It depends on how long you use it:
Year 1: Ok, this is kinda cool, but why does it keep fucking breaking?
Year 2: How is it still fucking breaking?
Year 3: I just don’t fucking care why it keeps breaking. I think I hate this program.
Year 4: I hate this program
Year 5: Let the hate flow through you, consume you. Feel the dark side flowing through your fingertips. Yes. Good. Why is it breaking? It’s the end users. Yes… they’ve been plotting against you from the beginning - hiding columns, erasing formulas and even…
merging cells
Que heavy breathing through a respirator.
Year 6: It’s a board meeting. They ask you if you can average all the moving averages of average sales per month and provide an exponential trendline to forecast growth on five million rows of data.
You say “sure, boss, I can knock that for you in Excel in about an hour or two.”
Your team leader interjects “I believe what he was trying to say was we’ll use Tableau and it will take about a month.”
You turn to him with a steely glare.
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
Year 7: Your team leader is gone after you pointed out he fucked up one of your sheets that run the business by merging a cell. All data flows through you and the holy spreadsheet, and the board is terrified of firing you because no one knows how your sheets work but you and their entire inventory system would collapse if you leave.
But then the inevitable happens. Dissension in the ranks. The juniors talk of python, R, Tableau, Power BI - anything to release your dark hold upon the holy data. You could crush them all with a xlookup chain faster than they can type a SELECT statement. The Rebellion is coming, but you’re ready. You’ve discovered the Data Model, capable of building a relational database behind the hidden moons of Power Pivot, parsing tens of millions of rows - and your Death Star is almost complete.
You’re ready to unleash your dark fury when the fucking spreadsheet breaks again.
Year 8: New company. They ask if you know Excel. You just start cackling with a addictive gleam in your eye as tears start streaming down your face.
They hire you on the spot.
All they use is Excel. And Access.
You think, ok, this is kinda cool, but why does it keep fucking breaking?
We need a /c/MuseumOfLemmy to preserve this treasure in so that it may be cherished and studied by our children and our children’s children and many generations beyond.
This is art
Why isn’t that “Merge Cells” button hidden behind 3 levels of menus up to this day?
Year 7: Your team leader is gone after you pointed out he fucked up one of your sheets that run the business by merging a cell.
I am laughing about how after 7 years nobody has locked the sheets that run the business to avoid this specific thing.
Or maybe they were kocked and the team leader unlocked it so they could break it without saving a backup.
🏅
Damn you just described my role but everything happened within a span of 3 years
Just started a new job two weeks ago, all they use is Excel and Access. Now you’ve got me scared, first job out of uni and feels like a lot of pressure.
Welcome to the dark side, young padawan…
I guess I’m just about at the end. How the fuck do I use access?
I’ve done things in excel that are an abomination in the eyes of the divine.
I have absolutely 0 regret.
You have January 1, 1970 regret?
Or false regret, either or.
i once used an excel sheet to emulated a von Newman architecture ALU+RAM
fun and useless, but very (un)efficient way to calculate Fibonacci numbers
What if I like it? Is there something wrong with me?
You are probably using it for its intended purpose, which it Excels at.
I think it’s one of my all time favorites. I think people here live in the tech literate bubble who know how to use specialized software for the different things excel does, albeit clunkily. But average people are intimidated by those more advanced tools, and there are a lot of average people in decision making positions who benefit greatly from being able to use excel.
You will understand in time, young padawan…
The Libre Office Suite is better, and Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
I did a GCSE course on Excel, I learned to get irrationally angry every time a class was scheduled
I have been using Grist a lot and it has been working quite well. I don’t like Python that much, but it’s a lot better than the functions in Excell.
What, I use Excel daily and love it 😄
As a genome biologist, fuck you.
My life right here. "Ok it looks like it is an issue with the sheet itself, do you know who owns it? Alright reach out to them.:
I’d agree with that.
Too right!
