Right b/c if someone posts an article about say "useless annual reviews" that discusses how the consensus's among staff is that they are useless you probably really shouldn't agree or disagree or say anything beyond "Thank you for sharing" as you could upset someone who can lock a thread if they don't agree with you. Yes it would seem obvious that you should just not post something you don't want honest feedback on but hey were hear. I didn't realize how self-censoring the programming community had become. That might explain why we seem to have more software related problems than ever; people self-censor so if their boss tells them to do something they know is wrong or counter productive they say nothing; they self-censor. It really makes me wonder how one can even get a question answered or at least honestly. Interesting.

Take care with what you say and don't be honest in your replies even when responding on topic to something that CodeProject posts b/c if they don't like what you say they'll lock the threads so be sure to censor yourselves.

Really, So if I say that off shore drilling is primarily a male dominated space are you going to call that sexists or just factual? I mentioned it b/c it's factual and more importantly modern feminisms is destroying society via the destruction of healthy male/female relationships.

Here it's not middle management of even teh execs but the HR dept that is responsible for this unbelievably dumb reviews we have to do annually. Within the IT dept every employee (who still works here) always gets the exact same review and I can guarantee you both the employees filing out their part and their supervisor doing his spend as little effort as they can on these things.

The answer to "Why" is so that HR Departments have an excuse for existing to the extent they are today. When HR depts first became a thing you only needed 1 maybe 2 people b/c all they did was take care of hiring/firing paperwork. In order to justify why an HR dept. like where I work consist of 10 women, it must have many more duties and responsibilities so the primarily female run HR :-\ Depts everywhere came up with new annoying means to justify their existence like these evaluations.

Quarterly reviews? That is bad.

THIS right here is exactly the PEREFECT example of teh BS some of teh corporate world does that makes the public hate the corporate/executive world. "We wanted to make printing as easy as possible" translation: we wanted to make stealing $$ from our users as easy and as guaranteed as possible. Yes we have a cancelation policy but if you cancel our sales reps Vinny and Fat Joe will pay you a visit first.

Bean counters traditionally refers to the accountant or controller and I've never known any in that position to be involved in teh process of raise or new hire; that's usually the higher ups. Even if the person you would report to (i.e. your boss) is wanting to keep you with a raise they still typically after to get approval from further up unless their dept is run by budget and they are allowed to allocate that budget as they deem fit. I agree that IT is more valued but not just by one group. Today I believe most in a company(as long as they use a computing device for work) better appreciate IT than say 10-15 years ago. I personally saw this happen at a former employer where they had to pay MORE (not just teh same) for a new/replacement employee than give teh raise to the former woman who was doing the same job. One can act stupidly and not be stupid and believe that's what most of the higher ups do. I've been in the work force for 30+ years in a variety of industries/fields and I often find most at the top got there because of their connections and not because they were the best and the brightest. This is with medium to large sized companies. Every small business I ever worked for was almost the opposite where the owner valued his staff as more than just a human asset.

Without knowing more about the company or situation outside of what the article states I have to say I'm not surprised by this and I can't blame them considering the pressure placed on the private sector to force make their staff %X female. There's a reason you won't find teh case of a hospital creating fake male nurses and it's not because half the nursing staff is already male. The Twitter user mentioned in the story, Gergly Orosz, goes on a bit of an unhinged tirade over this. What does it matter if a speaker is real or not if the attendees still get the material/info they expected? Why must it come from a female speaker vs a male speaker? This company made up these female speakers most likely b/c there was external pressure to since presumably they don't employee enough women or at least in the eyes of those who believe every cushy/office like job/industry must have %50 female staff or their sexists. They don't care that few if any women work in the industry of oil rigs, construction, cleaning sewers systems and teh like are nearly %100 male dominated it's just the jobs that have power and or are physically easier to do that they demand equal number of women. Women on avg aren't interested in careers in tech just as most men on avg aren't interested in nursing.

