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So my manager (a 29 y/o, who hardly can use a mac) walks towards me with a hint of panic in his eyes.

Manager: Hey commander keen, do you know how to use vertical look up in excel, I've tried, and looked at tutorials.

Me: yeah I really don't know excel (and not willing to learn, especially on the fly), I don't even have excel installed, I can write I script that does what you want.

Manager: No you have enough on your plate

3 hours later

Manager: hey I still can't figure it out, could you solve it with a script, won't that take to long

Me: no send me the files, Ill do it with a script.

I start writing 2 for loops and wait for the file, 10 ish minutes later its basicly done, just need to put in the column indexes.

I send a message on both slack channels (hey are you going to email or slack me the file)

After a hour I walk to his desk and again ask him for the file.

Manager a good 2 hours later on slack: Hey I just send you the file, I hope its not to much work, it has to happen asap.

So if you have kids, and they are not that bright by some kind of birth defect, don't worry, they can always become a manager.

But you can't get me down today. I hit 2000 upvotes and the employer is unknowingly a proud sponsor for reading and writing all these rants and comments :-) thnx devrant

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  • 3
    Congrats
  • 3
    @MisterArie ah mr 4040 :) we should drink to celebrate soon (I used to work for misterArie)
  • 3
    @commanderkeen sounds like a great plan!
  • 1
    @1989 been working like crazy, its work, sleep, work out, work for months. But looks like there is calmer water ahead :D
  • 1
    And he just called me to ask to refix it, and now I look at the file (csv w/ stockdata) and it makes no sense at all compared to how it should look. So he's been at it for hours but I'm not sure he really managed to accomplish something. I think he just randomly converted the format to money (and that is one reason importing the file would not work) and scrolled around.
  • 9
    If you can't do, you teach.
    If you can't teach, you manage.
  • 1
    @Root maybe I can be a manager when I turn out to be a bad dev 😁

    Yesterday I got an offer for a "Test Analyser" job in web development btw. I was thinking maybe it wouldn't be bad to start as a tester. Would be a 1 year assignment. The interview is due for Monday.
  • 3
    Well, I have been working with pretty cool managers, but I have been working with some shitballs too, I think managers should have technical background, though.
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