How Convenient!

[Hungary Jack]

I'll start by saying that the place where I work is f'ed up. It's bassackwards in so many ways.

So last week I have one of our top analysts pull a bunch of data to examine our performance in a critical process area. It is a new way of looking at things that no one around here had ever thought of (it's not that exotic, it's just that people here are lazy thinkers). This analysis has the potential to reveal the "smoking gun" that my boss and I know exists, but cannot prove without proper data.

So I get the data and run my analysis. Sure enough, I find some very damning evidence. My boss and I develop a report that we plan to show to the President.

A few days later my analyst emails me to tell me that he screwed up the data extract and gave me garbage. Then he tells me that he is going away for 2 weeks on some sort of conference. This guy doesn't work for me. He works for our PoS IT vendor.

Methinks it is a setup so that the IT shop can buy some time to help cover their tracks. It's pathetic. If this place put as much energy into confronting its problems as it did trying to find ways to deny them, it might actually be good.

[mikechamp]

I'm thinking:

1) Conferences don't last 2 weeks.

2) You still have the information he provided, so that's not going to stop you from going to the president.

3) You'd be able to check some type of log to see who made modifications to your IT system.

4) Start doing some research on a new IT vendor and present that to the president as well.

[StatmanCrothers]

if anyone stands in the shadows of the parking garage and asks who else knows about this, don't say "just me".

[jeffbgoofy]

I see you work for the government too...

[Hungary Jack]

I see you work for the government too...

No, but it sure feels like it somedays.

[phins]

if anyone stands in the shadows of the parking garage and asks who else knows about this, don't say "just me".

Heck no, say EVERYONE! Then say it wasn't you who told them though.