What do you do for a living?

[Nyanko]

I work in the HR department of the UK office of a global company, and it's my job to turn sheets of boring figures into something more exciting and user friendly !!!

For example - our payroll department run some spreadsheets that would make your eyes bleed and go through the most complex process to update formulas that haven't worked since the late nineties. It's my job to stop them spending half a day copying and pasting stuff from one sheet to another... for a start !

It's great in many ways because
a) no one knows how I do what I do (it's just magic)
b) I get given mini projects/problems to solve and therefore learn a bit more VBA in the process !
c) I can justify my mrexcel time as work research !

If I could only get my manager to realise the complexity of what I do then I'd be truely happy !

 

[Stormseed]

I can justify my mrexcel time as work research !

I would go with you on this point ! I am doing the same thing ! YO !!

 

[DonkeyOte]

Riaz: "Just reach for a cuppa of Brooke Bond "

Oh my... that's b-a-d !

Nyanko -- the one thing I learnt from helping out the HR dept in my old place was that no-one in HR could agree with the Directors on how to calculate turnover !

 

[cornflakegirl]

Luke - why were the directors and HR in charge of calculating turnover?

 

[Richard Schollar]

I expect bonuses got paid out based on some turnover numbers

 

[zmorley77]

I'm a Operations Analyst for a Healthcare Company.

 

[riaz]

Oh my... that's b-a-d !

Would Essex people Basildon Bond? Or is that only on paper?

I expect bonuses got paid out based on some turnover numbers

Bonuses for people who make iPods and Macs depend on Apple turnover. Everyone gets a slice of the pie.

 

[TinaP]

Bonuses for people who make iPods and Macs depend on Apple turnover. Everyone gets a slice of the pie.

Get thee to a punnery!

 

[DonkeyOte]

Employee turnover... I was amazed/impressed/disconcerted at just how many different ways people were calculating this figure... I think in part it depended on to whom the numbers were being presented and in which context!

Riaz... superb !

Richard how strange it is that as a City boy you immediately thought of bonuses...

 

[mike21mcd]

I managed a Fixed income Security portfolio for a bank for the last few years, but have recently switched to doing Asset / Liability management. Basically managing the balance sheet and interest rate risk for the bank.