SharePoint: Abandon all hope all ye who enter here.

The Corporate Rabbit Hole.

SharePoint: The Corporate Rabbit Hole

Once upon a time, there was something called File & Print Services. A simple Microsoft Windows server shared files across the office. You had your trusty local drives: H: for home, G: for reports, I: for marketing. Life was good. The world sort of worked.

Then Microsoft introduced SharePoint, a web front end that turned your neat file system into an elephant’s graveyard of documents. SharePoint exists so you can say, “I delivered that document,” knowing full well no one will ever find it. If it’s something people actually need, expect the eternal question: “Where did you put that document again?” Because nobody uses the search function.

The beauty of SharePoint? You can organize projects into sites, then link those sites into a maze so complex it makes a rabbit hole look like a straight line. The dream of self-service quickly becam…