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That'd be the president of the company (we're a small mechanical engineering firm), and he's even worse. He vetoed the request from my boss to upgrade to MS Off
by nether 13y ago
That'd be the president of the company (we're a small mechanical engineering firm), and he's even worse. He vetoed the request from my boss to upgrade to MS Office 2013. We're on a mix of XP/2003 right now, and Excel+Word are the lifeblood of our work.
- scrabble 13y agoSounds like he'd be better. Especially if the veto was done with concern over cost. He'd likely appreciate how much cost this automation could save him.
- jacalata 13y agoSo your manager just suggested that you upgrade all your machines from XP to windows 7, and upgrade office from 2003 to 2013? That's not necessarily kneejerk stupidity - did your manager include a list of benefits from upgrading, against a cost analysis, and allow for a test run of trying to run all your existing spreadsheets (presumably more complex than just a few numbers!) on the new system, or just say 'hey we should get a new version of everything we use, it won't cause any downtime' and the boss said like hell it won't? I think upgrading is probably a good idea, but it's definitely not a no-brainer 'ok do it tomorrow' idea.