Colleague to intern: "Hey, so this Excel file of 10,000 rows — can you just go through it now and clean the [exceptionally poorly entered] data up? Oh, and I need this by the end of today, so you have 2 hours."
All the regex in the world couldn't save her…
I don't like working with this guy. When I was under him as an intern a few years back, I helped him clean up his address book…fortunately I found a way to half-automate a great deal of it (instead of going through it line by line as she's doing now).