Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
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Just got out of a meeting with my Manager and all my much younger colleagues. I have one bloke that has been in IT less than 2 years, prior to that he answered phones for a mobile phone provider near by. Nice bloke, I like him and actually pushed the barrow so the previous director would get him off Level 1, into Level 2 and out on to client sites. Prior to this, no one moved up, the company just bought a new person to put in where they needed someone. That Director has left and in his place I now have 3 layers of management between me and the owner when it was 1 before. The lowest level of manager loves this young bloke and I find everything is run past him even when he has no idea. Point in case, this morning new Very Seniuor bloke set to go to Canberra (yes the site I carried and rescued for 5 months when no one wouldd work there) was paraded to Gen Y wannabe. Senior bloke well into his fifties and working Senior IT longer than Gen Y has been alive. Gen Y asks if the new bloke has any VMware experience, before he would proceed with instructions on what to do. He then talks about female sheep and out Wikipedia. FFS moron, youse is not a word and we have an Internal Wiki, we do not have Wikipedia. So back to the meeting, we were given statistics on our performance over the past few weeks and the average number of cases (Client and Internal) we are working on per week, day and hour. Of course Golden Boy comes out on top (else different statistics would have been used), the fact that most of the cases he did are reviewed and passed on to other people to solve, where as most all of mine are actual work I have done to solve a client problem. When the Manager finishes gloating about Golden Boy, I quote the title of this post. The Manager (older than me, and I'm old) takes offence to this, I have to explain that this is an ancient saying that boils down to you can read statistics any way you want to get the result you want. Couldn't believe that as the daughter of an Australian Federal Politician she wouldn't have heard of it before. I work with and for morons.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Just got out of a meeting with my Manager and all my much younger colleagues. I have one bloke that has been in IT less than 2 years, prior to that he answered phones for a mobile phone provider near by. Nice bloke, I like him and actually pushed the barrow so the previous director would get him off Level 1, into Level 2 and out on to client sites. Prior to this, no one moved up, the company just bought a new person to put in where they needed someone. That Director has left and in his place I now have 3 layers of management between me and the owner when it was 1 before. The lowest level of manager loves this young bloke and I find everything is run past him even when he has no idea. Point in case, this morning new Very Seniuor bloke set to go to Canberra (yes the site I carried and rescued for 5 months when no one wouldd work there) was paraded to Gen Y wannabe. Senior bloke well into his fifties and working Senior IT longer than Gen Y has been alive. Gen Y asks if the new bloke has any VMware experience, before he would proceed with instructions on what to do. He then talks about female sheep and out Wikipedia. FFS moron, youse is not a word and we have an Internal Wiki, we do not have Wikipedia. So back to the meeting, we were given statistics on our performance over the past few weeks and the average number of cases (Client and Internal) we are working on per week, day and hour. Of course Golden Boy comes out on top (else different statistics would have been used), the fact that most of the cases he did are reviewed and passed on to other people to solve, where as most all of mine are actual work I have done to solve a client problem. When the Manager finishes gloating about Golden Boy, I quote the title of this post. The Manager (older than me, and I'm old) takes offence to this, I have to explain that this is an ancient saying that boils down to you can read statistics any way you want to get the result you want. Couldn't believe that as the daughter of an Australian Federal Politician she wouldn't have heard of it before. I work with and for morons.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
I work with and for morons.
A curse shared by many of us.
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Just got out of a meeting with my Manager and all my much younger colleagues. I have one bloke that has been in IT less than 2 years, prior to that he answered phones for a mobile phone provider near by. Nice bloke, I like him and actually pushed the barrow so the previous director would get him off Level 1, into Level 2 and out on to client sites. Prior to this, no one moved up, the company just bought a new person to put in where they needed someone. That Director has left and in his place I now have 3 layers of management between me and the owner when it was 1 before. The lowest level of manager loves this young bloke and I find everything is run past him even when he has no idea. Point in case, this morning new Very Seniuor bloke set to go to Canberra (yes the site I carried and rescued for 5 months when no one wouldd work there) was paraded to Gen Y wannabe. Senior bloke well into his fifties and working Senior IT longer than Gen Y has been alive. Gen Y asks if the new bloke has any VMware experience, before he would proceed with instructions on what to do. He then talks about female sheep and out Wikipedia. FFS moron, youse is not a word and we have an Internal Wiki, we do not have Wikipedia. So back to the meeting, we were given statistics on our performance over the past few weeks and the average number of cases (Client and Internal) we are working on per week, day and hour. Of course Golden Boy comes out on top (else different statistics would have been used), the fact that most of the cases he did are reviewed and passed on to other people to solve, where as most all of mine are actual work I have done to solve a client problem. When the Manager finishes gloating about Golden Boy, I quote the title of this post. The Manager (older than me, and I'm old) takes offence to this, I have to explain that this is an ancient saying that boils down to you can read statistics any way you want to get the result you want. Couldn't believe that as the daughter of an Australian Federal Politician she wouldn't have heard of it before. I work with and for morons.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Change is inevitable Mick, much better to be a part of it than work against it. If they want good stats, give them good stats. Crank out the easy tickets / cases as fast as you can and to hell with it. You could always buy the manager a sheep costume for xmas and tell gen-y man to have his youse in the store room
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Change is inevitable Mick, much better to be a part of it than work against it. If they want good stats, give them good stats. Crank out the easy tickets / cases as fast as you can and to hell with it. You could always buy the manager a sheep costume for xmas and tell gen-y man to have his youse in the store room
Josh Gray wrote:
You could always buy the manager a sheep costume for xmas and tell gen-y man to have his youse in the store room
I could be mistaken, but I think he bats for the other team, if you get my Seinfield reference.
