I am up North. For quite the most pointless meeting. There's a dozen of us round the table (at quite a substantial combined hourly rate) watching a PowerPoint presentation on some proposed project milestones. And it's animated......it's got dissolves and flashing boxes and everything. And our annoyance at being dragged up to something which could have been handled by an email is dissolving (without the flashing boxes) into squirming embarrassment at the catastrophic tweeness of it all.
However, long train journeys are ideal for thinking - about how I can extract myself from the current problem
Option 1 is bluster - to declare my outrage at Finance for providing me with the wrong numbers for the last few months. But that won't fly - I imagine myself on the other side of the argument, eviscerating my feeble protest - I signed off on the plan; and if I'd been paying attention I should have seen the figures were wrong.
So, option 2 - gloss over the error, but get the numbers reforecast for H2. And it's not a bad plan, I've got some plausible reasons for why there should be a reduction. But, frankly it's beneath me. I'll take a few points off just to win the argument, but the rest of it, I'm inclined to swallow.
I may come to my senses tomorrow. But at the moment, I seriously considering.....actually doing some work
