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Wutz your IQ?


Happy Panther

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You sure they weren't just trying to avoid a lawsuit because of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

did I take that one too far?

LOL. Nah, I could walk back then. I've only been in the 'chair' for the past 5 years.

When you get out in the workforce, it's really what you do more than how smart you are.

One of the best things I ever created for IBM was the "Space-Time Continuum". IBM used to have these strategic plans every 6 months. It took 3 people about 70 hours work in one week to complete it, just for our section. When Excel hit, I created this massive spread sheet that used to take 20 minutes with a 386 machine to calculate. But it could do the work of 210 man hours in about 6-8 hours. I spent ever spare minute and weekends working on it for 6 months.

The site manager wanted to know how I created it and what it did. So I was called into his office with a bunch of other big wigs. I was about 20 minutes into my demo, when he stopped me and and asked how much longer. In all honesty, I was just scratching the surface, so I told him. So he said that most of what I had said had gone over his head and that we didn't need to continue.

I ended up getting a nice cash award out of it, and a new 486 computer. LOL (That cut the calculating time to under 6 minutes!)

Did my IQ have anything to do with it? I always felt it was just my understanding of the warehouse, distribution of products and knowing Excel. My co-workers were impressed with it, but probably because they didn't have to spend their week at work.

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