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A Developer Story: Patrick Powell

Patrick Powell on September 16, 2018

I've tried to write a post similar to this about 1,387,923,465 times, but it's about time I actually hit send I've Been "Coding" Sinc...
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Peter Kim Frank

Thanks for sharing your story, and welcome!

The 3-strike policy sounds ridiculously arbitrary in the context of your overall contributions, but I'm sure there will be long-term upside as you continue building your skills and projects. Look forward to seeing those advice/tutorial posts in the future.

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Patrick Powell

Thanks, I appreciate the kind words. I actually have quite a few Excel tutorials written / on YouTube already, I just haven't posted them yet. I wasn't sure how many people on here would benefit from Excel instead of code tutorials.

I agree about the 3 strike policy, working from home was also strictly prohibited even though they made sure I was given a laptop instead of a desktop for mobility. Oh well.

What it came down to is that my report was exposing / assigning blame for the previous week's invoice errors (Out of Stocks, Wrong Product Delivered etc.).

So if Janice forgot to place an order for bananas and 120 customers ordered bananas that week & didn't get them she would get hit with 120 errors, which doesn't reflect well on her.

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habeeb adewale hassan

Awesome post

Pretty learnt something new from your rigorous learning scheme, which i cannot really tell exactly what it is, but i noticed the awakening of my dopamine whilst reading your post.

All the best in your future endeavors.

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Antonio Radovcic

Great Post! Sounds like you'd be better off in a smaller/non-huge company with somewhat looser attendance-policies.
My wife works in accounting and when I showed her a bit of JS and she did the Swift-Playgrounds she was like "thats really similar to what I do in Excel all day"! And it is! She'd be a much better coder than me if she would start practising (she totally beat my ass in the "human resource machine")
Anywayses good luck in future and looking forward to future posts!

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UPDATESFORME

Thank you for sharing your insights and experience with us, Patrick.

Your story is inspiring.