i cant stand PEP! or: how i learned to suffer a slow death, and miss OnQ.
ill never forget my first look at PEP, i thought "am i working at a hotel, or am hosting at Applebees?" id been complaining about the limitations and road blocks id run into with OnQ for years, but i thought, hey, could be worse, could be using Fosse. but after using PEP for a couple years... idk anymore, maybe Fosse isnt so bad, sure it feels weird to be using DOS Format, but its a conversation starter, that you use a system older than the person you are talking to.
but at least you dont feel like you should actually be a coder to understand when something goes wrong. i think my favorite thing about PEP is when you get an error message that doesnt tell you whats wrong or how to fix it, but instead contains unintelligible code, random letters, numbers, and punctuation. that helps me do my job at 2am with some angry, tired, Karen staring holes into the top of my head. admittedly PEP is better about this now, but only better in comparison to how it launched, when EVERY error message was just code.
which reminds me how it was launched globally, in what was obviously an Alpha state, congratulations Front Desk Employees and Night Auditors, while you thought you were only doing your job, but you were actually also doing free labor as a tester! id put that on your Resume.
ok i lied, my actual favorite part of using PEP is that it times out. i love signing in every time i have to use it, especially with my new password that requires 12 characters! so fun!, not annoying at all!
i could literally go on forever about all the little inconveniences but suffice to say, i miss OnQ so much, OnQ is "the one that got away" when i think about it, i hear Poison in my head.