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I had the opposite experience. At a previous company, one dev spent about 2-3 hours every single day to download PDFs with bank reports and then manually doing
by pier25 3y ago
I had the opposite experience.
At a previous company, one dev spent about 2-3 hours every single day to download PDFs with bank reports and then manually doing the conciliation.
I thought this was ridiculous. One afternoon I made a quick desktop app where he could drop the PDFs and get some JSONs back with all the data. The idea was that he then could semi automate the concilition with those JSONs.
Years later I left that company and he still was wasting all that time doing manual conciliation.
- charlie0 3y agoYep, adoption is another major issue. I'm shocked at the number of people who continue wasting hours because they don't don't want to learn the newer faster way.
- creakingstairs 3y agoIt’s learned helplessness. They learned that doing the job faster is not only reward-less but only gets them more work.
- shpongled 3y agoThat sounds like a major skill or motivation issue. I wouldn't want a "dev" who spent 2-3 hours a day doing something like this manually working with me.