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Re:Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018) by andersa on Sunday July 23, 2023 @09:06AM (#36834950)
My personal favorite is the website for reporting large international transactions, which can only be using during regular working hours on weekdays.
Re:Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018) by scanny on Sunday July 23, 2023 @02:06PM (#36837968)
What exactly is that? Is it for moving savings from a non-eu country into Germany ?
Re:Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018) by andersa on Sunday July 23, 2023 @03:20PM (#36838722)
This thingy: https://extranet.bundesbank.de/ams

How they describe it: https://www.bundesbank.de/en/service/reporting-systems/exter...

Any single transaction exceeding 12500€ entering (or leaving) Germany has to be manually reported here. So for example if you're living in Germany and working remotely as a contractor for a US based company you'll probably have to report your income every month.

There are many exceptions that don't need manual reporting though, like if you're buying physical goods from overseas. I guess those are already automatically tracked through other ways.

For fun, I just tried to login at ~9:30 PM local time on a Sunday, and it said:

"Access Denied"

"You cannot access the resource you have requested at this time."

"The resource you have requested is protected by a policy restricting access to specific time periods. Your request has occured outside of those permitted time periods."

Re:Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018) by pimeys on Sunday July 23, 2023 @03:41PM (#36838965)
For some of us, using a middle company such as Deel might be a good idea. They take some money for that, but you get a real German contract and don't have to care dealing with the local bureaucracy.
Re:Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018) by tentacleuno on Sunday July 23, 2023 @08:30PM (#36841550)
> This thingy: https://extranet.bundesbank.de/ams

My favourite thing on that website is the script block inside a noscript tag that they actually expect to run. Things like that tend to suggest the developers have absolutely no idea how to code for a web browser.

Re:Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018) by jarym on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:25AM (#36892396)
That's one way to implement a feature flag I guess, not the way many sane people would choose.