Why is "Standard CSV" never actually standard? 🙃

I’ve spent the last few weeks staring at vendor files, and I’m convinced that "CSV" stands for Constantly Slightly Variable.

I was trying to ingest a few product catalogs recently. One supplier sends prices as 12.99 USD, the next uses $12,99, and the third just puts 1299 and expects you to guess the decimals. I ended up spending more time writing "one-off" cleanup scripts than actually using the data.

It feels like every time we scale and add a new partner, we’re just adding another 5 hours of manual Excel work to someone's week.

I’m curious—how are you all handling this? * Do you have a dedicated "data janitor" on the team?

• Are you maintaining a graveyard of fragile Python scripts?

• Or have you just accepted that manual cleanup is a permanent part of your life?

I’m launching a solution for this tomorrow because I’m tired of doing it manually, but I’d love to hear some "data horror stories" in the meantime. What’s the messiest file a partner has ever dropped on your desk?