I can’t believe that they are actually going through with this. Why doesn’t operations know about what processes and systems are in place that use Microsoft and they put those things in place for those users/departments? Why is IT going through this route? They are trying to have a boatload of people request license for Microsoft users? What’s going to happen once user have no access to do their job. Customers use excel and we would not be able to assist them with data we supply to them. I am so frustrated with this company and how dysfunctional they have become. So much for efficiency.
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@a2 we did. Now the ceo is crying. Terrible look.
@25d we were hacked and hey have not disclosed it with us
The whole purpose of this charade is constructive dismissal. They want to take your tools away so that you fail, and then they can let you go for performance or an unwillingness to adapt. You can try to sue them for illegal termination, but it’s obvious that they are starting to lawyer up with hiring an Employee Counsel attorney.
Meanwhile, you know the executives will keep their licenses, with a wink and a nod, because rules for thee not for me. No approval process required for them. How dare you waste an executive’s time to fill out a Google form! Convenience matters to them, they are so important!
Convenience for you? Nah, “REJECTED!!!” in the voice of Marv Albert.
The number of times EACH DAY I have to input my username name, password, and six-digit code sent by text is getting ridiculous. So much for productivity and efficiency. They love making our lives miserable. This is not about security. Why can’t this company get anything right for once? Whatever happened to that Jump Cloud app they made us download back in April? Never used it at all.
The roll-out of that new VPN was a masterclass disaster as well. 2-hour wait times on hold. Yeah, the dip-sh-t managers in IT really e-ffed that up. But don’t worry. Sammy will reward his managers and senior IT management with bonuses.
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Mikey L. has to waddle into Kobayashi’s office and inform him that he will not reach the targeted 90% conversion rate. Womp, womp. I guess Mikey won’t get that big performance bonus. Oh well, he should have done his due diligence and homework before making unrealistic promises and mandates. Will he learn from this or double down and continue to be Kobayashi’s sock puppet? I’m betting on the latter. I can’t wait for all of this Google AI stuff to crumble in 2027. What’s with all these additional security measures put out by IT? I thought Google was the most secure, according to little Mikey.
@OP all you have to do is receive your customers Excel file
save it
save it again as a Google sheet
do all your work in Google
save it as a sheet in your drive
Then export it as an Excel
Then double check to make sure that everything went through and didn’t have any errors or corruptions
Then send it back once you’ve confirmed you didn’t accidentally send a sheet file that nobody else can open
Pray your customer doesn’t fire you
And you’re done!
Easy Peezy
When King Sammy says this is how Google will cut our workload in half. This is what he means.
@a2 yeah your job got harder so make a bunch of other peoples job harder!!!
Great plan and the best part is it won’t even affect the id--ts who made this decision just the grunts at their mercy who also still have to do their own job on top of this new added task.
Are you sure you’re not one of the dip sh--s who make decisions for this company with your petty nonsense and cycle of bullsh-t off loading work?
This mentality of hurting your coworkers in other depts never works to affect those at the top it just fuels resentment with people suffering alongside you. Mid management bozos will just make everyone stay later until they hit the numbers on their Google Sheets. Be smarter with your rebellion
Who cares? Anything to the detriment of this shithole is a-ok with me!
Yeah ok, let everybody keep Power BI for now, but what if your report has data connections to Excel workbooks? You can’t connect to a Google Sheet. The premise of Microsoft Power BI is to leverage the MICROSOFT ecosystem, including Power Query. What good is Power Bi if you can’t use Excel in conjunction with it? There are legitimate reasons why you would use both Excel connections, for archived historical data that won’t change, and live Oracle connections for recent data. The people running this are complete inept stooges. I am beyond livid. I am exhausted from all the BS that gets thrown my way everyday. This is the final straw. Make our jobs impossible. Thanks so much, b0z0s!
Flood the portal with requests. Make IT cry for mercy. There must be pushback from everyone. If they take our tools away, we quit, it’s that simple. It’s not our job to JUSTIFY why we need these tools. Do you have to justify your need to breathe and eat as well? Pathetic.