Let me get my calculator....
My old company wanted to improve customer relations by employing someone to call up customers, asking them how they were getting on and if they needed further services. To this end they created a new job role and canvassed for applicants internally. Myself and a fellow colleague were the successful applicants. The company hadn't put a lot of thought into what they really wanted but one thing they did know was that they had a problem with not enough office space and since we only needed a mobile and a PC could we work from home? Fair enough. How many calls should we make we asked? Plucking a figure from the ether they said 3,000. It sounded impressive.

Walking out of the meeting I pulled my colleague aside and asked if they knew how many calls that was per working day. They didn't. It's just over 5 and a half.

Length? Did it for three and a half years before anyone did the arithmetic.
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 15:50, Reply)