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    People who refuse to learn Excel

    I recently took over a role from an accounting manager at a new company. This company is large and has 25 sub companies if you will that are all treated as individual entities however all the expenses are typically paid from one operating account. This person would spend at least 8 hours per week creating/typing/and manually editing the weekly Payable report. When I was training with him I very kindly pointed out how much easier and efficient this task would be if he would use Excel. He told me he has no use for Excel and didn't care to learn it... This person is someone who grew up with technology... I didn't even know how to respond. It was SO difficult sitting there watching him the entire day manually edit a report that could have easily been simplified using basic Excel like data sorting, a very basic pivot table and a few sum formulas.

    Things that make you go hmmmm

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    It is a good change to promote for you, LOL
    Quang PT

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    In my experience, people like the one you’ve described are simply set in their ways, the operative word being “their.” Doing it any other way, even if that other way is an objectively better one, takes away whatever perceived ownership and control they have over a given task and diminishes their worth, Excel being the harbinger of the inevitable robot overlords coming to replace us all…

    That, or their staunch rigidity is simply a front for one who’s simply afraid of change and/or afraid they won’t be able to adapt. For all that Excel and like tools are able to simplify, this forum’s existence is evidence of the learning curve and the levels of complexity that might need traversed on the way to said ease, and that can be daunting. I myself am FAR from being an expert in Excel when compared to the likes of the Experts and Gurus around here, yet I am seen as a veritable Excel genius to many of my peers and even superiors who can’t be bothered to “see how the hot dogs are made,” and just want an easily digestible file with a pretty graph or chart that tells the story they need to hear.

    Still, for every one of those, I can think of scores of others who I’ve been able to help that were genuinely grateful when I showed them how to turn a ten minute task into a ten second one with a simple formula!

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    IMO,
    - you've 10 minutes to do it
    - if not your money going half down
    - if not again your money going 3/4 down
    - if not again you are fired

    or start to learn

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    you've 10 minutes to do it
    it means a boss can do it in 5.
    i wish i saw one.

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    The boss is supposed to manage and since then has employees. That's why he's the boss the company is not an salvation army

    Last edited by sandy666; 04-04-2018 at 06:45 AM.

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    you can't enforce someone to us excel if he's not willing to do it, some people want to stick with old norms and rules and afraid of change.

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    Sure you can, big stick with nail through it.... although this may be frowned upon in 1st world countries.

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    well if he enjoys keying in stuff manually and other areas of his work aren't affected, just let him be

    until crunch time and the report needs to get out fast then he'll feel the heat

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    Re: People who refuse to learn Excel

    the problem is it
    taking 2-4 x times longer to do a single task which others do can do is inevitably going to affect other areas of work
    especially prevelant if others are awaiting your task to be completed to move on to other parts
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