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________________________________ From: Stephen Russell <[email protected]> To: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 6:49 AM Subject: Re: What kind of moron sends data in an Excel with hidden columns? On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Michael Madigan <[email protected]>wrote: > Let me explain this better. > > My client's customer sent him an Excel sheet to load data. Every month > the format is different. I have been asking them to please sent the data > the same every month. The knuckleheads build it from scratch instead of > automating it. Every month I bill my client for altering the mapping > program to take their data and put it into our system. So my client isn't > happy paying me every month for something that should be the same every > month. Each month the columns are different, different headers, different > locations, etc. > > Along with this program the data within the cells are crap, fields > delimited in each cell with | and : and other nonsense. > > So this time they sent some of the columns as hidden. Sorry, but in 30 > years I've never received a data upload with hidden columns, so it didn't > even occur to me that was the problem. > > So my client keeps telling me to reject the data until they get it right, > so we sent it back. They sent us an email saying it is the correct > format, just that some columns are hidden. Well to me that means I'TS NOT > IN THE SAME FORMAT, but my client is giving me shit that I should have seen > that before I complained and made him look bad. Had i looked and the top > of the columns and seen that it went from F to H, then yeah, but who the > hell checks for that? > ----------------- There's no crying in programming. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmylvu8cktbzmgyk6fw7zonmnk4thoc-x5nnpdu28rvo...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
