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The 4am spreadsheet vs. the whiteboard meeting, I picked wrong
Last quarter I had to choose between updating our inventory tracker in Excel or running the team sync in the conference room at 9am. I picked the spreadsheet since numbers were lagging, but then the CFO, Mark, asked for a live forecast during the meeting and I had nothing but sticky notes. Spent the next 3 hours rebuilding the pivot table while everyone else went to lunch. Anyone else ever bet on the quiet task and lost the room?
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the_jason12d ago
...and honestly my spreadsheet isn't even that much better now because I was so mad I kept typing the wrong cells. I feel like the whiteboard is a trap though, you look productive with all those colorful markers and then realize you just drew a flowchart of what lunch orders people wanted. Next time I'm just gonna bring the sticky notes AND my laptop, and let Mark figure out his own forecast while I hide behind the pivot table like a coward.
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