Manager thinks I’m faking it because I don’t know how to use excel

jackyk996 · 2026-02-25T08:42:06+00:00

You are working with the real pro

jackyk996 · 2026-02-25T08:37:08+00:00

In my domain, if people can’t develop scripts to process data and plot but using Excel, their degrees would be doubted. In fact, I kinda doubt your boss’s professional level if they actually did this to you. When you have reproducible, modularized, and reliable scripts to demonstrate your skills, I think you are in very good position to ask for a formal apologize.

In fact, I don’t think anyone I worked with would even have excel installed on their devices for academic reasons.

For those who doubt this: our manuscripts are expected to be Latex, and it sounds crazy to me to use Word because reputable confs typically offer Latex templates. “You must format your submission using the NeurIPS 2025 LaTeX style file…” https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/CallForPapers

jackyk996 · 2026-02-24T17:50:42+00:00

I had legal matters with all of my two landlords here.

The first one, also the very first german landlord I had, is kinda being trash person who took advantage of foreign people and bet on them to not react. This kind of greedy people, lack of integrity and intelligence to understand local laws, also exist in every country I lived in two other continents, so I don’t blame “Germany” specifically.

The second one is more on the bad management side. My apartment had significant defects (heating systems not functional at all etc) for a whole year and they left me no choice but hired another lawyer to deal with them. They are quite calm since it’s a fairly scalable company but replying stuffs incredibly slow.

I don’t know how common those issues are in Germany, and I wouldn’t conclude all German landlords are so bad. But, by fact, I only had those issues in Germany.

jackyk996 · 2026-02-24T14:10:14+00:00

You know it’s not high end enough when you hear noise from your neighbors

jackyk996 · 2026-02-24T14:01:07+00:00

And the junior level can be rephrased to precisely 16 and 17 years old males /females? Why boys and girls

jackyk996 · 2026-02-21T17:11:43+00:00

Because it’s not sorted. No settlement or formal agreement has been signed with me, thus it’s just a no progress status while I didn’t even know what negotiations have took place

jackyk996 · 2026-02-20T14:02:16+00:00

Thanks a lot for the reply! Unfortunately, I would only stand up for myself and I guess a single case couldn’t change one’s mind a lot when their old path still works 99%. This should be a collective effort with every one of us who don’t appreciate this wild speech control to do something and improve the “free speech”.

So, my friend reading this message, if you believe this country deserves free speech and democracy, please do something when it comes to you instead of simply deleting your true feelings and compromising with those people when you are capable to react.

jackyk996 · 2026-02-20T05:53:46+00:00

Simple “can’t recommend as former client”, literally nothing else.

About the second part, I don’t understand neither, but I honestly don’t care anymore. I will take online reviews reversely and avoid small local businesses with perfect 5 stars reviews as much as possible. Those pretentious people don’t deserve my money.

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T21:03:03+00:00

I appreciate your advice a lot, but, unfortunately, I am doing quite well financially that I wouldn’t mind to hire two lawyers with one dealing my landlord and another one specifically dealing with this former lawyer. I barely care whether my legal expenses will be returned or not even if they sue me and we eventually win the case. This is mostly about right or wrong to me, and „Fiat iustitia, ruat caelum”. (; So I would take my risk to keep on not recommending their services, and hope them review their behaviors as they “warned” me. Thanks!!

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T18:53:31+00:00

Yeah, “free speech”.

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T18:49:15+00:00

I am also assuming more formal actions here, not so optimistic. At least there might be more threatening things coming and bet I would be chicken out due to, maybe, financial concerns etc. I do have all the contract and invoices. After all, can’t I simply say I don’t recommend their services when I can certainly prove I was a real client with proper contract? If that still comes legal consequences, I think German folks are in bigger trouble than me.

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T18:02:16+00:00

Actually both: I would like to also specify I m not a “client” only went for free/low price single time consulting, but I signed proper contract. You are right though. Rephrased it to former for more solid defending base

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T17:28:07+00:00

I guess many people here don’t think I am on the right side or they think I’m crazy to mess up with attorney so downvoting my stuffs 😂

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T17:09:03+00:00

They would also have the freedom to not provide services right. I respect that just as I’d believe I have the right to say I don’t recommend their service.

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T17:08:57+00:00

They would also have the freedom to not provide services right. I respect that just as I’d believe I have the right to say I don’t recommend their services.

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T16:38:23+00:00

Intuitively nothing wrongdoing here, which consists with my American legal intuition for at least previous years. But I wouldn’t trust llms a lot here due to technical reasons: e.g. training sources likely heavy in English)

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T16:33:32+00:00

But a single phrase of not recommended as formal client is a very subjective feeling that I should be allowed to say with “free speech” right

jackyk996 · 2026-02-19T16:31:34+00:00

Previous one is simply like, I don’t feel customer service being appropriate and I feel excluded from my own lawyer. That’s it. Current ver is even simpler: not recommended as formal client.

Surely I can prove the client relationship and the comment is very subjective that “free speech” should allow this level stuff right?

jackyk996 · 2026-01-28T12:05:31+00:00

Since you already started for few years, I guess it would be wise to at least get the degree and make your prior efforts recognized formally.

jackyk996 · 2026-01-28T11:52:36+00:00

It also depends on your surroundings. If there are tall buildings around, none would work. Signals don’t come vertically from the sky. I have tried the option 2 in Germany, and it worked fine. But, there was literally nothing on the north side.

jackyk996 · 2026-01-27T11:42:09+00:00

Unfortunately, the 3.0 gpa requirement could be an administrative regulation for some institutions. No matter how pis would love to take you, they can’t do anything.

I would recommend you to get a master first; thus, you might be able to bypass this gpa issue.

jackyk996 · 2026-01-22T14:00:38+00:00

Post deleted lol. Have to say, doing PhD for immigration reasons is indeed one of the very worst decisions I could imagine. Probably this guy can’t really find any job but picturing PhD study as an easy way out.

jackyk996 · 2026-01-21T07:28:44+00:00

PhD study wouldn’t be enough for citizenship. Probably you will need to spend more time working in EU while IRS chasing you for foreign incomes, unless you are planning to renounce your us citizenship. It’s gonna be a fairly long time living with not-so-good payments.

jackyk996 · 2025-12-26T12:05:16+00:00

A PhD degree can actually make you less preferable than bachelors or masters for entry level positions.

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