Talking of Excel
My sister works for a county council that shall remain nameless.

Her job is performance monitoring of her particular department. Her entire job consists of opening predesigned Crystal reports, running them, transferring the data to Excel and making pivot tables out of them. All day, every day. She gets paid a not inconsiderable sum of money for doing this, and has just been on a three day training course in Crystal. She doesn't even create the reports in Crystal, just runs them. I can't see how that needs three days of training even for someone as unskilled at computers as my sister.

Worst part: there are twelve people in her department doing the same job. Fuck I'm glad I don't work in the public sector, but I'm pretty pissed my taxes fund this incompetence. Thanks Margaret Blair for this lovely target driven culture...

Edit: you do something vaguely similar don't you Light?
(username1, Wed 6 May 2009, 10:02, Reply)