Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. Observations

Observations

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
24 Posts 14 Posters 3 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • L Lost User

    The bloke on the next desk to me uses a pocket calculator to add up lists of numbers that are contained in an Excel spreadsheet. I've tried telling him about the calculating abilities built into Excel but he won't listen and continues to use the pocket calculator (He says I've got this calculator I bought in 1990 so I'm going to continue to use it!). Now he's complaining that the batteries in the pocket calculator are running out... Oh well at least its Friday.

    M Offline
    M Offline
    Marc Clifton
    wrote on last edited by
    #21

    Mark Parity wrote:

    Now he's complaining that the batteries in the pocket calculator are running out...

    Suggest that he uses the calculator on his phone. :) But what I really wonder is, if you were to give him a VBA script that plugs into Excel that creates a calculator ([like this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDxA34t4pr4)) would his brain short-circuit? :laugh:

    Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

    L 1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • L Lost User

      The bloke on the next desk to me uses a pocket calculator to add up lists of numbers that are contained in an Excel spreadsheet. I've tried telling him about the calculating abilities built into Excel but he won't listen and continues to use the pocket calculator (He says I've got this calculator I bought in 1990 so I'm going to continue to use it!). Now he's complaining that the batteries in the pocket calculator are running out... Oh well at least its Friday.

      P Offline
      P Offline
      Paul Kemner
      wrote on last edited by
      #22

      I remember accountants using Excel as a word processor.

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • M Marc Clifton

        Mark Parity wrote:

        Now he's complaining that the batteries in the pocket calculator are running out...

        Suggest that he uses the calculator on his phone. :) But what I really wonder is, if you were to give him a VBA script that plugs into Excel that creates a calculator ([like this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDxA34t4pr4)) would his brain short-circuit? :laugh:

        Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

        L Offline
        L Offline
        Lost User
        wrote on last edited by
        #23

        Oh his (smart)phone is strictly for calling people. I once suggested there was an app for something or another, the reply was "I don't have any apps on my (smart)phone

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • C Chris Quinn

          [Problems!](https://xkcd.com/1906/)[^]

          ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

          G Offline
          G Offline
          Gary Wheeler
          wrote on last edited by
          #24

          No sh*t. I work for a company where all of the technical managers are former mechanical engineers. Every document is an Excel spreadsheet, or a spreadsheet embedded in a PowerPoint presentation they pilfered from a marketing yabbo. It's spelled W-o-r-d you morons.

          Software Zen: delete this;

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          Reply
          • Reply as topic
          Log in to reply
          • Oldest to Newest
          • Newest to Oldest
          • Most Votes


          • Login

          • Don't have an account? Register

          • Login or register to search.
          • First post
            Last post
          0
          • Categories
          • Recent
          • Tags
          • Popular
          • World
          • Users
          • Groups