Hi, friends!
I was going to try to have something fun tonight for the post, but then I spent over 5 hours today building a spreadsheet for a big work thing and the people who wrote the requirements for this thing… I don’t know where their brain cells are at (or even if they have them).
Anyways, my brain is toast tonight. Open thread, please chat away about whatever tickles your fancy.
Strangely, I’ve had nights like that where I ended up dreaming in Excel.
I’ve done that a few times dealing with sales apps. When I dream in Excel VBA/macros I’ve found a solution to things that bothered me during the day, but it is kind of depressing literally taking your work home with you.
Found out today that none of the new analysts knew you could convert a PDF into an Excel.
For years I worked out our taxes in Excel, but a few years ago I gave up and went with Turbotax. I miss working out the details but things just got too complicated to read every instruction from the IRS.
“That was identified early on as a likely outcome.”
This professional way to say “I told you so” was sent to me today by a friend. Sooooo many use cases. . . .
@Brightersideoflife I suspect that you can use this line
“This would be a good time to refer back to the risk factors identified in the original scope document and note the ones which have also not been addressed….”
MORE IS COMING IF YOU DON’T DEAL WITH IT!
Three times today I told another team “No, we will not be providing additional details” on our part of a project.
They were really flummoxed by it. After the first time, I told my teams that if anyone comes to any of them about these details to refer them to me.
I ain’t fucking around.
I was getting a sandwich on Sunday, and while I was waiting for it,
the radiowhatever satellite music provider the deli had played “American Girl” by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, then “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC, then “American Woman” by the Guess Who.It seemed to me at the time that the progression might’ve flowed a bit more smoothly without the middle song — unless they were trying to make the point that there was something woman-making (and, most likely, innocence-robbing) in a US-based Thunderstrike.
I spent most of my day dealing w/ my two old fridges in preparation for my new one. It became much more work than I imagined but my new one is great & I only slightly hurt my back moving one of the old ones. At least the day ended w/ beers w/ friends & if I could say that every day, I would be happy.
I assume you’re taking the doors off and turning them into boats.
No, more like musical fridge. New one inside, old one replaces beer fridge in garage, old beer fridge got taken by delivery guys. I would like to hear more about your idea before I’d this again because i would like a stainless steel boat. I may need to hit up some of my Boeing friends to make that happen but if you have plans or sketches that may speed up the process! I promise to take you crabbing for the help.
My first question is just how cold the water is up there this time of year….
Yeah, pretty damn cold. Bring your dry suit if you don’t trust your boat design or…remember that Titanic scene?
Why take the door off a perfectly good mini-sub?
management is trying to see how far they can push staff again before everyone walks out or goes on long term sick leave
courtesy of the new software not working properly we are getting increasingly backlogged…so obviously instead of doing something about the software asap (they’ll start troubleshooting in january) the fix for now is pushing for overtime 7 am till 8:30 pm days till christmas…with bonus weekend work…and they are considering opening up shop between xmas and newyears eve….
course…they can only make 8 hours of overtime a month mandatory…soo they are kind of hitting a snag where pretty much everyone is telling them to get fucked…
sides from that my new co worker who took us from we are fucked to we are merely understaffed horribly lasted 4 days before getting his girlfriend to call him in sick…
im thinking that even if we see him again….hes probably not going to be someone we can count on
so yeah…pretty standard end of year far as work goes