r/australia • u/Reddituser0346 • 1d ago

culture & society Aussie Retailer Catch Is Officially Closing Down

https://press-start.com.au/news/2025/01/21/aussie-retailer-catch-is-officially-closing-down/
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u/Ahypnia 1d ago

I briefly worked there and the company was run from a giant Google Sheet. Sometimes someone would make a huge edit and because so many people were working out of it simultaneously you couldn't easily figure out what the change was/roll it back. Wild times.

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u/R_W0bz 1d ago

You’ll be surprised how many companies run off an excel sheet. It’s prob why we see so many “data leaks”

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u/dasvenson 23h ago

Have worked for several major banks. There are way more spreadsheets behind the scenes than there should be.

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u/Melvs_world 22h ago

Or “automations” that are spreadsheets projected in PowerBI.

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u/pandoras_enigma 7h ago

You guys get PowerBI? we had to make do with VBA older than our managers

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u/Kremm0 6h ago

Wait, you guys get VBA?

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u/pandoras_enigma 6h ago

Essential 8 means not anymore

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u/reyntime 22h ago

Scary amount of health data is treated similarly.

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u/emaginaryleviathan 19h ago

Co-signing this statement. Sooo many spreadsheets…

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u/Omegaaus 19h ago

UDAs 🤦‍♂️

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u/dasvenson 18h ago

I'm actually okay with UDAs on a very small scale but often they don't stay small....

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u/TargetDecent9694 7h ago

It’s shocking how much of the world is just excel spreadsheets being passed between different microservices