bobbykdy Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 2 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Well...got some news today about a colleague. Prof? No heard about any of his shenanigans recently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 What's the opposite of ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 6 minutes ago, scottsdad said: What's the opposite of ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 8 hours ago, Jives Miguel said: vLookups Bane of my life as I’ll forget every time, EVERY FUCKING TIME, that the lookup data needs to be in alphabetical order. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSU Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 7 minutes ago, mathematics said: Bane of my life as I’ll forget every time, EVERY FUCKING TIME, that the lookup data needs to be in alphabetical order. Cheeky wee OFFSET & MATCH gets you round that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 (edited) If any of you had stuck in at school you'd order someone else to make things work. Edited June 11 by Sergeant Wilson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbykdy Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 33 minutes ago, scottsdad said: What's the opposite of ? Come on then, dinnae keep us in suspenders... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 Not the biggest news ever, but David (aka The Prof) has started his phased retirement. From February he will be working just 3 days a week. Then, a year later, 2 days...then 1...then no longer a P& B favourite Basically he is pissed off. When he came to us the management promised him loads of stuff, not least that he would be leading a team that, he later found, doesn't exist. He was saddled with terrible students, in huge numbers. He lives in Manchester but bought a flat here to stay in a couple of nights a week. The commute is getting to him, and he could sell the flat and make a few bob. Just had enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 10 hours ago, BFTD said: "Hi" is the kind of message you get on WhatsApp from scammers to see if your number's active. I'm perplexed as to why somebody would do this on a work instant messaging service, so I'd be ignoring it too. If they complain that you never responded, you can say that you thought they must be a Ukrainian model looking for someone to marry, if only they could find someone willing to buy them a plane ticket, and you didn't think your wife would approve. I send "hi" because on normal email programs the return key starts a new line and doesn't just send the first one. I will generally send the rest of the message though, but it might be a minute or two. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 56 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Not the biggest news ever, but David (aka The Prof) has started his phased retirement. From February he will be working just 3 days a week. Then, a year later, 2 days...then 1...then no longer a P& B favourite Basically he is pissed off. When he came to us the management promised him loads of stuff, not least that he would be leading a team that, he later found, doesn't exist. He was saddled with terrible students, in huge numbers. He lives in Manchester but bought a flat here to stay in a couple of nights a week. The commute is getting to him, and he could sell the flat and make a few bob. Just had enough. Working 3 days a week- so he's upped his contribution then? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilScotsman Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 3 hours ago, SomersetBairn said: This is about my level of Excel usage. Though I did think outside the box, used my basic Excel knowledge to complete an XML table, with thousands of entries, in around two hours. It had been estimated that the work would take at least a week, so when I did it that quick, they thought I was the mutts nuts. Been make a living off that 'wizardry' for the last four years. Never, ever, let on how long this kind of thing takes; the key is to get the work done, but as you're debugging save a copy before fixing each bug. That way you can release them over a week or two, buying plenty of skiving time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 1 hour ago, coprolite said: I send "hi" because on normal email programs the return key starts a new line and doesn't just send the first one. I will generally send the rest of the message though, but it might be a minute or two. That moment of terror when you can't remember if <ENTER> adds a carriage return or sends the message on the platform you're using 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 3 hours ago, scottsdad said: Not the biggest news ever, but David (aka The Prof) has started his phased retirement. From February he will be working just 3 days a week. Then, a year later, 2 days...then 1...then no longer a P& B favourite Basically he is pissed off. When he came to us the management promised him loads of stuff, not least that he would be leading a team that, he later found, doesn't exist. He was saddled with terrible students, in huge numbers. He lives in Manchester but bought a flat here to stay in a couple of nights a week. The commute is getting to him, and he could sell the flat and make a few bob. Just had enough. How much do you think you'll get for your flat? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH Panda Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 I really don't know that much about excel but pretty much anything on it can be figured out quickly using chatgpt or YouTube tutorials. I think peoples adversion to it is the same mindset where lots of people can't do maths (they probably can it's just a confidence thing). Still works for me, one of my colleagues has brass necked a whole job out of being an excel CI expert, turns up late and leaves early each day. I'm impressed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 1 hour ago, SH Panda said: I really don't know that much about excel but.. @Buzz Killington Hi! SH Panda has a question about Excel for you... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 6 hours ago, scottsdad said: What's the opposite of ? ? Heard the final disposition on a bloke I worked with who got into a wee bit of difficultly about the time I retired. Seemed he was working the overnight shift, and got the last break...hopped into his automobile and hot-footed it over to a hotel where he was supposedly meeting a 14-year old... So working as job where a conviction for such erases all benefits...doing it while on the clock...getting caught by the FBI, who had helped process his security clearance three months before (make me wonder if something didn't stick out, so to speak, on that)...then I stupid enough to expect to be able to report to work three days later after getting out on bond. His picture was posted with a "DO NOT ALLOW ENTRY" at the guard shack, but they decided to put him on administrative leave rather than canning him until he was convicted 14 months later. His appeals have been exhausted, as has his "luck". Based upon reports, he won't be doing easy time, thankfully. I do however feel very sorry for his wife and young kid, who had no knowledge. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 (edited) 10 hours ago, coprolite said: I send "hi" because on normal email programs the return key starts a new line and doesn't just send the first one. I will generally send the rest of the message though, but it might be a minute or two. Not sure how many messaging platforms it works on but Slack lets you start a new line but pressing Ctrl+Enter. Not sure if Teams or other equivalents do the same Edited June 12 by Central Belt Caley 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 11 hours ago, mathematics said: Bane of my life as I’ll forget every time, EVERY FUCKING TIME, that the lookup data needs to be in alphabetical order. Try an XLOOKUP? I got shown a sheet with several hundred entries needing processed regularly and was shown how to do it (literally one by one, for every entry, and check every 20 or so entries that the numbers were adding up) which would be a tedious, lingering death of a way to do it. Played about with the sheet and discovered the XLOOKUP function; tends to be theres a handful of entries that cant be found and need a little bit of digging & one or two other minor issues I just manually update, but just using that does about 90% of the work. Cut down a 4/5 hour job to about half that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 12 hours ago, coprolite said: I send "hi" because on normal email programs the return key starts a new line and doesn't just send the first one. I will generally send the rest of the message though, but it might be a minute or two. shift + enter solves that problem, no? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 14 hours ago, scottsdad said: Not the biggest news ever, but David (aka The Prof) has started his phased retirement. From February he will be working just 3 days a week. Then, a year later, 2 days...then 1...then no longer a P& B favourite Basically he is pissed off. When he came to us the management promised him loads of stuff, not least that he would be leading a team that, he later found, doesn't exist. He was saddled with terrible students, in huge numbers. He lives in Manchester but bought a flat here to stay in a couple of nights a week. The commute is getting to him, and he could sell the flat and make a few bob. Just had enough. That must be the most feeble protest ever. If he was that pissed off, tell them where to stick their fucking job and stamp out. Don't even slam the doors, leave them all open. That's what I did, and within 20 years that office was shut! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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