Not in the same league as some posts , but....
earlier today, I was asked by one of the girls in the office to add a report to the system to show a list of jobs that used a certain material that we'd delivered this year. I told her I could get to the data quicker by simply querying the database directly and giving her the list in Excel or similar.
I was struggling to find a link between one of the tables and the table with the packaging sizes (they wanted it grouped by size). I'd found the table, but it was returning too many rows (I suspect an inner rather than an outer).
Her boss came over and said "she's really got to get on with this, so if you just give her a list of jobs, she can go through them manually". There were over 3000 jobs to go through, each one she'd have to load up in the system and click through many pages to get the info for each job.
In 10 minutes I could have had the whole thing done in SQL, but no, her boss would prefer her to spend the next 4-5 days going through the whole lot manually.
Daft as arseholes.
(dchurch bah, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 18:00, 1 reply)

Yeah
I've seen this a lot in some of the places I work. Even some of the IT businesses I worked in didn't quite get the idea that computers are made to do things quickly and easily.

They would happily go through printed files of data and amend it manually, even when the original data was extracted from an SQL database (ie a system designed to store, manage and modify mass data)
(stubbledchin, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 9:10, closed)