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Because many people would rather believe that someone is in charge of natural disasters and suffering. Some take it further as a pretense for convincing their peers to remove competitors for resources.

I’m more of a van Gogh, misunderstood until after his time.

It varies with the server and how much work was done. If you explain it to the person it might go better. At some places the server gives a cut to other staff that help with the table. At cafes with a tip jar it is divided up at the end of the shift. The only certain rule is don’t tip with those fake half bills with a religious flyer on the other side.

An hour to six days is bad. There must be some kind of data ingestion and pipeline involved. Reading a database and generating a formatted xlsx file can be a few seconds to minutes.

An OpenXML library could modify and write to a new file without Excel. Microsoft’s version is usually for C#, there are similar libraries in other programming languages if your computer is locked down. If Excel gives a corrupted error when opening, the XML data can be viewed by renaming the xlsx extension to zip.

Merging Cells: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/documentformat.openxml.spreadsheet.mergecells?view=openxml-3.0.1

Cell style and background color: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44839512/how-to-work-with-style-index-in-open-xml