I think it might even be more errors in Excel than 1/5th, but I'll go with your cite.

I like a nice spreadsheet - I use them for design applications in electronics. But some of the stuff I've seen bean counters and a few others always evoke the "Hold on a second, something's not right here!" response.

But many people believe that if it is in Excel, it is correct.

You mad bro? You never heard "A fool and his Money are soon parted?

I apologize profusely for introducing humor into a place with humorless people. May you always have to use software you hate.

I tried it once ugh - not ready fro prime time. One of my guys seems to love it, he must have a really low bar. I have people on Windows, Mac and Linux. And Microsoft has no solution for that. Unless things have changed a lot, Windows office doesn't do well when trading files. I remember when people were making posters in Poerpoint, the files they made were on a Windows machine, and PowerPoint assumed that was the size print to use. When we changed it to our large format printer on the Macs, it exploded, nothing was where it was supposed to be. Colors wrong, images distorted. Finding where the text disappears to was a game of "Where's Waldo"

Then there is absolutely zero problem. The falsely accused are of no importance, mere collateral damage in reshaping society.

We are blessed to see that false accusations hardly exist, and when it happens, it is inconsequential.

Except perhaps to the person whose life is destroyed.

Your post reminds me of a local Dentist who was accused of Rape of one of his patients. He was utterly destroyed. She claimed he sedated her, took her to her home and raped her.

He went on trial, and as it turned out, they were having a consensual affair. What happened was they were caught by her husband, so to avoid issues, she claimed rape. The trial was just providing proof of the ongoing affair, and how her story did not add up - like the drugs the Dentist presumably used wouldn't render her unconscious (as well is immediately waking up when her husband found them. Took only an hour, and he was found not guilty.

Meanwhile, the local womanist. crowd went haywire. They either refused to believe it, or the best one - that if they found him not guilty of rape, than the millions of women who were, would not report it. So pretty obvious that lying, destroying a man's career, and if convicted getting 25 years was of no consequence at all.

The same thing has happened to sports teams, one of my favorites was a young lady who had a three way with a couple football players, she was caught and claimed they raped her. Destroyed their lives, even after it was found that she lied. Just a blip on the radar screen of importance.

IOW false reports are irrelevant to justice.

You do know there are many other forms of employment that are not as you call them, corporate indoctrination.

I'm the CEO of a Charitable 501C3() (3) corporation that served the public good. Am I indoctrinated - you made a blanket statement.

I also work for an institution that is involved with a lot of money. I kind of assume you are extreme far left, if not, you might consider not having your posts imply that you are a Marxist/Leninist. Whatevs.

But here is the problem. There can be people who want to do social good, and don't care at all about post graduation compensation. Give them three meals and a place to sleep, they are okay. There are also people who are concerned with renumeration. I personally don't need the money I am paid now, I already have sufficient resources. But I'm not going to refuse pay. I have a skillset that is worth money. I'm just so curious how I fit into your rigid worldview. I'm the same person when I'm doing the charitable work as I am when working for money. I even use a not insignificant mouth of my money in support of that charity.

Here's the earth shattering part possibly. There is room for everyone. The altruistic self sacrificing types, and those who are not as altruistic, and might be chasing money, in many cases to support their families and insure an estate for their offspring.

I know a wide spectrum of people, there is a wide spectrum of good and evil in each group. I know some well to do corporate types who are the kindest people you'd ever meet. I know some real assholles too. On the other hand the same applies with people considered wonderful because they are helping others. Some are nice, and some hate anyone that makes more money than them, especially those indoctrinated corporate people. Assholes are everywhere.

I much prefer judging a person by the contents of their mind and their personality, rather than your presumed social position metric, where a person's goodness is inversley proportional to their paycheck. But you do you, homie.

And if you are really good at what you do, awesome - no problems. I will note that a degree isn't always the path to those extra zero's. In my own case, I didn't work in my actual field until after I retired and was offered a job I couldn't refuse.

Can you do a dissertation on how say, a Gender Studies degree is worth the same amount as say, an EE degree?

Been my experiences that the Opinion degrees tend to not be as monetarily rewarding as those that take some serious study and application. Not for nothing, not everyone has the ability to be an electrical engineer, and certainly renumeration in ones career is likewise not a universal metric. Some people do things just for the love of it.

But some degrees offer one career path - you replace the professor or instructor. So if 300 people are trying to replace just a few, the employment prospect in the field are going to leave a lot of people having to be employed elsewhere. And a few degrees are even considered a bit toxic today.

There is a point to that. It is a mix of things. Having self esteem driven into them without having any real accomplishments, being told that having a degree - any degree - made them ubermenchen. Social expectations delivered to them that they had no boundaries, and Pop culture expectations that took a few young successful people, led many to believe that was the norm, that they deserved to have a big paycheck at their introductory level job, and have a meteoric rise to leadership positions almost immediately.

As well as having a really rough time trying to understand that. I have long been on record that these young people have been really shortchanged by us, their parents. Yet if I mention anything that might be considered mild criticism, I am set upon like a wildebeest by crocodiles. Every so often you have to take a telling.

My experience is mostly with Millennials, and perhaps the latest demographic might have it worse.

But the millennials where I was came in thinking that anyone around their parents age was there to support them. They would go around barking orders to much more senior people. I watched them sort of freak out when they discovered the old dude was much more knowledgable than them.

