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by MeinBlutIstBlau 1864 days ago
Best: Office politics is more about perception of doing work and less about actually doing work.

Worst: Apparently knowing how to use excel efficiently isn't better because manual calculations prevent errors.

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the damage from 1 excel error can be so risky that its better for the company to pay a person to do the entire thing manually and derisk. infuriating from the perspective of technics, but not from that of incerto
Doing calculations manually is orders of magnitude more likely to introduce errors.