Comment by gspr
5 years ago
> Not sure what you mean by plotting library but I cannot install any software so all I could use was Excel
I believe you, but isn't it baffling that your superiors couldn't recognize that giving you access to some Python or whatever would vastly improve your productivity, what you produce, and your happiness, all for a grant total of €0 and some de-rigidifying of arbitrary rules?
Generally these rules are institutional policy which are there for legal or security reasons. In a 1000-person organization, preventing 990 of them from installing malware is more important than allowing 10 of them to be more productive. A middle-manager does not have the ability to change that policy.