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Re:Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or wors... by MeinBlutIstBlau on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:34PM (#27162096)
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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Re:Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or wors... by 1234throwaway on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:37AM (#27162419)
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
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Re:Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or wors... by bufferoverflow on Saturday May 15, 2021 @05:12AM (#27163637)
Doing calculations manually is orders of magnitude more likely to introduce errors.
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