Data!
Firstly, it's poor quality. "Train fault." Secondly, it's incomplete. "Uncoded." Thirdly, no ways of sorting it will reliably give you anything useful whatsoever. Fourthly, it comes from other companies' systems so we have no control over it. Fifthly, nothing agrees with itself, not even two sheets within the same spreadsheet, and I cannot produce the graphs I am supposed to be replicating, from what appears to be the exact same data.
And nobody ever tells you the same thing.
*pulls hair out*
Aaaaaaaaaargh.
Someone please tell me that, somewhere in the world, someone actually knows what they're doing?
posted by skittledog @ 10:51 pm
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I'm sure that there are some people somewhere that know what they are doing. I don't think that they're in charge, though, so it doesn't matter.
Sorry, I live by the rule of guessing.
I could tell you people know what they are doing, I'd be lying, but I could say it.
Hmm. I have, myself, been known to occasionally know what I am doing. But it is a rare thing. Bluffing one's way through things often works remarkably well.
What was the questions again?
I know what I'm doing. Mostly. And I could supply you with all kinds of complicated spreadsheets to demonstrate it.
...Of course, large spreadsheets of accounts information for an Australian freight management & distribution company are probably not much use to you.
But at least they give me confidence that someone, somewhere, has useful data. I was beginning to doubt it.
I kind of hope that nuclear power stations aren't run like the rail industry. I kind of fear they might be.
Once upon a time, when I was young and naive, I believed that most companies were organised, well-run, kept accurate records and adhered to OHS procedure. My employer, I reasoned, must be the only company to run by lurching from disaster to chaos - it is such an inefficient way to run a company that it must be a complete fluke that these people are still supplying customers and paying staff.
I have since discovered just how wrong I was. I am now convinced that it is the rare organisation that operates in a manner befitting itself.
People are just as stupid no matter what they do or how many letters they have after their name.
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