[superhans2]

Sounds familiar. I had a client once, who had to reboot one particular router every day because it stopped working after 8h uptime. So one of their employees did that every morning by logging into some server via remote desktop to click the "reboot" button. I asked why they don't use some kind of cron job to automate that task, they just said "it doesn't work that way, you have to do it manually".

[in9]

Some people are anti-automation.

I am an economist, turned into "data scientist" since I've learned to program in the past 5 years (hate that name...).

At a macro consultancy firm I worked, everybody lost it when I suggested that we moved our manually downloaded data from a bunch of excel spreadsheets to a proper database (28 years of macroeconomic data) so that we could programatically extract data for online reports we sent/hosted. They said I was being lazy...

[tudorconstantin]

I hope you took that as a compliment. Laziness is a virtue in programming, according to Larry Wall: http://threevirtues.com/