I once looked through a textbook from my friend's MBA course. The first thing I noticed was in a highlighted box in the chapter on business negotiating: "Your skill at negotiating will affect the outcome of the negotiations."

These are the people that make 10X what I make.

I learned this in my first statics class, and I have a BS in business administration.

It would be funnier if the genie says "there are two rules"

I once worked for a Japanese company where I had to make a presentation. In Excel, I shit you not. Then we had one of our "shadow" managers make a Japanese translation of the same thing. It took me two days to get the kerning and print layout right, especially with that weird english typeface that is Japanese standard, I hate to think how long the translator took to get their version right.

I only ever encountered Access was once many years ago and I was warned that it had issues with multiple users.

Employers get what they demand, what they deserve. Anyway excel works as a database until around 1 million entries...

I feel you. Working in healthcare, ms office is the only thing consistently installed site wide I can take advantage of to run a db.

I work as a network tech for a globally spanning ISP specializing in fiber services, handling major maintenances that are service effecting for business and government customers (SLAs are in effect). These maintenances are planned and tracked through various excel sheets - housed either in a shared network drive (so yeah, we may run into issues where multiple people are trying to edit the same doc at once), or excel tables in a SharePoint.

Prior to the merger of companies I recently went through, we had actual database systems to track this stuff that worked just fine. And now we're relying on the same shit a grad student would use to track their doctorate progress. It'll work until it doesn't. Looking forward to the shit-show if it gets me overtime.

How about last week?

Why yes this comic made me think of our users, why do you ask?

Fun fact: most of the electronic voting machines in the 2000 presidential election used Access to store vote counts. Access, the "database" with a user-editable audit table.

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I mean it's a simple file format so it'll perform better because it doesn't have to decode any complex formats or protocols.

Big O? Never heard of it!

Even Genie have standards.

I mean it will work, but for a blog I'd store the pages in markdown files, to make it easier to edit. For context, look into how Hugo works