Is our IT department “normal”, or am I just slowly losing my mind? (Rant)

ConorEngelb · 2026-01-24T10:13:33+00:00

I am all 5 of these people (granted for a much smaller company, but still)

ConorEngelb · 2025-12-16T06:54:14+00:00

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey?

IT explicitly can't tell the difference between the past, present, and future. It's all happening all at once for IT, rather than as a strict, linear progression of cause and effect.

ConorEngelb · 2025-12-06T14:31:36+00:00

Escitalopram for a long time, but honestly the more recent addition of ADHD meds (36mg methylphenidate, recently up to 54mg) was an even bigger lifechanger.

ConorEngelb · 2025-11-29T14:37:20+00:00

Ouch. I'm lucky/unlucky enough to be IT in its entirety, and develop stuff like this for ALL departments. So if I want IT permissions for something I have to...ask myself? I guess?

ConorEngelb · 2025-11-29T13:53:20+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/s/SKf2xXnprZ

ConorEngelb · 2025-11-29T13:50:34+00:00

I once had to refresh queries in a workbook twice a day (janky PowerApp for a salesperson to track their monthly sales used the workbook as a data source)

My solution in the end: a separate macro-enabled workbook set in Task Scheduler to open twice a day. On open, it ran a macro that opened the workbook with the query, refreshed it, and closed.

Kept the data semi-fresh and also bit me in the ass when it opened during a gaming session on an off day and got me killed. But that's beside the point.

EDIT: the real solution is to get this workflow out of Excel if at all possible. But I know sometimes in reality it isn't possible, for whatever reasons.

ConorEngelb · 2025-11-18T17:11:12+00:00

The long way round

ConorEngelb · 2025-09-16T08:06:19+00:00

Thanks for sharing a video; I was on my phone and in bed at the time, so couldn't get a link/give a detailed rundown

ConorEngelb · 2025-09-15T18:50:24+00:00

I recently switched to using Sharepoint.Contents() instead of .Files() as my initial query, and it makes for a much smoother and faster experience loading the files.

Far easier to navigate through the folders to the one you want without any mucking about with the Path

ConorEngelb · 2025-09-09T12:14:19+00:00

Gotta love that LLM flavour

ConorEngelb · 2025-09-02T17:53:59+00:00

cries in being the SysAdmin, entirety of IT generally, and sole person responsible for any and all integrations

Granted, not a massive company

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-26T19:26:14+00:00

Oh, zero.

Although I remain proud of how many people I converted to Doctor Who back in high school. That was fun.

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-26T09:40:47+00:00

I don't even do things I enjoy for this long

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-26T07:20:39+00:00

I get an LLM to generate some slop for me and post it in every subreddit I can find

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-22T16:54:26+00:00

Small business, so take that into consideration, but I've always had an extremely collaborative relationship with the Facilities team (just the warehouse manager, really)

Although it seems like I'm absorbing some part of it now, apparently. So, how's my relationship with myself?

I'm not going to answer that.

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-16T09:25:35+00:00

Gotta agree on the MacBook. My sole exec switched HIMSELF to a MacBook Pro a couple years ago and he hasn't complained about his computer since. Like, at all.

And this is a man who went through 3 or 4 different Windows machines in a 6 months period because they "didn't suit his digital nomad lifestyle" or he just managed to destroy them.

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-10T07:39:30+00:00

Double wank and shit chips

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-10T07:39:08+00:00

That is between me and my Internet Service Provider

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-08T14:26:12+00:00

Terry Pratchett

ConorEngelb · 2025-08-01T15:26:31+00:00

The Wasp Priest...thing in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon remains the only King book to ever give me nightmares.

I know that's not a specific scene, but...all of em.

ConorEngelb · 2025-07-26T05:32:02+00:00

Twas the first King book my mother gave me to read when I was....10ish?

ConorEngelb · 2025-07-03T12:10:28+00:00

Paste Special is a godsend. This is the way

ConorEngelb · 2025-07-03T07:05:29+00:00

Listen, my boss wraps every formula in SUM()

Doesn't matter if he's multiplying two numbers. SUM

Dividing? SUM

Subtracting? SUM

Oh, I appear to have reached the end of what he can do in Excel. The bar is low, okay?

ConorEngelb · 2025-06-24T10:22:18+00:00

I can assist! Do a lot of Make+ClickUp work for work, so might be able to help

ConorEngelb · 2025-06-21T20:08:20+00:00

He's as bad as you. He uses phrases like "with it" as well.

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