I hate my job more than a person should. Granted I am not shoveling cow dung or anything remotely disgusting, but I am still none the less repulsed every time I have to go into work. I went in today….on a Saturday…. to run some data, make some graphs, and finish up a presentation. When confronted once again with the moral dilemma of displaying “non-trustworthy” data, I have been told once again to “not stress out about it, make it quick and dirty, it doesn’t need to be perfect, these are just estimates.” Ok, for any other line of work I might buy that, but I think it has slipped everyone’s mind that reliable DATA is the reason people contract with us. They expect real numbers, they expect real results, they are not paying 100+ dollars an hour FOR FREAKIN ESTIMATES and a “quick and dirty process”!

I am at a loss. I don’t think I have produced anything real in the past year. I am so burned out that I don’t really know where to turn. I hate when I have to fudge numbers, or in the words of my employer, “massage the data”. I HATE MY JOB! I am not stressed out about if the work will get done, I am stressed out about how the work is getting done. UN-FREAKIN-ETHICAL. When did I become a morally upstanding citizen?

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