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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What is stopping you from proposing better software?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Mainly corporate momentum.

The decision to shift out of the microsoft is too costly at this point for even medium sized businesses to consider.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Management.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Nothing. It's the listening bit from the receiving end that's the problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Never worked in a corporate environment?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure I have.

If you spin it by saying it would improve productivity, they'll listen and pretend it was their idea all along.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Or (way more likely) they'll just not listen or find excuses. That's how large corporations work. Do you really think, you'd be the first one to propose that maybe excel isn't the best tool for the job?