Jul 20, 2009

Fuzzy Math

Maybe I'm missing something. I've misplaced my abacus and just can't seem to get these figures to add up:

Back in July, 2008, the Oakland Business Review reported: "The company has 350 employees, 275 of which are in Michigan."

Meanwhile, Crain's Detroit on July 13, 2009 reports: "The company has trimmed about 50 staffers since last summer" and "The company now has 275 employees."

The math there between the two reports just doesn't add up to me. Meanwhile, I've read of a total of 55 firings. I'm not sure about the churn rate of the company (which used to be incredibly low). I guess that the error can come from the loose phrase "last summer."

Mar 6, 2009
A 400+ Person Company?

Jul 20, 2009

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

WHAT HORSESHIT!

This company has NEVER had 400+ people and it has lost at LEAST 100 people since last summer.

If the company has any where near 275 people now, I'm elvis.

Anonymous said...

With outsourcers it probably did. Count everybody that was doing work for the company at one time, elvis.

Anonymous said...

I work here and don't think the numbers are wrong. There have been layoffs, but also hires along the way. Someone new started today, for example. Also, these are probably rounded numbers. In the end, who cares? There are somewhere around 275+/- people today.

Anonymous said...

So... 15% off on the employee count numbers? Yeah that's a bit of a big number... they're not rounding, they're fudging. Something you don't discern when you are drinking the cool-aid.

Anonymous said...

heard on the news today that Michigan is out of MEGA tax credits for job creation -- is that what eprize has? Wonder how they're keeping up their end of the job creation bargain. Oh wait, they're not.

Anonymous said...

Pretty much totally off-topic, but ePrize now has a small "ad" on the eprize.com splash page for a white paper by Ivan Frank called 'Improving Customer Loyalty Starts with Setting Your Prioities'. I would submit it should start with a decent spell checker. Lol.

Anonymous said...

HILARIOUS!

Anonymous said...

Ha ha ha. Way to go, QA. Oh wait, there's probably no one left in QA. While we're at it, the wording of that Coke promo is weird and missing a question mark. Ha.

Anonymous said...

We ERRRR They actually hired a lady to be a spellchecker, in some capacity. I'm not sure if she's been since laid off, because she worked from home. They outsource whatever important, "skilled" work they can to the lowest bidder, but bring someone in-house to do what Microsoft Word or, at the very least, a copywriter should be doing? No wonder we don't get free pop any more! SRSLY

Anonymous said...

I always thought that Ivan was one of the more useless folks in the organization. His idea/word ratio is skewed the wrong direction. He would talk and talk and nothing really new was coming out of his mouth other than the latest marketing buzz words he had picked up from his reading; "blah blah blah MOBILE, blah blah blah, SOCIAL NETWORKING, blah blah blah, SET YOUR PRIOITIES"

Franks N Beans said...

Yeah, Ivan one of those guys where you'd look at him and immediately thing, "Whose cousin are you? Why are you still here?" He was a waste of space.

Anonymous said...

Reading the ePrize blog,
"My Coke Rewards has fixed up their place and made it even to reward yourself with lots of little ways to smile...."
Wow, ANOTHER miss! On top of the omission, the remainder of the intro reads as if a High School senior, bleary eyed on the morning after prom wrote it out of some grudging obligation.

IE6 Rocks! said...

>>and made it even to reward << WTF? I don't even think Alesya O'Pelt could have written anything that bad. Can you give a brother the word "easier"?