i love how this could either be about driving or using excel
At work, I’m known for being one of the two people outside the top bosses most adept with the various computer programs we use, including Excel. My coworkers ask me for help and I teach them, but I also make sure to stress that much of what I’m doing is problem-solving on the fly. They understand this isn’t just me soothing their egos because I talk to the programs. A lot.
“Come on Ex-Hell, do the damn thing. You did it yesterday.”
“I swear to God I will throw you out the window.”
“HOW DID I BREAK THE FORMULA WTF”
“If it was physically possible, I would pull this program out of the CPU and slap it before shoving it back in.”
“What part of align center do you not fucking understand.”
“DO IT IN ALL THE CELLS, NOT JUST THIS ONE!”
“I told you to paste unformatted text you bastard now look what you’ve done– you ruined it.”
I also tell the others that you often have to beat a program into submission by applying things you know about other programs and that sometimes you just have to trick the things into doing what you want in a roundabout way.
“Cor, you’re so good with computers!”
“No. I’m stubborn as hell and have access to Google.”
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