Our "asset management" is a Google Sheet and I'm not even embarrassed anymore

Posted by Particular_Ear_914@reddit | talesfromtechsupport | View on Reddit | 13 comments

Started as IT admin at a 200 person distributed company. Asked about our asset tracking system during onboarding.

"Oh yeah, it's in the shared drive. Really comprehensive spreadsheet."

This "comprehensive spreadsheet" has:

Found out we've been paying insurance on equipment that was returned 2 years ago. Also discovered we apparently own 15 monitors but nobody knows where they are.

CEO keeps asking for "better visibility into our IT assets" while I'm over here playing detective trying to figure out if Sarah in marketing actually has 2 laptops or if someone fat-fingered the spreadsheet.

Anyone else managing distributed IT with the technological sophistication of a lemonade stand?