i accidentally said “fuck” in a technical phone interview, and from that point on in the conversation my brain wasn’t working because i was too self-conscious. but, i guess my answers were okay enough.
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had to make a financial model on the fly without knowing (in retrospect) common excel functions and the model was very wrong
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Ouch. Coming from a place of empathy (not from teasing you) was this like, you didn’t know how to drive
=pv(rate, nper, pmt, [fv], [type])
or
=fv(rate,nper,pmt,[pv],[type])
with their idiosyncrasies or was it something more fundamental?
For the rest of the forum family, they are both secretly root-finding algorithms in the background so you need to have opposite signs for say the [pmt] and [fv] arguments otherwise the return “NUMERICAL ERROR” which is just a class of all weird number errors and I wish Excel just said “
IDK?” because then I could meet it at the same level.
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i didn’t know how to divide within the cell….
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I know this is slightly out of bounds of your question, but my brain does not alphabetize. Like I have to mentally sing the ABCs to figure out which letter is before or after any other letter. Yes, I do this to this day.
I did not get a part time job in high school at a pharmacy because I was way too slow alphabetizing a list of names. I ended up working that summer at the local Office Depot and it was honestly probably a better fit.
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Don’t worry - yours is not the worst Excel I’ve ever seen.
The worst I’ve seen is when someone had gotten out a calculator, to do the math… so they could type the number into the spreadsheet. It was just a lack of exposure/experience. I hope that made this person’s life way way easier by teaching that Excel is in fact a calculator and not just a way to type tables into a computer!
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I feel understood! I have to do the same. Do you always have to start from the beginning or do you have break points in the ABC song? I can basically start going through the alphabet from the beginning of every musical phrase in the song. (abc…, hij…, lmn…, qrs…, …xyz)
On a related note I also have a problem with mixing up east and west. (left-right are no problem) I always have to say a mnemonic sentence in my head while either literally pointing in the cardinal directions in a clockwise fashion or visualizing that in my head so I don’t look like a dork. In German the mnemonic is “Nie Ohne Seife Waschen” (never wash without soap) for Nord/Ost/Süd/West. I guess there’s something similar in English?
Brains are weird!
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“Never eat Shredded Wheat”!
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never eat soggy weetbix
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never eat soggy waffles
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north east south west
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Came home pretty rattled from work today. A report that someone was armed on campus sent the whole place into lockdown. The report turned out to be false, and might have even been a prank, but a wave of real fear hit me and my kids as I barricaded our door, and tried to stuff us all in the few corners of the classroom that seemed safe (my room has huge windows, plainly visible from the school’s main hall). We hid there, silently, for nearly an hour–of course a few kids got bored in that time and played multiplayer shooters on their phone lol
I have plenty of work left to do this evening, but as soon as I was home and I’d finished reassuring my loved ones that I was safe, I fired up UFO 50’s Pingolf and finally nabbed that cherry disk. Shot -4 under par.
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So glad you and your kids are safe.
Video games are medicine for the soul.
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I did not want to work a double 5am - 1am today but this Thai culture fest is Lit 
Need to remember to share the music and stuff later right now I’m hiccuping and sweating from this spicy vegan curry hopefully my boss reimburses me or they just give me more food for free after lol this is my first meal all day
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I’m scared October could be one of the harder months of my life.
I’ve become a yes man to taking shifts at work. “So long as it’s not graveyard shift, I’ll take it” well without realizing I’ve filled my entire schedule. I planned a trip next week to visit my partner, she’s weaning off antidepressants and it’s getting really hard right now. I don’t really know what’s from the medication or what’s her authentic self. I am working directly up to and directly after my departing and returning flights. Often with little time for sleep or chores/ errands. I have several double shifts scheduled.
And right now, im broke, I need money, and the company owes me $1,2375, they pay only every 30 days. So I don’t really need more shifts, I need money now. So my time would be better spent selling stuff on Craigslist for quick cash. Something I won’t have much time to do between my usual errands I do on bicycle like fetching water, doing laundry, going to the gym to shower, etc. plus for my own mental health I need days to buffer and do whatever I want. And working things out with my partner can take 4-6 hours or more, basically an entire day.
I’m struggling to balance a lot right now.
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Thats rough dude! Are you able to get out of any of the shifts? Ive had trouble saying yes too often in the past and its definitely bit me but I came out okay. Can you plan a soft landing for yourself in November to take a load off?
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Im going to have a meeting with my supervisor tomorrow morning about this.
Also the money will come eventually and I have enough to get by until then, more or less. I have a really low overhead with my lifestyle so don’t worry about me haha. It’s mostly to pay for luxuries I committed to buy on BUYEE like game boy stuff and new clothes. That $12375 for example is more than I need per month. I can live on like $200-$500/ month. In 2018 my annual cost of living was literally only $3k due to frugal lifestyle.
Mainly just venting cause I was scared. My supervisor will understand and I’ll be able to give some shifts to my dad hopefully. With my partner, I think things are gonna be okay, it’s just hard right now and uncertain. I talked to a couple people and feel better :) 
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Senior grounds keeper at my job resembles an older Garcian Smith, especially this week when he pointed at a pile of dirty barricade covers and said
That’s goin to tha Cleanuh
I won’t make him say it again
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I got this problem at work where when I work Sundays this one guy is always working the register in the cafeteria and he started letting me have free coffee. I would usually just go get just a regular coffee at lunchtime and nothing else and bc it’s just a couple bucks I suppose he’s being nice, but it’s not sustainable. Do I have to go to the register every time and ask for coffee then have this guy say it’s on the house every time going forward ? There’s no way I’m doing that, it’s weird. Conversely, does he decide ok now you have to pay? I’m just not drinking work coffee on sunday, possibly forever. Unintended consequences
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I had a similar but reverse situation when I was a cashier at a produce store and a guy kept giving me tips. He was a nice guy who probably just had more money than he needed, but he would sometimes give me like a $20 bill or something. After the first few times, I wondered if he felt forced into doing this every time, so I told him he didn’t have to, but he looked really abashed and then did it anyway. After that, he would sometimes tip and sometimes not, and either way, it was really uncomfortable.
I should also mention that he had circular reflective sunglasses and a big curly moustache that made him resemble Dr. Eggman.
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