I HATE...

...logins!!! Today is the first day of employment benefit enrollment for year 2007. Being a ealy starter I thought I should do it now instead of wait fof later... I was quite a procrastinator when I was a kid...

Login to new benefit site, create new account (I thought I had one last year...anyways, no problem...) So, I tried to create new account, need password, etc etc, but it won't accept my universal password I use everywhere at work. It just keeps saying it's in wrong format, what the frack! My universal passwd has mixed cases, charaters and numbers and even a special character - just like any good engineer would use. But, it didn't wortk here. So, I removed special character, it still didn't work! Now I'm more frustrated, since it didn't give me any hint of what's accepted... So, I tried some all number password, and it worked. Great... or maybe NOT... Now I have one more password to remember... frack...What the heck?! What's the reason that they won't allow user to use characters? Not allow special characters, I can somewhat accept, but why reject characters?! Numbers or letters, it's all stored in the database, the computer don't give a frack... And it's all encrypted... should be... so it should be stored as characters anyway... Unless, they store the password as numeric numbers - then it would be clear text ... holy cow... some shitty security measure...

Another grip, why the hack do I create account every year?! Say if they changed supplier, I must create new account. Why the frack everyone has different rules on what's accpeted, what not! User name I can understand that need some restriction, but what the frack wrong with what password I use, they're not going to create an user account for me on some Linux/Windows OS - so it must be able to be typed in on termnal, so why does it even matter?!

Now I'm in, it asked me to create challenge question/answer. The default is "What color is your first car?" Mmmm, Mitubishi Sigma, red... type in "red", click next, it says "Value must be between 4 and 20 characters." Hello! Why don't you just say "Enter any color besides red.". My friend J suggested "burgundy", but it's not the right color; so, he suggest "candy apple red", I guess the validation would say "No space allowed..."; so J suggested "strawberry", then I guess it would complain "Not a color." ROFL! At least there're more questions, so I don't have to use "rojo"...*sigh* OK, see If I can pick a ddifferent question.

Great, timeout... starting over...