What's the worst thing you've seen Excel used for?
What's the worst thing you've seen Excel used for?
(bonus points if it's being used for official business purposes)
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A Google Sheet used as a password manager that every employee had access to. To keep it “secure” the cells with the passwords were hidden by changing the background color to match the text color.
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Holy crap
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Lmao. I once had a senior dev put database passwords into documentation, and then was about to email those out to interview candidates with the passwords 'blacked' out. I caught it quick enough before it could be sent thankfully.
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Yeouch. How long ago was this? It feels like the standards for even junior devs have gone way up.
...but I guess even the C-students must find jobs eventually...?
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2024 lol. Maybe senior dev is an overstatement, he was just more senior than me. He also left a database where the main table had one varchar, freetext column that users wrote multiple fields into because it was a 'simpler user experience' . Was a pain to extract all those fields with regex...
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Oh dear...
I don't even understand how that would get past even the first couple of people using it. I imagine the idea was that they'd copy/paste the value into the password field. But did nobody ever paste the password into somewhere other than a password field and realize, "Hey, I can see this password!"...even accidentally?
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