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I found the latest powerpoint in my emails instead of the sharepoint, can confirm, borderline criminal.


I assume this is sarcastic, so allow me to offer this point directly from recent experience.

I worked on a multi-million dollar transformation project for the federal government.

Nobody had any idea where anything was. Eventually they found the 'latest PowerPoint' in their email, instead of SharePoint.

Except it wasn't the latest. They just thought it was. So they updated it, and distributed it, and then looked stupid and had to do it again. And lost all respect and trust from the customer.

And then when the project failed the auditor came in to try to figure out why, and it was reasonably obvious.

Meanwhile the taxpayer is paying for this. That's me and you. If this mid-sized transformation project has a $10m budget and every person wastes just a minute every hour looking for a file -- conservative, in my experience -- then we're talking hundreds of thousands of wasted dollars.

So, yeah. Borderline criminal in my view.




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