[dugmartin]

    Me: Really? Is that really a business requirement? Any other requirements you need done?

I landed a graduate assistantship in 1992 as "the computer guy's assistant" at my school's physical plant. My first assignment was to generate a fixed format file with one phone number per line. The file was to range from 1-900-0000 to 1-900-999-9999 and was needed by the campus telephone system to block all premium rate calls. They asked me to do it because they got back a 30 day completion estimate from the central IT department after filling out an internal RFP form.

I'm sure somewhere, someone has been paid to write a program that prints 1 to 100.

[SatvikBeri]

I know people who spent at least 40 hours/month just updating dates in monthly/weekly excel reports.

Edit: and had 6 figure salaries.

[windsurfer]

This should be the definition of a modern society.

[gtd]

Yes, but if you fuck it up heads are gonna roll.

[protomyth]

I ended up doing the equivalent so many times I wrote a sequence command that had masks and could increment (count) through arbitrary series of characters (AVF => A, V, F, AA, AV, etc). Good for dataset fills.