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Taking the blame

As mentioned previously, there are certain aspects of my job that put me into ethical quandries. There are also parts of my job where I am reporting numbers, counts, tallys, etc. I am given specifications before I produce those counts.

I am only telling you this because I got blamed for producing 'wrong' numbers. I always say: "there are no such things as wrong numbers, it's just not what you wanted". Semantics.

Anyhow, there was this whole big stink about these numbers and my only defense was to say "those are the numbers I was told to produce". I went so far as to put the way I came up with the numbers on the bottom of each page of the report. When I produced a copy of what I did for the President of our company -- that's when it sunk in. Vindication! I love that feeling.

I'm as sorry as I can be about what happened. Apparently the numbers we reported got published and they weren't the numbers that the client wanted. Doesn't that sound better than 'wrong'? I also don't like saying "we fixed our reports". Instead, I like to say "we revised our reports". Fixing them sounds like they were broken before and I just don't like clients hearing that we gave them something that was broken. Again, semantics.

If you can't tell, I'm trying hard not to talk about work. I have no problem talking about the people I work with I just don't want to fall into that trap of discussing work matters and then somebody from the office finding this blog and getting me busted. I'm trying to stay as anonymous as possible. Plus, I just don't want to do it -- that would be boring.

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