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I quickly found out why so little had been invested in developing my Excel-craft. Analytical skills were overrated, for the simple reason that clients usually didn’t know why they had hired us. They sent us vague requests for proposal, we returned vague case proposals, and by the time we were hired, no one was the wiser as to why exactly we were there.
Und dann noch:Most of my day was spent thinking up and writing PowerPoint slides. Sometimes, I didn’t even need to write them — we had a service in India that could put together pretty good copy if you provided them with a sketch and some instructions.
Wie geil ist das denn! Die haben sogar Powerpoint-Buillshitbingo nach Indien outgesourced! HAHAHAHADie spannende Erkenntnis aus dem Artikel ist, dass Burn-Out nicht nur durch zuviel Arbeit kommt, sondern auch durch Arbeit, für die man unmotiviert ist, die aber ansonsten total einfach ist. Einleuchtend, wenn man schon mal in der Situation war. Für die anderen unter euch vielleicht eine neue Einsicht.
Und auch ansonsten erklärt der Artikel prima, wie es zu Katastrophen wie den üblichen IT-Großprojekten der Bundesregierung kommt:
In one case, the question I was tasked with solving had a clear and unambiguous answer: By my estimate, the client’s plan of action had a net present discounted value of negative one billion dollars. Even after accounting for some degree of error in my reckoning, I could still be sure that theirs was a losing proposition. But the client did not want analysis that contradicted their own, and my manager told me plainly that it was not our place to question what the client wanted.
Da bleibt kein Auge trocken!