Someone gave me a 66MByte Excel file with almost 200 sheets, seriously asking me to look up values copy and paste some of these tables into other tables, where he had some surely clever but nevertheless completely non-understandable formulas, then take some other XML-File - preferably copy it into Excel, then manually search some entries, okay I guess you got the point.

Are you really a data-entry lackey, or are you getting paid a programmer's wages to copy and paste stuff from one place in a spreadsheet to another? (I guess I shouldn't ask why the formulas couldn't refer to the correct cells in the first place...)

I read a story once (in Reader's Digest, I think) about a finish carpenter in the cabinetry business, who showed up at a home where he was supposed to resurface the kitchen counter, but when he got there, nobody was home and the counter was covered in dirty dishes. So he washed the dishes, dried them, and put them away. A coworker asked him why he did that... "That's not in your job description. You could have just left and gone back another day." But he said, "Hey, if she wants to pay $60/hour to have her dishes washed, that's fine with me."

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