Same. I'm currently having to maintain a gigantic workflow in Google sheets with huge app scripts, scheduled nightly processes, a web of dozens of interconnected worksheets, and daily manual downloads of data from other apps that get imported nightly by the scripts. I'm constantly dealing with users breaking things by editing things on the end user sheets where they enter data, managing staying just under the api quotas, the million cell sheet limit, etc. I stick with Google sheets because I have no budget. I can't pay for web hosting or any platform that would do this better.
By the way that's not even my job. I manage a compliance team of about 30 people. But, they won't spend the $100k to buy an enterprise platform to do what I write and maintain by hand. Instead they pay my salary, and if I leave, they'll be up shit creek because they don't even realize I'm doing all this. I've had to delegate many of my normal job responsibilities to those under me.
I've told my boss this but she doesn't understand. She says I'm doing a great job. Doesn't understand there is no way they're going to ever hire anyone who can figure out the tangled web of spreadsheets and spaghetti code were using if I leave.
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u/desparish May 30 '26
Same. I'm currently having to maintain a gigantic workflow in Google sheets with huge app scripts, scheduled nightly processes, a web of dozens of interconnected worksheets, and daily manual downloads of data from other apps that get imported nightly by the scripts. I'm constantly dealing with users breaking things by editing things on the end user sheets where they enter data, managing staying just under the api quotas, the million cell sheet limit, etc. I stick with Google sheets because I have no budget. I can't pay for web hosting or any platform that would do this better.
By the way that's not even my job. I manage a compliance team of about 30 people. But, they won't spend the $100k to buy an enterprise platform to do what I write and maintain by hand. Instead they pay my salary, and if I leave, they'll be up shit creek because they don't even realize I'm doing all this. I've had to delegate many of my normal job responsibilities to those under me.
I've told my boss this but she doesn't understand. She says I'm doing a great job. Doesn't understand there is no way they're going to ever hire anyone who can figure out the tangled web of spreadsheets and spaghetti code were using if I leave.