A client I work with
asks us to run regular reports off a particular software system, then painstakingly transfer all the data into another software system unique to themselves (there's not really a reliable way to automate this so it has to be done manually), although the second system is in no way better than the original, commonly-used reporting system we used to run the original data. Still with me?

The client checks the data painstakingly by... comparing it with the data from the original system, which they also use, and actually prefer as it is generally more reliable.

There is therefore someone in my team, who is an intelligent, hard-working 22 year old who spent three years and several thousand pounds getting a degree from a top University, about 75% of whose job it is to transfer data from one system to another, in order to send it to a client who will check it and bollock them if it is wrong, despite the fact that they are actually using the original system anyway, because it's better.

We'd flag it to them, but then they'd probably stop paying for it and we'd have to lose him.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 14:26, 1 reply)

Cool story bro.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 14:45, closed)