Sundae posted:Ladies and gentlemen... a loving pharmaceutical company: This is whomever is writing telling you they are not doing it voluntarily.
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I gotta start learning Tableau or PowerBI. Shouldn’t be too bad to pick up if I allocate some Fridays to it. I don’t want to, but our VP had a whole spiel about how excel is outdated for our business needs so I need to play the game and send them some non-excel deliverables to show I’m a good boy.
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May 19, 2023 02:01
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Democratic Pirate posted:I gotta start learning Tableau or PowerBI. I work at a start-up that competes with those two products and let me tell you, the only reason to learn and use any of these tools over Excel is for this exact reason.
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May 19, 2023 02:36
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Dukberry posted:I work at a start-up that competes with those two products and let me tell you, the only reason to learn and use any of these tools over Excel is for this exact reason. Data visualization is really neat when the use case warrants it. When some broke-brained CFO keeps being concerned that "work from home" might mean that the employee is "doing laundry on company time" (as if they were slaving away for hours over a wash tub with a wash board - rather than spending 90 seconds hucking a basket of clothes into the washer and then forgetting about it for 2+ hours) - says Idiot Brained things like "Excel is dead, it is the past, these other tools are the future" then yeah. Like, just because semi trucks exist doesn't mean there isn't a use case for pickup trucks and box trucks, bro; they do different things. SAP isn't going to download to PowerTableauCBT for another 90 years; I'm gonna need Excel in the meantime. Just a bunch of stupid people elevated way above their intellectual capacity making noises in a desperate attempt to sound smart.
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May 19, 2023 09:04
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There are options in between Excel and Tableau/PowerBI though... Not every business is going to need something that powerful or expensive, but may have reached the point that they've outgrown Excel.
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May 19, 2023 09:39
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bee posted:There are options in between Excel and Tableau/PowerBI though... Not every business is going to need something that powerful or expensive, but may have reached the point that they've outgrown Excel. Excel with power query and powerpivot is essentially powerbi anyway from a backend point of view. Just dress the charts up to look like power bi charts and call it a day. Unless boss wants animated bubble charts, they need powerbi to work unfortunately.
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May 19, 2023 10:02
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Luckily we already had a lot of PowerBI stuff set up when our newest CFO was onboarded so he has been a happy camper for a while now. Also quick turnaround for inane change requests is a pro tip here... ...buuut now he wants AI and ML poo poo in there too and we are gonna have to do evasive manouvers for a while now lol. Still if you want to push your pretty graphs to hundreds of people Powerbi service is pretty useful. Also for sharing and managing automatically updated datasets. For more bespoke poo poo, then Excel with Powerpivot is hard to beat though.
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May 19, 2023 11:12
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PowerPoint with the ThinkCell addin is all that you need. Just make up the numbers and create the most bespoke waterfall charts
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May 19, 2023 12:08
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bee posted:There are options in between Excel and Tableau/PowerBI though... Not every business is going to need something that powerful or expensive, but may have reached the point that they've outgrown Excel. Completely agree though I find it kind of hard to believe an entire enterprise has outgrown excel.
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May 19, 2023 14:16
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We got forcefed anaplan because the cto bought a shitload of licenses. Then left to be the cto of anaplan. It feels ok or maybe even good for really narrow use cases. But trying to port bog standard tracking poo poo into anaplan is weird as hell...
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May 19, 2023 14:39
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Friday "huddle" meeting with our VP sent out with 40 minutes notice. No agenda, no idea what it's about. Definitely not good.
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May 19, 2023 16:54
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Best case scenario: someone’s leaving Worst case scenario: someone’s leaving Mid case scenario: your VP is clueless
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May 19, 2023 16:59
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FrozenVent posted:Worst case scenario:
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May 19, 2023 17:10
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Division re-org, one VP retiring, moving some teams from one umbrella to another. Nothing major at this time. Way to stress folks out though, I think they may like doing it.
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May 19, 2023 18:28
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Tbf not like a meeting notice titled “org changes” would be better
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May 19, 2023 18:59
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Baddog posted:We got forcefed anaplan because the cto bought a shitload of licenses. Then left to be the cto of anaplan. Anaplan is great for planning activity, and for really really basic analytics. It's strength and weakness is that only builders can change formulae and other structural poo poo. So you stop Fred in accounting from changing his copy of the budget spreadsheet to calculate pension costs slightly different to everyone else for the bits of the business he deals with, but you also stop the entire analytics team from doing stuff they'd find trivial in excel unless you buy them a builder license. I loving love it for capacity planning and budgeting and it's not great at doing anything else.
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May 19, 2023 19:06
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Tbf not like a meeting notice titled “org changes” would be better Organizational Announcement is another one of those doom headers
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May 19, 2023 19:24
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i can only read it as Analpain
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May 19, 2023 19:28
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what is the analplan
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May 19, 2023 19:44
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anaplan analytics 5 times quickly
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May 19, 2023 19:46
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HiroProtagonist posted:analplan Lisa needs braces
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May 19, 2023 19:47
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Tobias Fünke, Analplanner
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May 19, 2023 20:20
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Dukberry posted:I work at a start-up that competes with those two products and let me tell you, the only reason to learn and use any of these tools over Excel is for this exact reason. I got propositioned (for a job offer) by Tableau once, back before Salesforce snapped them up. When I got out of university, I went to look them up, but Salesforce had acquired them by that time and I got no response to my application. Such is life, I guess.
