Wait, so if I were to import a csv with data that would normally be interpreted as a date by excel, but preceded that data with an apostrophe, it would still recognize that as a date? I’ve never tested this, so I’m not sure.

Relatedly, I know someone who was working some ssn data. Unfortunately, if an SSN started with a 0, it would drop that 0. It was a mess for them. I think there was a recent release that allowed you to not ignore leading 0’s.

Like a high school freshman party, that’s a weak punch.

If you precede all your data with an ', then excel won’t auto convert it total a date. Seems silly to do this for all the data though.

I think the joke is okay and would have worked if I didn’t have to make sense of a number of confusions I had to work through first.

• number being represented by “nr”. Nothing wrong here, just something that I’m not familiar with.
• the use of “floop” to represent the sound of the list hitting the floor
• the lines in the doorway representing, what I’m guessing are, stairs and not connected to the employee as I first considered
• the disappearance of the desk from one panel to another
• the path one manager in red took to get to the door from sitting at the desk

I don’t know if anyone else has these problems to work through, but having had to work through them muted any enjoyment I would have gotten from the joke had that been absent.