"No, no! It's been rounded off to THREE decimal places when it's always been FOUR decimal places!"Well fuck me sideways! Not THREE decimal places! Shit! That's ONE WHOLE DECIMAL PLACE OUT!
Call me a cynic, but sometimes I really wonder just what exactly all this* achieves, and whether it's worth it.
I have some news and a few photos, but I'll post 'em when I get home. In the meantime, I'm going to do the maths to prove they in fact need five decimal places for whatever it is they're doing and kill some time arguing about it. Should be a bit of fun.
* "this" = the whole business thing
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"This" is a bastion of business work in where all employees try to outperform each other in the "attention to detail" stakes, which shows how fastidious* each one is and this is deserving of a promotion of some kind
* anal
Hahaha*
* = Kill me now.**
** = Nah, my current role is pretty cool, actually. I'm enjoying my time here - hence why I stayed on from before. It's just a couple of the others that seem to take things a little too seriously.
I have nothing but contempt for people who are so unnecessarily anal.
HAVE YOU NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR LIVES??
and breathe...
Tim, Welcome to government where nothing changes! I'd say prepare a ministerial briefing about this new 3/4 decimal place revelation and see what they decide.
All in all, It sounds like the people at your office are instegarting change, which involves thinking, whereas government employees are generally specialists in doing, and not thinking.
So get back to your Ninja card throwing practice (or whatever you do at your office to pass the time) and embrace the culture!
Hehe- if you REALLY want to screw 'em around, tell them to consider going back to fractions!
But what about common denominators, Carl? Won't somebody pleaaaaaaaase think of the denominator!
etc. etc.
And then, sit back and watch their brains explode.
Ne-wo: Hahahaha NeWo, what would I do without you? :-) And my card throwing is coming along nicely, thanks! I'll be injuring people with it in no time!
Chuffed: What a good idea! I actually did that, you know. Just then! I seriously proposed fractions to them. They sorta stared at me with a weird face for a few moments, then I couldn't keep a straight face any longer and burst out laughing. Dammit! I had them going too! hahahahahahaha.
UTMG: Agreed, with the key word there being "unecessarily". I was being anal today about troubleshooting a DSN issue, and in the end, I was right. My analness (I made that word up then) paid off and solved the problem. But yeah, I sometimes feel that ALL office life all over the world is one great big collective toss-off.
Hand out flak jackets and say: "You have three minutes" then walk away. See what happens.
These are the same people who insisted that a discrepancy of 10 cents out of many thousands be found, when it meant an entire team work long hours to reconcile it! I offered to pay it out of my own pocket… with interest! Take a guess what they said...
ok am i the only one here who appreciates the importance of the fourth decimal?
i mean, all decimals were created equal, and that fourth decimal has a right to be represented independently.
rev, the inconsistency has been noted and will be taken into account in your performance review. now carry on.
Yo Rev, i have added your email address to my forward list. I have received some beoodies of late that i thought might amuse your good self.
Rest assured, i don't forward ones where you make wishes or die if you don't send to 1000 people etc.
Artist Formerly Known as BT3: I think the emergency lights would come on for no apparent reason. It happened the just the other day, in fact.
ChiggidyBabbidy: "Sure. We'll take 10% out of your salary every week until it's corrected. :-)" - was that it?
Horny: Hahaha yeah. Performance reviews. Always the highlight of my financial year.
Chuffé: Thanks, I'm looking forward to it! I've stopped sending my TGIF mails for the moment. But we'll see. ;-)
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