Data entry lols
I once - admittedly many years ago - saw a tv program showing how amazing modern computer techniques were. It was at the Ordnance Survey, producing maps.

One computer would produce a schematic map, which was then printed out on a large plotter. An operator would then go over this paper printout with a mouse-like crosshair, clicking the data points back into a different computer...

I think the sound of facepalming shifted the earth's orbit slightly.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 11:16, 1 reply)

Data entry is fine
if you don't have an engineering degree. Seriously, they could have paid someone a third of what I made and had it done just as easily!

The real reason they had me doing this? Purchasing was very set in their ways with how things got submitted. They could have automatically exported the BOM to Excel and had it go through, but then Purchasing would have to sort through and strike out what wasn't needed.

And yeah, digitizing maps like that is idiotic. Even in the 80s I could transfer from one CAD platform to another.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 27 Feb 2012, 14:02, closed)