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A point to note on Excel's empowerment I have discovered. The main reason for its ubiquity is because it's mostly already there and doesn't require the odious p
by uncledave 6y ago
A point to note on Excel's empowerment I have discovered. The main reason for its ubiquity is because it's mostly already there and doesn't require the odious purchase order process to be navigated and then an odious IT onboarding process navigated. So fuck that, let's just cram another turd into Excel. That sort of overlaps with your IT request thing but at a higher level I think.
- tomrod 6y agoWe economists call this rational, as folks are minimizing their costs. IT says no to or unnecessarily complicates acquiring a needed product? Fine. In Excel it goes. It never matters how un-auditable the mess is. That never enters the calculus.
- sam_bristow 6y agoYou could also say that it's IT externalising their costs. They don't want to be responsible for another system, so all the work and maintenance gets pushed on to end users.
- tomrod 6y agoIndeed!