Unbelievable, this is why I love HN! I used to work at IBM and spent a lot of my time automating stuff and doing BI in cognos and db2. There was so much inneficiency, so much manual work.

I remember being quite proud of coming up with a new report or some vba script to automate something.

I felt like I was one of the few actually "thinking"!

Later I realised that most people weren't interested in doing a better job, their sole focus was in protecting their job! The naïveté of youth!