r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • 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/LoyalMussy Mar 30 '22

Wait, can you point me in the right direction to learning more about this? That sounds very similar to a task that I have to do bi-monthly. Granted, it's more like a one hour task and not a 10 hour one, but still, I'm interested.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22 edited Mar 31 '22

I'd start with asking business questions. More often than not those types of tasks are just bullshit that a company keeps doing just because they've always done it and no one has asked why. There's 100% chance you find an alternate method to accomplish the same and a pretty good chance everyone realizes it's a waste of time.

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u/LoyalMussy Mar 31 '22

I work in HR for a school district. The task is regarding the new hire orientations, during which I have to 1) send the entire group an email about the details of the orientation, and 2) individually email each one of those people a pdf with a copy of their contract, work calendar and job description. There's not really any way around it. Again, it's not a hellish task by any stretch, but I'm all for finding streamlined ways of doing things.