Wow,
I have ended my 3rd week back at work. To make this extra fun, I have a cold. All I want to do is lay around the house and sleep, but I have to get up every day and come to work. To do what? Not much.
Apparently the person who had my job before me made everyone think that pulling reports was a big deal. It's not really.
One of the managers has his reports doing a manual report. I'm to compile each sheet and then do a master sheet, showing the team optics/metrics. So I do this, keeping in mind that it's only as accurate as the spreadsheets I'm getting from the field. The manager sends me a scathing email the gist of which is: this isn't accurate. I call him, since I don't want anything snarky floating around, and explain that the numbers are computed from what I'm sent. I ask him for the hard numbers, and just put them in the blanks, rather than a formula. I fixed the issue in about ten minutes. So there.
This guy loves a report and it's all bullshit. Oh well, it makes the world go 'round and it's what I get paid for.
You really can lie with statistics.
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That's one of the things I learned in my probability and statistics class in college - there was a segment on HOW to lie.
I shake my head in wonder. The manager wanting this report rags on me for not having it accurate and there's no WAY for it to be accurate. My boss told me to blow him off. So I will!
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