Josh Gray wrote:
Change is inevitable Mick, much better to be a part of it than work against it. If they want good stats, give them good stats. Crank out the easy tickets / cases as fast as you can and to hell with it.
And where have you been over the past 24 years I have been in the work force. If I could do this I wouldn't be starting my career for about the fourth time. I cannot accept stupidity and slap it upside the head as hard and as often as I can. To my detriment I acknowledge and I am trying so hard this time not to drag each level of management in one at a time and kick the Mike Humt out of them. Seems to have worked a bit, the last 7 working days I have been biting my tongue so hard I have had to get the Missus to stick it back on each night with Gaffer Tape. After I stupid meeting I was informed I had been chosen to attend a 5 day HyperV training course at Microsoft starting next Monday. Also found out that Microsoft is about 3-4 minutes drive up the road on the left hand side. Don't think I have been there since attending a 3 day C++ programming course back in 1996.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Josh Gray wrote:
You could always buy the manager a sheep costume for xmas and tell gen-y man to have his youse in the store room
I could be mistaken, but I think he bats for the other team, if you get my Seinfield reference.
Josh Gray wrote:
Change is inevitable Mick, much better to be a part of it than work against it. If they want good stats, give them good stats. Crank out the easy tickets / cases as fast as you can and to hell with it.
And where have you been over the past 24 years I have been in the work force. If I could do this I wouldn't be starting my career for about the fourth time. I cannot accept stupidity and slap it upside the head as hard and as often as I can. To my detriment I acknowledge and I am trying so hard this time not to drag each level of management in one at a time and kick the Mike Humt out of them. Seems to have worked a bit, the last 7 working days I have been biting my tongue so hard I have had to get the Missus to stick it back on each night with Gaffer Tape. After I stupid meeting I was informed I had been chosen to attend a 5 day HyperV training course at Microsoft starting next Monday. Also found out that Microsoft is about 3-4 minutes drive up the road on the left hand side. Don't think I have been there since attending a 3 day C++ programming course back in 1996.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote:
the last 7 working days I have been biting my tongue so hard I have had to get the Missus to stick it back on each night with Gaffer Tape.
Well that's basically what I'm suggesting.
Josh Gray wrote:
Well that's basically what I'm suggesting.
I know. So when is our Graus inspired piss-up with nibblies occurring?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Josh Gray wrote:
You could always buy the manager a sheep costume for xmas and tell gen-y man to have his youse in the store room
I could be mistaken, but I think he bats for the other team, if you get my Seinfield reference.
Josh Gray wrote:
Change is inevitable Mick, much better to be a part of it than work against it. If they want good stats, give them good stats. Crank out the easy tickets / cases as fast as you can and to hell with it.
And where have you been over the past 24 years I have been in the work force. If I could do this I wouldn't be starting my career for about the fourth time. I cannot accept stupidity and slap it upside the head as hard and as often as I can. To my detriment I acknowledge and I am trying so hard this time not to drag each level of management in one at a time and kick the Mike Humt out of them. Seems to have worked a bit, the last 7 working days I have been biting my tongue so hard I have had to get the Missus to stick it back on each night with Gaffer Tape. After I stupid meeting I was informed I had been chosen to attend a 5 day HyperV training course at Microsoft starting next Monday. Also found out that Microsoft is about 3-4 minutes drive up the road on the left hand side. Don't think I have been there since attending a 3 day C++ programming course back in 1996.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
I cannot accept stupidity and slap it upside the head as hard and as often as I can. To my detriment I acknowledge and I am trying so hard this time not to drag each level of management in one at a time and kick the Mike Humt out of them.
I find that overt sarcasm often works in such cases. "Oh wow!, Golden Boy sure is marvelous - he managed to complete twice as many tickets as me this week! He's a genius!! Perhaps I can pass on some of my harder tickets to him as it's bound to be more efficient?" And start always referring to your wiki as 'Wikipedia' just waiting the time when someone corrects you - at which point you look astonished... "But GoldenBoy said.. . no.. he can't be wrong.. Oh My God - by beliefs are shattered! It's just not..." at which point you walk slowly and cretsfallenly away, shaking your head and muttering (a loud sniff and a wipe of the eyes too, I should imagine would add to the effect)
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Josh Gray wrote:
Well that's basically what I'm suggesting.
I know. So when is our Graus inspired piss-up with nibblies occurring?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote:
So when is our Graus inspired piss-up with nibblies occurring?
You'll have to give me a couple of weeks, my mrs is very sick at the moment and our house is going up for auction shortly. Sorry mate
Josh Gray wrote:
You'll have to give me a couple of weeks, my mrs is very sick at the moment and our house is going up for auction shortly. Sorry mate
No worries, Maunder's in the country as well, will have to get him and others to come along.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Just tell her that over 76% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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...and the other 25% are wrong.
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