{"id":52,"date":"2008-09-20T20:35:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T00:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:35:56","slug":"excel-twitters-20080920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/20\/excel-twitters-20080920\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20080920"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As summer comes to an end (well in the Northern Hemisphere), people are huddled over their spreadsheets, assessing their careers, and cooking up plans of world domination, one co-worker at a time. This week&#8217;s Twitters show that thoughts have also turned to food and drink, with spreadsheet on the side. A long winter is ahead &#8212; we have to stay warm any way we can!<\/p>\n<h3>An Illustrious Career<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I am having so much fun generating Excel spreadsheets full of data that no one will ever look at&#8230;State government at its best!<\/li>\n<li>When kids dream of becoming game designers, I bet they don&#8217;t dream of sitting around arguing and enthusing about particular Excel functions.<\/li>\n<li>Went on a job interview &#8211; total bomb. Guess I don&#8217;t know Excel as well as I thought.<\/li>\n<li>google analytics guy just called out my old analyst job verbatim. analyst=&#8221;monkey sorting data in excel 90%, bathroom 10%&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Looking back at old jokes I wrote for standup- I have about 150 single space pages and a multidimensional excel analysis of the bits \ud83d\ude0e<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Stop It!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In Excel &#8220;Insert Copied Cells&#8221; and &#8220;Paste&#8221; are not the same, one will cover over the stuff you don&#8217;t want to lose. Don&#8217;t mix them up. ARGH!!<\/li>\n<li>Stupid thing about working out of excel spreadsheets. The one dumbass that comes along and sorts only one or two columns = FAIL..<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no need to have an excel grid with 6 tabs, 100 rows of information in each tab with 4 different color codes. Stop it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Wining and Dining<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>is happy to help out with all Excel issues &#8211; and he cooks too!<\/li>\n<li>Is there anyway to make Excel&#8217;s graphs look nicer? I&#8217;m now looking at a graph of Russia&#8217;s GDP and it&#8217;s like mashed blood pudding.<\/li>\n<li>Honey Bunches of oats, Hot Chip, and Excel seems to be the winning combo<\/li>\n<li>I think I need to take Excel out drinking and hope we don&#8217;t respect each other in the morning.<\/li>\n<li>Rocking out to Al Green. Somehow my excel budget worksheet is so much sexier now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Excel&#8217;s Evil Side<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I got my co-worker addicted to Excel. The OCD shall inherit the earth.<\/li>\n<li>my pivot table pickup line usually works wonders<\/li>\n<li>Board here&#8230;staff on best behavior&#8230;meaning not so much Twitter today because it doesn&#8217;t look like work. Need Twitter disguised as Excel.<\/li>\n<li>One step closer to creating an Excel function so convoluted that no one will ever truly understand what it is doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer comes to an end (well in the Northern Hemisphere), people are huddled over their spreadsheets, assessing their careers, and cooking up plans of world domination, one co-worker at a time. This week&#8217;s Twitters show that thoughts have also turned to food and drink, with spreadsheet on the side. A long winter is ahead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/20\/excel-twitters-20080920\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20080920&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}