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{{g}}To [[work around]] is to get one’s job done notwithstanding the best efforts of the firm’s [[IT department]], which will have marshalled its several-hundred-million dollar budget around the quest to ensure that you cannot, in fact, get your job done.
{{g}}To [[work-around]] is to get one’s job done notwithstanding the best efforts of the firm’s [[IT department]], which will have marshalled its several-hundred-million dollar budget around the quest to ensure that, whatever else happens, you in fact cannot.
 
A large part of that budget is ear-marked for pursuing the cat-and-mouse game of tracking down and punishing employees who have created [[Microsoft Excel|Excel]] macros to [[end-user application|make their lives easier]] in spite of the firm’s basic philosophical enmity towards (a) humans and (b) properly functional technology.
 
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To work-around is to get one’s job done notwithstanding the best efforts of the firm’s IT department, which will have marshalled its several-hundred-million dollar budget around the quest to ensure that, whatever else happens, you in fact cannot.

A large part of that budget is ear-marked for pursuing the cat-and-mouse game of tracking down and punishing employees who have created Excel macros to make their lives easier in spite of the firm’s basic philosophical enmity towards (a) humans and (b) properly functional technology.

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