Background: I work for a software company that makes statistical analysis software. This is used by many businesses to crunch numbers after gathering data from satisfaction surveys and such. A lot of financial decisions that some pretty big companies make is based on the reports that our software generates (based on this data).
What astonishes me is several things. How much of my job centers around helping people misrepresent data to their bosses, the on average native intelligence of the folks that are gathering and compiling the material on which multi-million dollar decisions will be made and finally how widespread this is
Ummm, is there supposed to be more to this post? It seems to end rather . . . abruptly.
Not really, just a mini-rant intended to spark discussion(although I notice that I forgot the period at the end of my sentence).
This sort of crap is rampant. In my company people will go through outrageous lengths to:
get money transferred to other divisions
get revenue transferred to their division
lower the stated costs for some service we’re selling
push money from one month to another
None of which does a DAMN thing to help our underlying financial situation, or make our products more competitive/profitable. I keep thinking, if they spent that kind of effort on lowering our REAL bills, we’d be swimming in profit.