--- title: Good Etiquette | daily.dev description: A Daily WTF story about a programmer named Felicity who inherits a business-critical Excel spreadsheet full of VBA macros written in French. The code relies on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/good-etiquette-ew57ubeqs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Good Etiquette | daily.dev og:description: A Daily WTF story about a programmer named Felicity who inherits a business-critical Excel spreadsheet full of VBA macros written in French. The code relies on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/good-etiquette-ew57ubeqs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ew57UBeQs.png og:image:alt: Good Etiquette og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Good Etiquette **[The Daily WTF](https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Daily WTF story about a programmer named Felicity who inherits a business-critical Excel spreadsheet full of VBA macros written in French. The code relies on hardcoded IP addresses (causing breakage when the IP changed), references multiple Excel files on shared servers, and features convoluted flow control with Goto statements that jump between If/Else branches and while loops in ways that are nearly impossible to follow. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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