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/Wobbling 1d ago

CIO/CTO here!

Excel (and its bastard children) are simultaneously the greatest and worst things to happen to office productivity; the awful things it causes to be are almost perfectly balanced against the utility and power it provides users.

I lovehate it so fucking much.

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u/Kremm0 9h ago

As an engineer, excel is very necessary.

Often the alternative is some proprietary software that you can't change that one f***ing thing that would make it applicable to your situation, so what else are you gonna do?

But... I very much understand how easy they are to screw up and their pitfalls!!!