Pointy haired madness
Jan. 8th, 2007 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thermalsatsumaThere was a minor panic at work today.
The sales order spreadsheets (four of them at the last count) all needed amending to add a field to indicate if they were a so-called catalyst order and if so a date range for the order. Not especially tricky, but time consuming and awkward, especially when it was decided to include a macro to force date entry where applicable every time a new spreadsheet was created from a template.
I finished the work and then it was pointed out that the catalyst order was actually spelt catalist, so I had to go back and change umpty-something references including the titles in the data validation messages to match.
What pointy haired eejit thought that one up, eh? I'm assuming that it's a portmanteau word made up by some combination of catalogues and lists or something, invented some hideously overpaid management consultant (a word composed of con and insult) somewhere.
Grrr and hurrumph.
The sales order spreadsheets (four of them at the last count) all needed amending to add a field to indicate if they were a so-called catalyst order and if so a date range for the order. Not especially tricky, but time consuming and awkward, especially when it was decided to include a macro to force date entry where applicable every time a new spreadsheet was created from a template.
I finished the work and then it was pointed out that the catalyst order was actually spelt catalist, so I had to go back and change umpty-something references including the titles in the data validation messages to match.
What pointy haired eejit thought that one up, eh? I'm assuming that it's a portmanteau word made up by some combination of catalogues and lists or something, invented some hideously overpaid management consultant (a word composed of con and insult) somewhere.
Grrr and hurrumph.