The client wants to drag and drop their own personalized excel file with no guaranteed formatting or column order or data contract in order to import their data into our system <3

[–] Trarmp@feddit.nl 25 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Jesus, this gave me war flashbacks.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Please, do elaborate. Let others feast on your suffering.

[–] Trarmp@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago

I had a potential client, an accountant. They had their own, uh, system within a spreadsheet. They wanted me to program another system to be able to send their spreadsheet output into our governments IRS. Did a little back-and-forth but could not convince them to drop the idea.

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