Try adding Status to a list of Jira tickets and you will not be able to see the values in the Status column. PLEASE FIX ASAP. This makes it extremely difficult to manage tasks when supervisors expect perfect allocation and settings for every task for the next month.
There are many improvements that could be made to Jira in support of maintaining multiple tasks easily. In fact, it seems like no one at Atlalsian has even thought about allowing modification of multiple tasks at once...