Using PowerPoint as a lab notebook...
This is a process which was enshrined before I started, but c'mon! Sluggish in the web app, inefficient file storage on an already bloated SharePoint, no cross-referencing, poor searching capabilities.
I'm not being "picky" (not my words) by railing against this; there are numerous other tools which could serve much better for this. An equal mix of Luddism and sunk-cost fallacy is keeping this in place and it's quite frankly frustrating. Especially when a proper ELN isn't happening due to cost.
Anyone else have any silly processes which are dug in like ticks from a period when people had to make do?