Our company moved to Google Workspace two years ago and its been great. Most of our staff still have and use Office 365 subscriptions which the company pays for but if Microsoft drops support for Office 365 on Windows 10 systems, then I can see where all of our staff will simply move over to Google Docs and Sheets instead of Word and Excel. I think MS will really be shooting itself in the foot with this because Windows 11 is unpopular.

The accounting course I took in high school and the handful of accounting courses that I took in university were some of the most useful material that I ever studied. Even after more than 30 years, the knowledge of how to read accounting transactions and financial statements is invaluable and its served me well with running a business and with my own investment activities. That said, I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would go down the CPA path these days as the pay while articling is terrible, there seems to be a large outsourcing of labor to foreign countries with lower costs (e.g. India), and many accounting systems have now moved online (no more standalone installs) with web-based interfaces and whatnot. Seems like a loser of a career going forward with a race to the bottom for income unless you're a partner or senior executive at a big firm (and most are not).

On Reddit, I would upvote this! Man, best comment I've seen in years on this site!

Okay, you had me at "disabled". What could you have possibly done? Did you express admiration for OneDrive?

I'm in my mid to late 40's now with a pretty good career. And I've been in the position of hiring today's grads upon occasion. Some are really, really smart. Most, IMHO, not so much. Sure, their abilities to do Powerpoint, make pretty Word docs and even crunch a few spreadsheets are okay in an academic sense. But, holy crap, I need a business sense. And more than a business sense: an ability to go and talk to a customer, build a business relationship, establish trust and do business! I don't need another dumbass talking about "social media" and "blah blah blah" that doesn't connect with the large majority of down-in-the-trenches-small-business-owners.

When I was in high school, most of the seniors worked part-time. Hell, before they even graduated or went to college or university, they already had more raw work experience than over 95% of today's grads. Today's high school grads (at least in Ontario) can't even drive a fucking car by themselves. Add that together with globalization (the fucking of the middle class), the destruction of the traditional retirement age of 65 (selfish prick babyboomers) and you're got a perfect storm of screwing today's generation. It isn't that there is no jobs available, it's that they are already taken and many of today's grads don't have the work experience that gives employer's any confidence.

It's fucking depressing when you think about it. Sure, I'm ranting a bit. I've got four young kids and I'm really concerned with what I see out there today. The politicians today are complete morons and out of touch with reality. Today's politicians are becoming "institutionalized" where you're now seeing dumb-ass dynasties occurring with people who have no sense of what's really going on.

It's very clear that this is a mission-critical application need.

I recommend a clustered Oracle database with no less than four 8-core Wintel servers having at least 1 TB of RAM on each system along with 2 TB hard drives with a RAID 5 cluster and heartbeat connection between each pair of servers. Since we all know that California is a goner when the big one hits, you clearly need a RT (real-time, for you noobs!) connection with the same configuration located on the other side of the country. In fact, if you're a multi-national then its advisable to take a tax writeoff and host yet another same configuration in fscking Ireland too!

If that doesn't get you a renewable annual budget and a job-for-life then you need to become a manager and outsource the whole fscking thing to India where they'll do the work for minimum wage (what's that, $0.10/hour?) and you can manage it locally and report to the Board each year of all the hard work that you do.

Or just use a sqlite database with a small front-end configuration and Bob's your Uncle.

Upgrade? Sounds like a downgrade to me.
Seriously, what's the benefit to upgrade to a downgraded OS? Sounds like XP to Vista all over again.

Anyone in Canada could have told you that the US is an oligarchy. This is exactly what we've seen since at least the Reagan administration. The US is *NOT* a democracy - sorry to burst your bubble but it's the truth. The US has the appearance of a democracy but it is absolutely *NOT* a democracy.

- A Canadian

Hahaha!! Now that one deserves to be modded up!!!

They can't find a pattern because they're doing their calculations using base 10. They should expand their minds and try using another base, perhaps 2. I bet there's a pattern using binary!!

...and after being a fan and user of almost EVERY single Blizzard game since WarCraft I, I have now just dropped Blizzard and will not be purchasing SC2. Some of us actually want to use what we pay for by ourselves. And fuck having to connect to the 'net to use it.

-a pissed off very long time customer who just washed his hands of you.

...it's just that Microsoft's initial implementation was poor IMHO. The whole concept is great. At my work, we have available a tremendous amount of online training through a combination of video and PDF, etc. The thing is that what Microsoft didn't study, or perhaps did but didn't understand is that since childhood, kids are raised to see cartoon charactors as, for the most part, a little retarded. So anyone seen using a cartoon charactor to teach them concepts and usage of a software program will be seen as being retarded.

I bet that if they had done a proper, professional, and serious implentation, that it might have gone better for them.

FOIL. How could I forget. I just recently finished what you are trying to do. I needed to take QBA, but I hadn't done real algebra in around 15 years. the problem I see with most of the posts, is that you said you struggled, yet they are directing you to university texts. And like the math teacher says, they do things for different reasons at the high school level. So it depends on what you need. Another thing is that if you have been out of school for a while, the curriculum at the K-12 is nothing like you remember. Intro to algebra is done at the 5th and 6th level sometimes. If you know any middle/high school kids, ask them to for copies of some of their worksheets. The math tutor is also a good idea, because they will be able to customize to your needs.

But here's what I really did: I went to a book store and picked up the kind of thin workbooks you pick up for kids. They have the grade levels right on them. I actually started with grades 4, 5 and 6. Yes, you should breeze through these. I did have to practice on some areas with grades 9-12. There are dozens to choose from so pick the ones that look like they are leaning toward what you need.

The focus I think is making sure the foundation is solid before going on. There are so many 'teach yourself math' books it is crazy. One little one I really like was called 'No Fear Algebra'. It's just a tiny thing with straightforward exercises. I wish they had them for other areas. There are a couple of typos in it though that drove me crazy! Good luck! I think I will brush up at least once a year now, so that never happens again.

What you need to do is contact some other F150 companies and ask their senior IT admins/CTOs how they measure productivity. I work for a major investment firm and we have metrics for everything we do (even though we're private) because of two primary reasons:
1. its how you improve, and
2. its what our competitors do too.

Its that simple.