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May 19, 2023 20:52
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Did my mid year review today with chatGPT and it was an incredible experience. Fed it a few bullets of accomplishments and the format of the review template. A couple back and forth exchanges and I had the best one I've ever written. Just incredible stuff. I have no guilt since the content was all mine, but I outsourced all the flowery corporate prose and perfunctory bullshit. 10/10, would use again
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May 19, 2023 22:05
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TraderStav posted:I have no guilt since the content was all mine, but I outsourced all the flowery corporate prose and perfunctory bullshit. 10/10, would use again In a perfect world we could get crap like chatGPT to actually help with things like finding the right word in a paragraph, etc. The in-built thesaurus in Word is absolutely dire. Even though I accept the fact that it doesn't use context clue, the alternatives it offers are limited, usually too informal and mostly useless.
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May 20, 2023 05:43
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Generating content is no issue for me, what I need is for ChatGPT to ruthlessly edit and condense my writing down to nothing.
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May 20, 2023 06:04
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They're making everyone do goals for this cycle. I stopped doing that bullshit years ago and everyone in my first few lines of management has as well. The email was full of additional lovely corporate bullshit like "build your personal brand" and other nonsense. I asked ChatGPT to make me something.  I'm gonna workshop it a tiny bit more but whatever, this will do.
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May 20, 2023 06:39
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Vasudus posted:They're making everyone do goals for this cycle. I stopped doing that bullshit years ago and everyone in my first few lines of management has as well. The email was full of additional lovely corporate bullshit like "build your personal brand" and other nonsense. lmfao yea this would absolutely "resonate" with some people i'm dead sure AI bullshit is worthless apart from culture jamming poo poo like this. i haven't had to set MEANS style "goals" as part of a performance evaluation since several years ago but i'd absolutely spit bullshit like this if i had to now
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May 20, 2023 06:55
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I just need something to make me not sound like an unfeeling robot when I write emails but I kind of doubt AI is going to excel at that so I use emojis instead.
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May 20, 2023 06:55
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therobit posted:I just need something to make me not sound like an unfeeling robot when I write emails but I kind of doubt AI is going to excel at that so I use emojis instead. 🍆🍆🍆💦💦💦🤤🤤🤑🤑🤑🤑💵
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May 20, 2023 07:04
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Feel free to copy paste that by the way, gratis
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Democratic Pirate posted:Generating content is no issue for me, what I need is for ChatGPT to ruthlessly edit and condense my writing down to nothing. It can do that fairly well. Can actually use "tldr" as the prompt, heh.
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May 20, 2023 07:11
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Vasudus posted:They're making everyone do goals for this cycle. I stopped doing that bullshit years ago and everyone in my first few lines of management has as well. The email was full of additional lovely corporate bullshit like "build your personal brand" and other nonsense. Goddamned this is great.
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May 20, 2023 13:55
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My goals for this year are “continue to develop in <new role>”, and I expect to keep using that one for a few years.
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May 20, 2023 14:59
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FrozenVent posted:My goals for this year are “continue to develop in <new role>”, and I expect to keep using that one for a few years. wow same buddy, what are the odds? i wish us both the best of luck in our personal development program of um *checks notes* "doing [our] job without being bothered by this bullshit career `coaching`" 
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May 20, 2023 15:36
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I had to sit through an hour of someone telling my entire directorate about the "culture model" this week. gently caress you guys, I just want to do my job and be left alone, the only culture model that's required is "don't be a dick" and anyone that tries to "well actually" their way out of that one rule should be fired.
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May 20, 2023 16:15
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I couldn't do my job yesterday because we had a world metrology day and invited other random people to show up and eat brisket and pulled pork that one of our guys made. There was also a presentation and demonstrations of some of the boring stuff we do. I mean it was nice to get paid and hang out for a few hours and only a couple people came by to see me show them how cool oscilloscopes can be
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May 20, 2023 23:34
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Hotel Kpro posted:I couldn't do my job yesterday because we had a world metrology day and invited other random people to show up and eat brisket and pulled pork that one of our guys made. There was also a presentation and demonstrations of some of the boring stuff we do. I mean it was nice to get paid and hang out for a few hours and only a couple people came by to see me show them how cool oscilloscopes can be Idk storm forecasting sounds pretty cool, is an oscilloscope a fancy barometer?
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May 21, 2023 02:34
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Oscilloscopes do rock. The little lunchbox ones are my fav especially now that they have colour screens and all that. It’s fun when you happen on an old one that still boots windows 95 and takes decades to start up lol (usually those are logic analyzers though)
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I finally made a post on LinkedIn. Hooray for me that some people actually liked it, I was worried it’d sit there with no comments or anything like the one guy that always posts about bitcoin and blockchain stuff with never a sniff of attention. Almost feel bad for the guy, but it’s blockchain so nope 
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