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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Defiant-Lion8183 on 2024-05-06 12:16:46.
So I am a fiend for excel spreadsheets. Absolutely love them and even bought an extra extra wide monitor for home so I can see them in all their glory. My Boss keeps telling me that she's an "advanced excel user", she can run macros, she can do pivot tables, she knows formulas. Not once have I seen her create or manipulate a spreadsheet in the 6 months I've worked for her.
So I had a Template on our Teams chat that we used every week, it was automated to within an inch of its life to tell us about the companies health. We've been using it for the last 4 months after I was given approval by the boss to make it live, gave her a tutorial and everything. This was for the admins to all see it and I'd only need to update the raw data once a week instead of send it manually to who ever wanted it on a given day (Up to 4 times a day usually).
Took out about 6 hrs work a week having it set up like that. Well the boss told me to take it down because a different department who hadnt seen it, was worried about personal data when one of the admins told them about it. There isnt anything like that in there, and anything that isnt open access is password hidden anyway. Our IT team has to be formally requested to add a new member to our teams chat, the spreadsheet is password protected, the tabs are password protected and the whole company is locked down hard anyway.
So boss orders me to take it down and delete it "Run a fresh one for anyone who wants it".
So I explained there wasn't anything in it that was "personal or private data", but got told nope delete it.
Tried to explain we use it amongst the admins every day and it has all these built in features/tables etc.
Nope delete it.
So I did. The fall out? Read on
Cue today Boss says to me her big boss meeting is presenting figures to the executives tomorrow. She starts quoting figures that are wildly out from the true numbers, I questioned where they came from and she shows me a Frankenstein report that is saying the exact opposite of what she thought. Run by someone not even in our department... I tell her the accurate grand total and show her how I got there with a simple table and some screenshots I had of the original shared spreadsheet. She asks for access and I tell her its been deleted.
I explained why and even showed the meeting notes where she had approved its use after viewing it.
She denies any knowledge of it, but wants it back. I said It would take me 2-3 days to make it again due to my workload increases.
I saved a copy of the template, but no way am I telling her that. This will give me breathing room to get the backlog out of my queue while she thinks I'm working on it. Let her sweat through that Executive meeting knowing every figure is wrong, no ones saving her ass in this team anymore.