Having worked for a state government which maintained data for federal submissions in 15 different versions of the same giant excel file on 15 different computers, it's scary how accurate this is.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I've worked at private companies where this is the case too lol.

This is true even when better software would work instead of the one-size-fits-all-but-isn't-suitable Excel.

Often to get it to work the way I want is through VBA scripting. And at that point I should be using other software but companies are cheap and don't want to invest in better tech.