Sara Haataja

Edgar Hestnes

@yellowsnake109271 · Jan 11, 2026 8:09 pm

I just need to vent

I share a wall between offices with a new senior ops manager that is “revolutionizing” our manufacturing processes with technology.
**Excel.**
***He’s trying to make an ERP out of Excel.***
I suggested from the start that no matter how sure he is he can do it, that he is building himself into a World of Hurt™ and his vision ***may*** be possible if he’s the only one to use it ever. I offered him other methods, SQL database, Dataverse, even Access.
Nope.
> “Excel was build for this.”
It’s now 3+ months into this abomination, and they’re trying to implement it and it’s failing in all the ways I said it would. Dates entered “wrong.” Painful performance. Never ending spinners. Collaborative usage conflicts that can’t be auto fixed. On and on.
He’s scrambling. Getting defensive. Blaming lack of “real” database, etc.
I’m just collecting emails, chat logs, and even surveillance video of a convo caught in the hallway between us, about this very thing.
Fuck off, bus. I ain’t getting thrown under you by anyone.