Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

Re:Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel re... by codeulike on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:47AM (#37954471)

Spreadsheet stacks are actually effective - and often robust if the Copy Paste technician has a little bit of nous

This is true. Sounds like they have cobbled together a system using Excel because thats why you have to do when processes change all the time.

The alternative is to find a 'proper' HR system to handle all the weird custom processes which is a massive three year project that costs tens of millions and then probably fails to deliver.

IT people complain about people cobbling things together in Excel but in the short and medium term thats usually the only way for people to get shit done

But yes management dropped the ball and should have had some checks and balances. No-one realised that every candidate from Wales got rejected? Thats a clanger.

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Re:Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel re... by DharmaPolice on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:56AM (#37954524)

>IT people complain about people cobbling things together in Excel but in the short and medium term thats usually the only way for people to get shit done

This is true, and why I think it's a shame we never got a real replacement for Microsoft Access (not necessarily the functionality of Access but its intended purpose).

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Re:Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel re... by pjc50 on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:39AM (#37954827)

If only there was a simple system for producing a database-driven set of screens in a webapp. It's the one thing which seems to have got worse since the eras of dBASE and FoxPro.

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