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Quote from a co-worker, “Isn’t it awful when people find out you’re smart?”

As it turns out, yes, it is. Not that I am especially smart, I guess Im just unwilling to do things wrong, so I keep at them until they are right. To me, this is a given when dealing with the accounting aspect of my job. Numbers have very definitive rules, if the numbers are wrong, they’re wrong. There’s no ifs ands or butts about it. When numbers are wrong the proof stares you in the face. You just can’t hand over something that’s blatantly wrong, because if so, what’s the point in doing it at all?
An example: the engineering firm I work for has a few very large projects underway. A very important part of the Project Managers’ job is to keep track of where a project is at in terms of cost and budget. A very, very important part of my job is to keep certain Project Managers up-to-date with all of their costs and budgets for certain projects by way of hellish cost-tracking spreadsheets. It would seem obvious to anyone that this kind of thing needs to be very accurate; yet, I get tons of surprise and praise for my accuracy all the time. It makes me think, “Aren’t ALL of our cost tracking spreadsheets this accurate? Isn’t that REQUIRED?” I mean, why do it at all if they aren’t? Just let the Project Manager guess.
Anywho, so word of my accuracy gets out, and now EVERYONE wants EVERYTHING from me. Not really, I just like to exaggerate, but sometimes lately, I *dream* in spreadsheet form. It’s terrible.

Good times.