In the Black

The other day the program I am working had an all-hands meeting.  For those of you who don’t know, all-hand meetings are a time for all disciplines on the program to come together and have program information bestowed upon us from the top.  

While I could write a long post about all of the comedy I witnessed, smelling Queen Perfume from across the auditorium, and all flunkies galore I focus on one interesting slide that was presented to us.  

The slide showed a certain project making a profit.  I was a little surprised because of the fact the project was really underfunded and overstaffed, for a moment I almost felt pride for the project team.  But then I started looking at the numbers more closely.  The profit wasn’t a profit at all; instead it was showing not loosing as much as expected.  What great accounting.  That would be like me saying I was “up” during my last visit to Las Vegas because I only lost $300, but expected to loose $500. 

Because being in the black still means drowning in red, I throw rocks.