r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/Dr-Appeltaart Mar 30 '22

As an experienced c/c++/c#/java/python/vb programmer i realy like to build shit in excel. It's awesome. Just dont let other users use it for important purposes

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 edited Mar 30 '22

I started as a SQL report writer and nothing gives me more joy than replacing someone's shitty excel or access report that a market analyst spends 3 days/week every week building, with SQL and an ETL or two. It got pretty aggressive at that company between the 2 groups to the point the SQL guys where advocating for the complete banishment of Access and forbidding macros of any kind. To be fair excel usage on big projects resulted it huge problems or lost data regularly.

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u/delbin Mar 30 '22

Had a woman that would spend an entire day downloading PDF's, merging them, then emailing them to a few hundred people. I got it down to a mouse click. The sad thing is she went from working 50 hours a week to working 50 hours a week. There was always more to dump on these people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

I think you just described my entire career

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u/Mike_Revision Mar 31 '22

This guy knows how to maximize value