#43

You poor sod. (@yuggy)

#44

Running a macro that should autosend a bunch of emails with files attached. But we don’t trust the macro so I have it prepare 50 draft emails at a time then manually check them before sending.

They’ll all be fine. I know they’ll all be fine. And yet check them I must.

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#45

creating a powerpoint deck which summarises progress on various projects

it’s not going that great

#46

Trying to come up with a formula to search text for keywords in excel. Needs to match any keyword in the rows of keywords, but some keywords have additional words in adjacent columns that also have to match, so it is matching list of ors, made up of columns of ands.

#47

trying to figure out how to mount an air nozzle for a cooling system onto a laser sensor housing when i’ve forgotten to leave any usable space for mounting holes in either of those parts

it’s not going very well

#48

#49

i understand all of those words on their own

#50

I can assure you it’s even worse being responsible for creating the damn things.

#51

double checking the sales pipeline

#52

answering questions from corporate groups about doing volunteer days

#53

not only am i preparing a slide for my end of year performance review, but i’m also reviewing the end of year slides for the three people unfortunate enough to have me as their appraiser. it’s like the fun of performance reviews has been multiplied by four!

#54

Checking that clinical trial data that has been entered into our database matches what has been written in the patient’s notes and checking that the hospital haven’t messed up in any way.

#55

you have to do slides, that’s terrible.

I never actually sent my appraisal off lol, the mid year one comes up soon. I don’t know what’ll happen then.

#56

Driving around delivering my mango orders. When I get home I will enter the my various sales information into saleforce in order to be able to see my sales in various useless ways. Also Mangomonthly have been on at me to write a piece for their magazine so I suppose I am going to have to get round to doing that.

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#57

Logging a defect with the development team for the umpteenth time.

#59

UPDATE: Celeste will arrange accordingly. No word from Daphne*.

*) the Celeste in Daphne and Celeste was called Celeste in real life. Daphne was called Karen, obviously.

#60

I am scheduling a week’s worth of posts on two different platforms, all relating to a book festival.

#61

i thought this was a reply to what colour of jacket pniks should buy

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#62

Also a pretty safe way (probably not in your case) to spend your days depressed and underemployed.

#63

Writing a briefing note explaining how we should move a company which we own all of into a different structure which we only own part of (and which doesn’t yet exist*), making sure it will all have happened before the thing that the company owns changes from being worth very little to being worth a great deal.

*this is tomorrow’s problem.