In case anyone reads this that doesn’t already know me, let me introduce myself: I am a corporate stooge, stuck in cubicle land. Think Dilbert, without the glasses or tie.
The corporate world sometimes (usually?) makes absolutely no sense to me.
Today’s rant is brought to you by the almighty Quarter End Crunch™.
We have a project that has always been planned for the customer to come and approve our built equipment in early July with shipment in mid-July. However, some intelligent person with a spreadsheet full of metrics realizes that our quarter performance will look much better with the revenue recognized in the fiscal 2nd quarter, which ends in June. To recognize the revenue, we need to ship the product. Dilemma! Customer coming in July (and cannot come in June, we have already asked), factory wants to ship in June. Potential solutions?
- Screw the customer, the quarter is God,
- Screw the quarter, the customer is God,
- Ship the product around the block and have the customer accept the equipment in a van down by the river.
Can you guess which option the company has decided to pursue?
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