I've gone cross-eyed v.data entry

Publius · 08-10-2006, 05:50 PM

Yesterday and today I've put in 698 lines of a new spreadsheet my boss has me making for the Islamic Garden here at the cemetery, it's basically the lots (each lot is separated into 4 blocks, with typically 4 burial spaces per block) and who owns them and if someone is in the space.

I had no idea you could spell Mohammad 11ty billion different ways.

Publius · 08-10-2006, 05:51 PM

Even worse, I'm only about halfway done ... Maybe a little under halfway.

Sheana · 08-10-2006, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Publius

Even worse, I'm only about halfway done ... Maybe a little under halfway.

only 24 min till we can leave for the day

beez · 08-11-2006, 11:20 AM

That's nothing. Two months ago a group of 8 of us had to go through 30k lines
each of spreadsheet hell, analyzing each row to delete bad data and highlight good data.

Publius · 08-11-2006, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by beez

That's nothing. Two months ago a group of 8 of us had to go through 30k lines
each of spreadsheet hell, analyzing each row to delete bad data and highlight good data.

Delicious.

Was your deadline only 4 business days later though?

Publius · 08-11-2006, 04:47 PM

I'm done with my project!!!

1,635 entries in total.

Stylerod · 08-11-2006, 04:51 PM

So you map out plots in Excel???

beez · 08-11-2006, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Publius

Delicious.

Was your deadline only 4 business days later though?

Three days. No joke. We did this more than once as well. I started revising my resume that week

Publius · 08-11-2006, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by Stylerod

So you map out plots in Excel???

No, I just had to input (in text) the location of the plot, owner, date of purchase, contract #, if someone was interned I put who, when, and the # on that, and any comments on the form.

Publius · 08-11-2006, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by beez

Three days. No joke. We did this more than once as well. I started revising my resume that week

Jesus

Sheana · 08-11-2006, 05:25 PM

doug is in here if you wanna come over here and ask him that question

Publius · 08-11-2006, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by Sheana

doug is in here if you wanna come over here and ask him that question

just tell him to check his email and get back to me please.

Sheana · 08-11-2006, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Publius

just tell him to check his email and get back to me please.

he's not goign to his office any time soon. he's busy with some bonus stuff or something

Ardentfrost · 08-11-2006, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by Publius

No, I just had to input (in text) the location of the plot, owner, date of purchase, contract #, if someone was interned I put who, when, and the # on that, and any comments on the form.

Is it given to you in a printout or something? I mean, if they give it to you electronically, you can paste special and probably save a lot of time

Or is that what you're doing?

I could seriously never see myself doing data entry

Publius · 08-11-2006, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Ardentfrost

Is it given to you in a printout or something? I mean, if they give it to you electronically, you can paste special and probably save a lot of time

Or is that what you're doing?

I could seriously never see myself doing data entry

It was a printout, and formatted completely differently from the spreadsheet I had to create. If I had Sheana's phone I'd take a picture of the 2 books I had to pull the data from ... They're literally, sitting one on top of the other, probably 3-4" thick.