% IE obviously (and it's VBScript-based).
I've pitched the last 3 IT bosses, but they don't want to hear and don't care about the Web (not even as a sales channel). I wish I could disrupt the industry, but it's basically a monopoly (you need government leverage and a lot of money to get in). I'll leave my job as soon as I can (I don't want to move sideways into a similar job, as the local laws harshly penalize switching jobs - you lose all unemployment benefits, pension, holidays, etc.)
- legutierr 14y agoDo you mind if I ask where you live? Loosing your pension and unemployment when you leave your job sounds very harsh.
- GFischer 14y agoI live in Uruguay. I don't lose what I paid so far in pension, but I "switch" pension funds when I switch industries, so unless I get work at another bank, some special rules apply. When you switch jobs voluntarily, the unemployment benefits and holidays "counters" reset, so if you get fired within the first 3 months you get nothing, during the 1st year afterwards you get 1 month unemployment, etc.. This does not happen if you get fired (I'm currently almost unfireable since the company has to pay me the maximum amount of pay by law if I get fired without a serious offense, 12 months of my salary in addition to accrued wages). This of course makes switching jobs once you have job security very hard.