""The IT manager was, to be blunt, an insufferable bore," he told On Call. To make matters worse, he had no people skills and clearly enjoyed bullying colleagues and underlings. Val wouldn't put up with it. "I was already too old and weathered to take that kind of treatment from anybody," he told On Call. One morning, Val's phone rang and he was soon conversing with this magnificent manager who needed help with an Excel spreadsheet - but insisted the request must be kept secret."
""As soon as I walked in, he started enthusiastically moving his mouse and said, 'Look! This spreadsheet isn't working!'" Val saw the problem right away. This IT manager was using a table in a Word document, not a spreadsheet in Excel. "I opened Excel, copied and pasted the data from the table into the spreadsheet, smiled, and left the office," he told On Call."
Val worked as a contractor for a housing association in the North West of England and refused to tolerate bullying from an insufferable IT manager. The manager lacked people skills and bullied colleagues. He secretly requested help with an Excel spreadsheet. Val discovered the data was in a Word table rather than an Excel sheet, copied and pasted the data into Excel, and left after fixing it. A few hours later the labor hire company terminated Val's services and offered six weeks' salary as a goodwill gesture. Val already had another contract lined up and questioned whether an IT manager should know the difference between Word and Excel.
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