Government agencies being "extremely behind the times" is the rule, not the exception. Their budgets are tied to "number of butts in seats", and automating thi

Government agencies being "extremely behind the times" is the rule, not the exception. Their budgets are tied to "number of butts in seats", and automating things has to be sold to them on the merits of freeing up the butts to do other things, never ever laying the butts off to save money. Your story is a common one. Big corporations also tend to get like this, especially banking/insurance. The Excel to Excel/VBA/Access to developer path is a very common one, and you tend to get devs out of it who have strong domain knowledge in business.