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Through the start of the day i was cleaning up the towering piles of loose files in my office, entering them into our system and signing them locations to be refiled to. My boss called me up and told me to stop doing that, just create him a spreadsheet showing the data on them.

That's not easier. It's not quicker. It's not more helpful, especially to me and the other guy who works with me here. Entering the details into the system basically just requires scanning a barcode and copy-pasting some numbers, then typing out a sort sequence I've helpfully appended to each file already. Putting them in a spreadsheet required drawing up a table, scanning the barcodes, then i had to manually type out the details i had already written for each file. It just felt like such a pointless exercise, especially since i still have to go through the process i detailed before at some future date.

Okay, rant over.

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[–] AnActualFossil@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They're the default tool for everything.

Counting stuff? Spreadsheet.
Making a list? Spreadsheet.
Making a database? Spreadsheet.
Making a brochure? Spreadsheet.

(yes, I've seen all of those, and more)

[–] sollus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Storing passwords that the entire company can access? Spreadsheet.

[–] treeantlers 1 points 1 year ago

Woof, I’ve managed people at paperless companies and hadn’t even considered how painful bad management combined with physical files would be.

It’s one thing to have to pull a bunch of poorly-formatted data into a sheet… but seriously? Tracking physical files in a spreadsheet? What your boss is asking is for an entire new process, not a fun little suggestion.

And side note for your boss: stupid, poorly thought-out suggestions like “just create a spreadsheet” are how you end up with your people wasting 25 hours on a file that you’ll just leave sitting on your desktop and forget you ever asked for. If the boss wants a new system, it should be the boss’s job to develop it and implement it effectively. “Just put it in a spreadsheet?” Give me a break. Terrible management.

Now I’m ranting. That’s infuriating and I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.

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