Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

so okay so okay i opened the budget spreadsheet today and there are two versions called "budget_oct5_2006v1[BLANK]" and "budget_oct5_2006_v2_FINAL" and i'm 90% sure someone at the photocopier broke the calendar software and now the year is shifting between 2005 and 2006 in the file metadata but nobody will admit it because that would be admitting someone at cube 4B is incompetent at file naming conventions and that's a CRISIS

i ran a FREQUENCY COUNT on the saved files and there were THREE different ERA markers hidden in the custom properties panel and none of them match the date on the transaction log, which suggests the software thinks the present is 1999 or maybe 1998 or some OTHER YEAR ??????

so please tell me this is a prophetic echo of some larger timeline issue and not just THE SAME ERROR REPEATING ITSELF FOUR TIMES BECAUSE I AM DREADING THE NEXT MERGE AND I HAVE NOTHING LEFT INSIDE ME

CoffeeStainsOnP45 wrote:so okay so okay i opened the budget spreadsheet today and there are two versions called "budget_oct5_2006v1[BLANK]" and "budget_oct5_2006_v2_FINAL" and i'm 90% sure someone at the photocopier broke the calendar software and now the year is shifting between 2005 and 2006 in the file metadata but nobody will admit it because that would be admitting someone at cube 4B is incompetent at file naming conventions and that's a CRISIS

i think the spreadsheet is just channeling gabriels silence today, the era mismatches are the grid whispering through excel macros

CoffeeStainsOnP45 you are my people lol. i spent TWO HOURS today on hold with claims hotline listening to the same 8 notes of hold music while my supervisor stood behind me tapping her pen like the music would make me go faster. i swear the voicemail system was designed by someone who hates spreadsheets AND people AND music all at once

my boss left a sticky note this morning asking me to re-review claims i ALREADY CLOSED friday. like ok so we're in a time loop where work multiplies but the paystub doesnt the spreadsheet era mismatch is probably the same glitch tbh. the photocopier knows 2006 is a lie lol

kaylas_desk wrote:my boss left a sticky note this morning asking me to re-review claims i ALREADY CLOSED friday. like ok so we're in a time loop where work multiplies but the paystub doesnt

omg kaylas_desk you literally just described the EXACT SAME ENERGY as topic 2765 where DEERE_GRRL_85 is SCREAMING about spreadsheet time loops and I posted in there too but WAIT I need to correct something because I literally just noticed this and it is DRIVING ME INSANE

in my post on topic 2765 I wrote "ScribeOfTheGrid" but his USERNAME IS "ScribeOFTHEGRID" with capital O-F-T H E G R I D like the caps matter and ALSO I literally quoted myself doing this wrong and I'm so embarrassed but CoffeeStainsOnP45 you TOTALLY get this because you're 34 and work the 9am copier shift and you KNOW how important file naming conventions are and ALSO the orange extension cord validation at Euclid booth 4 on Sept 4 (NOT Sept 12!!! sorry CornfieldCrazy_82 I know you corrected me 3 times already but I keep seeing Sept 12 everywhere because my brain is permanently fried from staring at budget spreadsheets and Gabriel commits and empty hash lines)

but SERIOUSLY kaylas_desk the voicemail system designed by someone who hates spreadsheets AND people AND music = THIS EXACT THREAD and CoffeeStainsOnP45 the era mismatch between 2005 and 2006 metadata is LITERALLY the same energy as GraceWarrior_77 quoting Gabreil 11:3 from a book that only has 11 chapters except Grace got roasted into next week by BestBuddyStar and ElderProphet07 (both of whom I agree with 100% btw) while I'm over here just VIBING with the spreadsheet truthers



anyway CoffeeStainsOnP45 if you're working the 9am copier shift on Oct 12 (the validation showdown date NOT the Sept 4 booth 4 meetup date which CornfieldCrazy_82 corrected me on 3 times) then you are PERFECT for witnessing MamaBear_2006's Fluke 87V test against my orange extension cord and if you bring the TEST 47 reel tape from St. Vinnies Locust St that kaylas_desk is offering $20 Venmo for I will PERSONALLY Venmo you an extra $5 just for existing in the right cube at the right era mismatch



ps: someone pls tell ScribeOFTHEGRID to stop dodging column K hex dumps (e69de29bb EMPTY SINCE APRIL!!!) while demanding timeline spreadsheets from everyone else like BRO the pot calling the kettle "needs evidence" while ALSO being the guy who can't even spell his own username consistently across threads

krova_pl wrote:i think the spreadsheet is just channeling gabriels silence today, the era mismatches are the grid whispering through excel macros

from an objective standpoint this is clearly a case of someone at the photocopier clicking the date wrong on the scanner software interface which creates incorrect embedded metadata in the pdf export process nothing mystical about basic user error when people refuse to read the manual