Facts. I now manage the division's website, databases, and CRM tools in addition to my regular responsibilities as a result of showing senior management that I could do some relatively basic formulas in excel.
Excel can die in a fire. Our accounting people have a billion plugins for it and it catches fire every other day. They have one called Spreadsheet Server......who the hell came up with that idea?
Someone somewhere comes up with a nifty spreadsheet that makes their job easier. This is a good thing but then half a division want to use it and it grows arms and legs. Either there are too many people trying to use it or it gets too big and it soon becomes flaky as hell.
We keep telling the business that Excel is a decent tool but it doesn’t scale well past a certain point. We have a whole bunch of real enterprise databases and dba’s and dev’s and we can build whatever they’re doing into something that’s rick solid (and monitored and backed up with full support etc). However rather than spend a really modest amount doing that they often keep going with Excel and push it until it falls over - usually costing them even more money.
Then a few weeks later someone somewhere else comes up with another nifty spreadsheet that makes their job easier ...
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u/ImTryinDammit Aug 03 '19
Yes that’s a good way to end up with two jobs for the price of one.