Fucking excel. Lemmy lemme tell you. At a former position my boss wanted me to make an economic model in excel. I begged to do it in R but no dice. Annoyingly VBA was the skill all other employers were interested in (in my brief foray into industry). I had a million sads.
VBA is horrid and incredibly outdated. I’ve written c# code that ran identical calculations on data being run through excel at literally over a million times the speed.
Don’t get me.wrong I really love excel and enjoy spending my days playing with it; but sometimes I’ll look at my work in a big picture context and don’t understand how I make so much money doing a totally made up thing that serves no practical purpose.
Humans have a complexity fetish I’ll never understand. Nothing is ever as complex as it seems (in the way it seems, anyway).
If you tried working at your company for a week with no paperwork or spreadsheets you’d realize their necessity pretty quick. You are a bureaucromancer. Very little gets done, and none of it on budget, without you playing with spreadsheets all day.
Soldiers might fight a war, but logistics wins one. It’s no different for business.
You’re so right. You should be mindlessly using an ERP!
Can be both!
I was just coming to say that! I get the “best” of both worlds, Excel sheets to track production while I sit in this shitty factory and breathe God only knows what!
Bonus: I can’t even afford a home after it all! Yay America!
Bonus: I can’t even afford a home after it all! Yay America!
Same goes for Canada! Yay, twinsies!
So you are housefree? Land of the free, indeed
I have the luxury of renting someone else’s garage, living in the upper portion of it and paying their entire mortgage for them…
Can be both!
Yep.
At some of the Excel jobs, the toxic fumes come from your manager’s mouth.Yeah, I live in a area of the country where (only since 2020) we can expect long stretches of days where the sky is orange and the AQI is 300+. Climate change has made sure the toxic fumes are for everyone!
Wtf seriously like just whenever? That’s fucked to think about. Fuck these greedy capitalists who are destroying our ability to live on this planet.
Forest fire season starts in late June/early July and ends sometime around now. It stops if you’re lucky anyway; some of the Canadian 2023 fires are still smouldering.
Ohh I should’ve realized you were talking about that. Man that is messed up.
There’s a third one, too, it’s a funny one: you stare at countless (mostly fake) job vacancies expecting to be hired so to “deserve to survive”, while bills can’t stop arriving. You resign from your 10-yr IT career and try to apply for a simpler, factory vacancy, just to hear from HRs that your CV is “too good to be applied for our simpler jobs”. In the meantime, you catch yourself selling your soul and autonomy (constantly forced to accept the circumstances) to these people that share the same blood lineage as yours (some call them “familiars”) because you can’t see another option, except for going homeless, where you’ll be constantly assaulted by cops and people saying “go get a job” to you because you got nothing. By the way, you also inhale toxic fumes from air pollution from cities. And you stare at a Word document, your own CV, thinking “what did I do wrong?”.
Is your experience IT exclusively, or do you also have (even rudimentary) programming experience? Industrial automation is a great option. I feel blessed, having started from below the bottom (not all people are fit to be parents!) working as a metal carpenter while still underage, to have managed to get into this field, through hard work and, most importantly, a good amount of luck.
apply to lower jobs without most of your resume.
“could you tell us about this 10 year gap in your resume?”
“Not really. I signed an NDA”
I was a stay-at-home dad while my wife was a high payed lawyer, or I had to care for my elderly mother while she was dying from ass cancer, or I was doing drugs but I’ve been clean for over a year now, or shut up that’s none of your business why are you even asking this shit for a job that requires no education or experience!?..
“To be honest, I don’t remember most of it, due to all the drugs.”
“You’re hired, welcome at Ford.”
yes i was fucking your mother
Doesn’t need to be a gap, just make it less than what you were really doing.
I used to do the inhale thing while I was a student. Gave me the motivation to pull through and be able to do the Excel thing now.
That makes you a well rounded person. Getting the full human experience. It’s not always fun, but it makes life more complete.
And in the precise moment I saw this, I realized both of my monitors were displaying Excel on full screen. Sigh.
This meme is verstörend.
I’d rather inhale toxic sheets at work or stare at excel fumes all day
My body releases some toxic sheets sometimes.
I know someone who excels at making Excel fumes.
Office Space 2 plot revealed
Just leave my stapler alone this time.
Dang… Went from being around running cars all day to spending my days looking at excels sheets…
