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‘You didn’t just succeed, you Exceled’: Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator’ wins spreadsheet world championship (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Found out accounting was manually going through a monster list of line items and deleting zeroed rows.

Manger's meeting: "Uh, guys, I can write a PowerShell script to do that in seconds. Can someone tell me exactly what you're looking for and deleting?"

CFO blew me off, didn't understand what I was offering. Went to her second-in-command and explained. 24-hours later...

"Holy shit! You saved my girls 2-hours of work a day!!!"

The department got me a nice present. :) But better yet, the goodwill I earned was great for everyone. Something to be said for helping one another.