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 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Jesus, this gave me war flashbacks.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Trarmp@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month 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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