So my boss is bad at excel. Put simply she doesn’t know the difference between “rounding error” and “error made while rounding” and asked me to “fix it”
So I told her that sometimes it feels like she’s the kind of person who would walk into a Wendy’s and ask for a lawnmower. She said it shows lack of entrepreneurial creativity that I didn’t source a lawnmower for resale or develop a burger shaped like a lawnmower.
My reply was “if I were a Wendy’s employee and left my cashiers station to drive over to Home Depot, bought a lawn mower and came back to sell it, the customer would have already gone to Home Depot and I’d have been fired for abandoning the register. If a manager did that they’d be fired by the franchise owner. If a franchise owner did that they’d be fined by corporate for being off brand. Your idea only works if you have enough corporate influence to change a multinational restaurant corporation with shareholders into the world’s only combination fast food and lawn care store. It’s just unrealistic and demonstrates lack of perspective. Oh, and a lawnmower shaped burger is both not on the menu and not something a Wendy’s manager would be ok assigning someone to develop”
At this she admitted defeat and was more willing to listen as I demonstrated how rounding errors work.