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Workday Sidebar

Pins a sidebar to every Workday page telling you whose record you are actually looking at and their employee ID — a five-tier selector cascade survives UI reskins.

Chrome MV3 / no build step / 5-tier selector cascade

This one needs a backend or a desktop environment, so it cannot run inside a web page.

How it works

Workday rotates its data-automation-id values on every reskin, so the name and employee ID are pulled through a five-tier selector cascade that falls through on each miss. The nastiest trap: pageHeader and appHeader are nearly identical in structure, but appHeader holds the logged-in user rather than the employee whose record you are viewing. A single OR-joined selector lets appHeader win the race — and the sidebar then confidently displays entirely the wrong person.