Automating Time-Expensive Tasks
My coworker in HR is doing a lot of interesting tasks that require both people skills and mental sharpness. Payroll is not one of those. It’s a boring, soul-crushing job of reading a spreadsheet row by row, copying and pasting the value to a payroll template, followed by a long time at the printer.
On top of that, there are a few people working on that spreadsheet, which increase the chances of missing a revision or using an outdated copy. Being a friendly neighborhood IT staff, I’ve offered to make a better workflow for this process. It could be done locally with some heavy-duty scripting, but there are a few people who need direct access to the sheet. On top of that, I didn’t want to sink too much time in this side-task. Not every data-processing tool needs to be a 6-week development job with a list of dependencies long as the arm.
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