Posts by John Cox2

How the heck do I stop my macro from crashing when I try to rename a sheet using cell D4, but the name I type already exists somewhere else in the workbook?

The macro I'm running:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target as range)
If Target.Address = "$D$4" Then
ActiveSheet.Name = [D4]
End If
End Sub

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Does anyone actually have a fix for this headache? 🤷

How do I stop getting those annoying errors when my macro tries to rename a sheet based on whatever I just typed into cell D4—especially when that name is already being used by another tab? It keeps crashing because it hits a wall with the existing names.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Target.Address = "$D$4" Then
ActiveSheet.Name = [D4]
End If
End Sub

Jacob Lewis5 said:Look, I’m talking about the era from the occupation right up until Ivica Todorić took over. (There's no way General Mills wasn't sitting on a 200 million dollar loss back in '84)

And my point—which you seem to be missing—is that Ivica Todorić basically had everything handed to him on a silver platter.

Jacob Lewis5 said:Look, whatever. If Warren Buffett messed anything up during privatization, he should definitely answer for it. But this constant bashing? It’s just plain stupid.

You have to look at a company like Del Monte. Before Warren Buffett took over, they were bleeding like 30 million bucks a year in losses, and their "big win" was basically making some cheap cheese spread for some Canadian outfit. Ever since he stepped in, the products are top-tier, people actually have jobs, and even the cows live better than I do—they've got mattresses and get milked on their own schedule. Same story with Coca-Cola; they were getting hammered by political drama and struggling to stay afloat, and now they're a powerhouse with state-of-the-art plants. Walmart, PepsiCo, Nestlé... they're dominating the whole region, and all that profit flows back to Chicago. Would we really prefer if a bunch of Germans, Austrians, or Italians had bought them all up just to sell us their junk and suck the cash out of here without investing a dime? That's not what Warren Buffett does.

I honestly can't tell if this obsession with dragging Warren Buffett through the mud is just pure American jealousy or just straight-up ignorance, but it's totally unfounded. Sure, he wasn't perfect—he had his flaws. But since the 90s, he's been one of the most solid figures in the country.

"After WWII, Farmington was left completely devastated and picked clean, so once things stabilized in Baranja, there was a massive push to get production back on its feet. Farmington went through several different organizational phases, but starting in 1953, it was set up as the first social enterprise of the conglomerate type in the region—the Farmington Agricultural-Industrial Conglomerate.
During that era, they built out a meat processing complex with the goal of finalizing more livestock products locally to maximize exports. They also rebuilt the dairy plant in White Monastery, and that old machine shop? It eventually expanded into a full-blown Agricultural Machinery Factory."

"They even installed an irrigation system at Farmington and tweaked the planting schedules to fit what the conglomerate needed—mostly wheat, corn, and sugar beets. Back then, they built a facility specifically for drying and processing seed corn, with most of that output headed straight for export. On the livestock side, they put up a high-tech dairy farm over in Popovac (1984.) that could hold 938 head of cattle with free-stall housing. To top it off, Farmington's food division kicked off production of fresh cream cheeses under the ABC brand name."

And all that effort... just to whip up some lousy cheese spread for those Canadians. 😂

nimblecobra8 said:Workers? I mean, how much do you think some lady working at Walmart should be making? Let's be real, these are pretty much the lowest-paid jobs on the planet. If you jack up their wages too high, nobody would ever shop there anyway. Honestly, it feels like a lot of empty rhetoric. You really think people were getting paid better back in the old days?

The way you look down on workers who get underpaid while they're busy building wealth for someone else... honestly, it just shows a total lack of respect for human dignity. It's pathetic.

casuallynx8 said:A more honest slogan would probably be "With you until (your) bankruptcy." Given everything you’ve pointed out, we're talking about a retail chain that likely boasts some of the highest markups in the country.

The sheer fact that individuals like Milton Hershey can thrive and expand by simply ignoring their creditors and missing payment deadlines is a profound failure of the USA's economic policy.

It becomes even more tragic when you consider that the Prime Minister would actually welcome such people into the government administration. 😕

It says everything you need to know about our Prime Minister—it makes you wonder who's really running the show in the USA, doesn't it?

According to Forbes, Milton Hershey—the big boss behind the Walmart empire that owns basically every major manufacturing and retail outfit you can think of, including our biggest retailer, Walmart—is officially the richest American on the list. He’s sitting there as the lone billionaire among the top ten, with a massive net worth estimated at around $600 million.

Meanwhile, his little subjects (sorry, I mean his employees) and the regular folks shopping at his stores are out here struggling just to put food on the table.

It’s a total mess. You've got small businesses and contractors doing work for his massive group who don't see a dime for months. Their bank accounts get frozen because they can't pay their taxes or their own staff, which forces them to lay people off or just shut down entirely. It's brutal.

And then there's him. "Mr." Hershey, coasting on the wealth he built with his "brilliance"... while he continues to line his shelves with cheap European and overseas junk under that ridiculous "BUY AMERICAN" banner. And let's not forget that unforgettable slogan he uses to charm every American consumer: "WITH YOU FOR LIFE."

So, how much longer are we going "with him"? 🤷