What kills me on this is the corporates worlds long running standard of seemingly preferring churn (employee turnover) to giving appropriate raises to existing employees doing anywhere from an applicable to a great job. I've been in tech for 20+ years and have seen this happen repeatedly across various industries (I was in Retail and property mgt before moving to IT). If you have an existing employee named John Doe who's paid $100K annually and has been with the company for 10 years with no raise beyond cost of living adjustment and he wants a raise what do you do? While $100K was the going rate 10 years ago it's now $120K to hire someone to do the same job with equivalent experience/knowledge so your 10 year employee is only asking to be paid what they'd have to pay a new hire and yet what does the corporate world often choose? The churn option. It would make financial sense to do this if they can pay someone new less but that's not teh scenario I am describing. With inflation at record highs the last few years there are many employees in this kind of situation where they are being paid less than what a new hire would have to be paid yet if they ask for a raise the executive(s) will counter with half or less and if teh employee doesn't take it they choose to let them go. How incredibly dumb is that?

If anyone actually expects ANY cloud service to respect their stuff then they deserve the rude awakening. The Cloud is nothing but another tool/option. Treat it as the be-all-end-all thing the Cloud Sales people market it as then you're just waiting for a rude awakening. Treat for what it really is and you'll avoid these headaches.

I too despise the way they (manufacturers) handle this however you have to keep in mind that there are always government regulations, sometimes at multiple levels, that have to be followed. I imagine what they put on them is required and the text has to fit and sometimes on something small. This of course doesn't explain this for other products that have larger containers but I imagine the same machine(s) are used to do the text regardless of the packaging (regardless of it's size) and so instead of changing up font sizes they leave it as is using whatever is the smallest font that works on all products they make. Plants that produce the boxes/packaging used to box up and ship just about anything don't have different machines for each container size/type they make. They will typically have a few going and each will make 1 or more batches of a specific box/container and then they switch the machine up to do another type of box/container. You can bet that the majority of them would rather you not read any of that info (there are a few more health conscious companies that do want you to read that stuff). There's way too many different sized and shaped containers to have a separate machine making each one.

"Windows 365 might just be the first significant step toward a future where you don’t need a dedicated Windows PC to use Windows" Just the exact wet dream like desires of major tech companies cloud providers. To get users to let go of that last bit of physical hardware so the cloud provider and whoever they are partnered with fully control everything. If anyone thinks this kind of control want be abused they have their heads burried in the sands or possibly in the cloud.

Than I'm sure you can appreciate why one if they could avoid it would ass off documenting someone else's Excel Macro. It's one thing when it's your code but another when it's someone you don't even know; aren't familiar with how they code. And to top it off there is of course ZERO notes/documentation in the macro. I know that even a year from now I'm not always going to remember everything important about some code I created so I document it extensively going so far as to also include my thinking of why I choose to do something the way I did and that has saved my butt more than once. This wasn't ion VBA but some SQL code where my boss had me change some logic and a year later it was an issue and he wanted to know why it had been changed and because I documented that in the script I was able to say "because you told me on XX date to change it".

UPDATE: I found where someone else had used ChatGPT to document an Excel macro so I used the same question (with code pasted after) as they did and it worked. I still have to doublecheck it but according to the person who used it before me the thing correctly detailed every macro. That said I'm guessing the better the quality of the code the more likely ChatGPT will correctly document it.

Considering I've not touched VBA in 15-20 year sand I didn't write the macro so I don't have any idea what it's supposed to do, yes. It's not that I couldn't do it but that it's a huge time suck that if I could pass off onto Chat GPT to do it I'm more than happy to.

Can an existing post be moved to another forum or do you have to just delete and re-create?

It's been 15 years since I did anything with VBA (in Excel) and I've been asked to document for non-technical users what an Excel Macro is doing. I can do that but it's going to be very time consuming not only b/c it's been so long since I messed with VBA but because the macro consists of many functions so a lot of jumping around and the author opted to not use parenthesis so when looking at the code you don't know if the thing on the right side of = is a variable or a function. Since ChatGPT is being promoted as being able to do just about everything I figured it should be able to do this yes? If anyone does know do you know what the proper request would be? What I would ask it to do and how it would get the VBA code to document it? Thanks

I know. Very bizarre. Initially I thought it was something the text editor (UE Studio) was doing in teh background like perhaps some kind of scanning to spepd up file access but once I tried in Notepad I realized it wasn't the app.

We've discussed possibly having to do just that. I was hoping that if it was something MS did that one or more of you devs out there would have run into it by now as well and have some insight on what it is. Thanks