Lying on your resume
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my level of excel for my job is pretty advanced, but in my old job my boss is/was an accountant and man some of the magic he could do with excel!!
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Excel can eat all the dicks. It’s user unfriendliness and my technological dumbcuntness are a disastrous combo. Luckily I have young folk in the company to do it for me. I share my screen with them and get them to sort it in exchange for coffees from a cafe in town that I get free anyway.
I’m such a Scotsman.
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@taniwharugby said in Lying on your resume:
my level of excel for my job is pretty advanced, but in my old job my boss is/was an accountant and man some of the magic he could do with excel!!
spot on, but by god it's uncheckable, and god forbid fixing it if anything breaks. Excel has a low barrier to entry, which is both a massive strength and weakness.
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I outright lied once to get an interview. Was maybe late 20s and desperate to get out of the customer service jobs rut I was in. Embellished to get an interview for an IT job (with the agent).
Turns out I'm a terrible liar and blagger.
Was excruitating. Far too nice after I got found out, and turned it to an interview for what I actually was qualified for. I just wanted to get out of there.
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@Bones said in Lying on your resume:
@Nepia said in Lying on your resume:
I have a formula book
Oh yeah because INTERNET!
Love the idea of you sitting at work and having to do some excel bits - "ohhhh nooooo....I left my formula book at hommme"
Well it's a PDF where I know the pages of the stuff I need.
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@Nepia said in Lying on your resume:
@Bones said in Lying on your resume:
@Nepia said in Lying on your resume:
I have a formula book
Oh yeah because INTERNET!
Love the idea of you sitting at work and having to do some excel bits - "ohhhh nooooo....I left my formula book at hommme"
Well it's a PDF where I know the pages of the stuff I need.
Good god man
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@Nepia said in Lying on your resume:
@Bones said in Lying on your resume:
@Nepia said in Lying on your resume:
I have a formula book
Oh yeah because INTERNET!
Love the idea of you sitting at work and having to do some excel bits - "ohhhh nooooo....I left my formula book at hommme"
Well it's a PDF where I know the pages of the stuff I need.
Hopefully the staples don't scratch your discman when it's in your bag.
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@Bones said in Lying on your resume:
@Nepia said in Lying on your resume:
@Bones said in Lying on your resume:
@Nepia said in Lying on your resume:
I have a formula book
Oh yeah because INTERNET!
Love the idea of you sitting at work and having to do some excel bits - "ohhhh nooooo....I left my formula book at hommme"
Well it's a PDF where I know the pages of the stuff I need.
Hopefully the staples don't scratch your discman when it's in your bag.
Discman? Is that some fancy new technology that's like my Walkman?
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@antipodean said in Lying on your resume:
How to crater a career by antipodean: Large town hall with senior management crapping on about their leadership retreat oblivious to the fact no one cared - I point out they aren't leader's arseholes, company performance is on a clear negative trend in a range of areas and they only call themselves leaders because they can't manage. Because managing is difficult.
Well I've never gotten quite that close to diving on my own grenade. Well played.
I've got a good manager who is also a leader. But the 2 guys above him in the chain make my fucking teeth ache in terms of micromanagement.
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@nzzp said in Lying on your resume:
Excel has a low barrier to entry, which is both a massive strength and weakness.
Lot of companies that friends or I work for run all their shit on spreadsheets. Cheap to set up, maintenance costs are practically invisible when it is part of someone's day job.
Problem is when they want to do anything big with it. Massive ball ache.
Once I discovered Google Sheets supported live links to BigQuery and also QUERY() life became a lot better.
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@antipodean said in Lying on your resume:
Filthy look, contract not renewed. Just over a year later; "welcome back, where you been?"
I used to call that “he’s on Lazarus leave”
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@nzzp said in Lying on your resume:
@taniwharugby said in Lying on your resume:
my level of excel for my job is pretty advanced, but in my old job my boss is/was an accountant and man some of the magic he could do with excel!!
spot on, but by god it's uncheckable, and god forbid fixing it if anything breaks. Excel has a low barrier to entry, which is both a massive strength and weakness.
Of course nobody ever documents what they’ve built.
And independent testing for even mission-critical applications? Gimmeabreak. You’d never accept a professional developer saying they’ve just built something, trust me it’s fine, I tested it myself. But a 20 year old office jockey has put together a spreadsheet that may determine the future of your business? Sure, seems legit, put that baby live.
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@JC said in Lying on your resume:
@nzzp said in Lying on your resume:
@taniwharugby said in Lying on your resume:
my level of excel for my job is pretty advanced, but in my old job my boss is/was an accountant and man some of the magic he could do with excel!!
spot on, but by god it's uncheckable, and god forbid fixing it if anything breaks. Excel has a low barrier to entry, which is both a massive strength and weakness.
Of course nobody ever documents what they’ve built.
And independent testing for even mission-critical applications? Gimmeabreak. You’d never accept a professional developer saying they’ve just built something, trust me it’s fine, I tested it myself. But a 20 year old office jockey has put together a spreadsheet that may determine the future of your business? Sure, seems legit, put that baby live.
You'd be mad to not check any projections based on an excel model. In the world of infra, these models get poured over by hundreds of eyes and sophisticated applications to find any errors. Of course the liability caps from the model auditors mean the recourse isn't worth a dime, but we
typically find any mismatch to the real world comes from incorrect assumptions rather than faulty modelling -
@voodoo I wouldnt hire you bro!
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@voodoo more cos I know how much time you spend here, you sounded clever as in that post though...
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@taniwharugby its either hang out here or homeschool my kids...
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I'm heaps good at making spreadsheets that look pretty, and are easy to follow.
that's pretty much it
