Excel chimp: crunching numbers, counting beans

Back in the office after training. Today's title is a memorable quote from one of the partners running the course. Makes you think, d...

So I'm on shore leave for the time being, and spent today at a jolly corporate training facility (whose meeting rooms are named after ir...

The Apprentice is back tomorrow – check out this year’s crop of unpleasant obnoxious over-achievers, who still don’t get the basic premise...

Apparently a quiet news day for the Daily Telegraph today. Having a delightful (and forever chaste) daughter myself, I shouldn’t be writing ...

Thanks to the late, great Anglo-Yank Alastair Cooke for today's blog title - an uncannily accurate description of beancounting towers, ...

An Excel Chimp budget day scoop - insider knowledge of GB's final budget!

So I was on the train home last night accompanied by the usual collection of South African accountants heading to Wimbledon and corporate br...

Finally signed off regional project on Friday, although not without a couple of calls in the middle of the night. Now facing the ghastly pr...

Here again in the spooky cold office with no-one else around and the lights going out every five minutes requiring a ridiculous dance which...

So, it's approaching 4am, and I'm engrossed in part 8 of 'Deutsche Plus' on the BBC Learning Zone. So just who the f*ck sit...

Overheard in a large all parties meeting: "I don't think we're getting into struggling territory here - it's not as if some...

Having had a rather longer-than-planned meeting with Messrs Pouilly-Fume (a niche player in the beverage space) yesterday evening, I’m not f...

Made it to the end of the week. Only 80 hours of work after all that - don't know what the fuss is about. A very good picture on the BB...

Wonder if the Lotus Notes chick only has half a face. Another night deep in Excel, although I'm in the comfort of home, watching a rand...

I'm lurking in a Secret Squirrel (NB 1970s cartoon reference again) Project Room on the floor of my office where our IT Support team is ...

Another day, another semi- Lionel - four in less than a week. My junior assistant is now really taking the piss about how old I am, and how...

Ever seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ? I only ask because the junior Excel chimp currently assigned to receive muddled and infrequent orders ...

Just finished work for the day - my iPod served up the Nik Kershaw classic 'I won't let the sun go down on me' (his only classi...

Blog silence for a few days - I'm clinging to the icy black run that is an imminent reporting deadline. May still plunge into a crevasse...

Overheard on the bus this morning: Tooting undergraduate 1: When I graduate I'm gonna become a social worker, innit Tooting undergraduat...

...another opportunity to (use) excel. On a lengthy conference call back in the regions - GNER redeemed themselves by managing to run a tra...

Back in London, thank the almighty, but not without regional problems - having spent five hours taking me back to the North on Thursday (in...

Walked past the 'Queen's Delivery Entrance' sign this morning (which will allow the regional readers out there to identify where...