Ravings of a Textual Deviant

Logic Doesn’t Apply

This is deliberately vague, but I think the point still gets across.

I work for a consulting company, and we have a Service Level Agreement contract with A Client. Part of that contract says that we produce 95% of an Important Theoretical Number every month. Unfortunately, the formula used to calculate the Important Theoretical Number doesn’t precisely coincide with reality. So, in order to compensate for that, I have a column on one of my spreadsheets that is labeled “Difference between 95% and Reality.”

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2 Responses to “Logic Doesn’t Apply”

Alisa Says:
June 27th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
Y’know, that sounds a whole lot like Administrative Law….
John Says:
June 30th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Same could be said for the health services industry…the divergence between reality and the model is growing at an alarming pace…

Logic Doesn’t Apply

2 Responses to “Logic Doesn’t Apply”

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