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If their time was actually wasted, paying a few or several thousand dollars for a tool would have been profitable a long time ago. Usually, there are hidden pa

• simonw 2y ago
  The people who are spending time manually doing a task that could be handled by a program are usually the exact same people who don't have the experience (or authority) to be able to say "this is a thing that could be automated with a tool if we paid a few thousand dollars to develop it". Hiring someone to remodel a bathroom is hard enough, now try hiring a contract software engineer, especially when you don't have budget authority! That said, I heard about a fire chief last year who had to spend two days manually copying and pasting from one CRM to another. I wish I could help people like that know when to pay someone to write a script! I imagine even in that role figuring out how to hire someone so solve a problem would still take longer than manually crunching through that themselves.