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Who Plays the 'Blame the Tech' Game?
An anonymous reader asks: "I work for a marketing services company, and it is my department's role to develop and maintain reporting systems for all the data we collect. When a department manager sees a dip (or rise) in one of there KPI's the first thing they do is ask me to 'check out the reporting', because '[they] think there is a problem'? It's this just the culture of my company or have other readers experienced a 'blame the technology first, ask questions later mentality'?"
Get somone to sign off and its they're problem, not yours.
And whom do you blame spelling ("somone") and grammar ("they're problem") upon?
Friendly hints:
loose = adjective, meaning not connected
lose = verb, meaning to be lost
their = third person plural possessive
there = location
they're = contraction, meaning "they are"
its = possessive, "belonging to it"
it's = contraction, meaning "it is"
to = preposition
too = adverb, indicating excess
two = a number, the base of the binary system
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Yes, I know I'm missing the word "errors" before the word "upon".
And yes, I know I'm being a pedantic asshat, but those four classes of errors really tick me off.
Not to mention "definately" (hint, there's no "a" in definite").
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.