@matigo Constantly amazed. I've even gone back to certain suppliers asking for whatever they sent as "human readable text" as a CSV, and have actually been told that the raw data wasn't a table in the first place so they just did a (botched) c&p job for me.
I have never used regex quite as much as now. I even have the patterns for various suppliers saved so I can tabulate their crap with less suffering.
I don't get the wine industry's mentality when it comes to price lists. These should be formatted for processing, not reading…ugh.
Email at 9:32am: "Hey, can you go over this document RIGHT NOW because I need to submit the final version within the hour?"
Hm, not really.
@peemee I deal with plain text enough that this isn’t an issue. Thankfully.
// @matigo @JeremyCherfas @streakmachine
@matigo Oh I don't automate for anyone else. I automate only for myself, and I teach my interns the basic mindset behind automation and a few formulas if I have time.
The rest of the team thinks it's an achievement to know how to enter edit mode in Excel without double-clicking.
// @streakmachine
@streakmachine The number of times I've watched people do manually what an if statement could do is…staggering.
// @matigo
I am far happier with this intern than the 3 who were here before her.
Chiefly because I’ve taught her to appreciate the mindset that motivates automation and being a power user, even if she hasn’t actually written much more than a few very nice Excel formulas.
And because she now knows what a primary key is.
Shame she’s leaving in a month.
Rainy days mean more time indoors and more time spent making food…crazy spicy fried chicken with smoky cheese sauce and a ton of garlic. No wine pairing with this one…