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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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Re^2: Waiting ...
by PerlingTheUK (Hermit) on Jun 01, 2005 at 21:56 UTC
    Don't worry my wage is quite reasonable. But all this sort of things comes with the tremendous freedom of working a tiny company. Basically when it comes to how to do software design decisions, you get to do ut your way. If you understand it as a challenge and actually build something yourself it is a damn reward to see it grow.
    Another Advantage of a small company is that you get to do all sorts of work and as there is no one to do the real monkey work you truely get to got on site just to take photos and are still paid good pounds an hour.

    Cheers,
    PerlingTheUK