We had things like the young lady who started playing manager with me - one of the things I did was take overload from the illustrators. She was assigning work to me. I found out she was spending the time on Facebook - back before old people took over FB.

A woman who took over 6 months time off in one year to travel, and mental health days.

A guy who started yelling at me because I pointed at his laptop screen. "Don't you EVER, EVER touch my computer!" Told him I didn't touch it. "I said DONT!" I sent him packing

The guy who ignored my phone calls, then told me he only does text messages. I told him he would answer my phone calls, or I would visit him personally, along with the Director. You don't come in and dictate the rules on your first hire.

Interesting, two of the best employees I ever worked with were millennials, They left too, but not for job problems. One wanted to get an MBA, but the Dean insisted she be full time, so she moved back with her family in a city where she could work and pursue her degree. The other was offered a masters to Doctorates free ride at another university. Point is, the basic rules haven't changed. Start your new first career job, have some humility, do really good work, and move up the ladder at a pace the ladder allows. Save money, invest wisely, live within your means, and you'll hit your goals in a more realistic time than "immediately". I didn't become so called "wealthy" until I was in my late 40's, and yes, wealth begets wealth.

I didn't make the rules.

If I were to hazard a guess, I'll note that in my place of employment for the past 30 plus years, there were groups like HR that would employ some of the more esoteric Liberal art majors, degreed people.

Today, there are perhaps more candidates than positions, and yes, some majors are considered a bit toxic.

We have created this problem by making available loans that allowed people who perhaps didn't have much business being in college to spend 4 years or more of their life living and going to school and having "the college experience", then, to borrow a phrase, having the "Surprised Pikachu Face" when reality hit that they were going to have to obtain employment and actually pay off that loan. Some have debts amounting to a modest house's value.

In reality, there is a difference between degrees that have gainful employment prospects, and those that do not. As well, I'm a little suspicious of the monovariant analysis that has been quite popular regarding employment renumeration, especially when dealing with large groups.

I thought of that, but I dump cookies on exit. So unless they've found a new place to sneak them onto my machine, that probably isn't it.

Then they are happy, and I am happy for them - they have found their solution. Ten again - If you as a business have zero options. than A Microsoft product, if the very success is predicated on Office 365, without which it all falls apart - you've created a monoculture.

There are two parts to this Culture and education. No doubt I'll anger some people, but here we go.

Colleges played an integral part in the incredible lack of connection he decries.

Because right now, they are pretty darn toxic.

He speaks of a "Loneliness epidemic". It certainly is true, there is one. But that atmosphere that has been created doesn't help a bit. As the female to male ratio has been increasing, there are less men available, and the ease with which a man can be destroyed plays some part in young college age males avoiding relationships.

I get Cleary reports as required by law. I get maybe one a year now. That colleges have been an unqualified success in reducing sexcrime, real or interpreted is beyond argument. They have also caused many young men to avoid young women completely as a protective mechanism.

And many of these young ladies understandably hate the results.

Whereas once upon a time, you would see many men and women in obvious relationships or just friends around the campus, today maybe 10 percent of the people I see are interacting with the opposite sex. Guys hanging out together, gals the same. So many more woman than men, and the males don't seem to be affected much by the situation. No question that this is not a good situation.

Can this change? It will require a huge culture shift. I do note that a lot of women are changing their approach. In the past year, I've seen a lot of women have lost the "College scowl" that was so popular since around 2005. More women actually smile and speak to me without prompting, and without the "whatever" attitude. I believe that the loneliness epidemic affects women more than men.

Point is, the College culture has to change - a lot. And those who created the present culture are going to resist, mightily.

Now Education

Sure - education for many of these kids was a colossal waste of money. Loans that they lived on before getting a worthless degree, graduating in big debt and finding out they have less employment opportunities than the guy who quit high school in 10th grade. They might have had fun living their best life and having that sweet College Experience, but really - didn't they check on the post graduation employment prospects?

Meanwhile those in majors that had good employment prospects have been able to secure jobs that pay well, and have paid down their loans.

We really do need a lot of revamping of academia. But it's going to take a miracle to change the present culture, which is the polar opposite of Genuine human community, but rather a deconstruction of human community. I suspect it will have to completely fall apart, then rebuilt with a more even handed paradigm.

Maybe it is just synchronicity, or maybe these mega corporations like Google and Faceplant share way too much of our data.

I was using tent heater reviews on Youtube, lo and behold, the very brand I was gravitating towards on YT, shows up in my FB feed. Other times, similar things happen.

I don't consider it a huge invasion of privacy, but the creepy level goes up to 11 that I'd much rather not have. I hate to see how much of that happens with a computer that isn't battened down hard.

I've run along for years using one or the other Open Office applications. Right now, I'm using Libre Office and their spreadsheet app. It's ahem... better. It will open documents 365 won't, and it is cross platform compatible.

If people want to spend money on something they can get for free - you know what they say about fools and their money.

True, dat. Drama lovers maybe? The Reddit model completely sucks. mods there have their little fiefdoms, utter one "wrong" word and you are gone or berated. Or stray from the topic a little, as normal people having normal conversations do, and you get hammered.

In here, yes, we are at the mercy of the mods as far as levels, I've posted factual things and ended up at -1 troll. But who gives a rats ass? Nothing has been deleted or blocked. Slashdot has a system that works, doesn't discard unpopular posts, yet allows people to avoid those posts if they like.

Some have tried to call this censorship. It is far from it.