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queenoftheskiesI just wasted the majority of a day.
The Production Manager wanted set of reports that contained certain information, so I accumulated all the data and put together a really nice set of linking Excel spreadsheets, laid out exactly the way he said he wanted it.
Just took him a copy of one of them to approve.
What did he say?
"Uh...that's not the way we always did it." (He's from another division of the company that bought us.)
So, I asked, "How did you always do it?" (I was thinking, "Why the hell didn't you tell me how you used to do it ahead of time?)
So, he pulls out a form that's scribbled on and said, "It's easier to read if you just handwrite it than an Excel spreadsheet is." (No, he's not extremely computer literate.)
So, tomorrow, I have to redo all that work by hand.
Why couldn't he have told me this ahead of time?
Sigh...
The Production Manager wanted set of reports that contained certain information, so I accumulated all the data and put together a really nice set of linking Excel spreadsheets, laid out exactly the way he said he wanted it.
Just took him a copy of one of them to approve.
What did he say?
"Uh...that's not the way we always did it." (He's from another division of the company that bought us.)
So, I asked, "How did you always do it?" (I was thinking, "Why the hell didn't you tell me how you used to do it ahead of time?)
So, he pulls out a form that's scribbled on and said, "It's easier to read if you just handwrite it than an Excel spreadsheet is." (No, he's not extremely computer literate.)
So, tomorrow, I have to redo all that work by hand.
Why couldn't he have told me this ahead of time?
Sigh...
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