Best excuse for a drop in revenue

[DreamThrall]

I work for a marketing/advertising company where we track revenue by the hour. On Monday morning, a coworker of mine was looking through the reports and noticed that on that morning, there was ZERO revenue from 2-3 AM. He kinda started freaking out, because while revenue that early in the morning generally isn't that high, it shouldn't be ZERO. So anyways, he asks another guy about it and he looks at it a second and says...

The reason there wasn't any revenue between the hours of 2 and 3 AM was because that hour DIDN'T EXIST.

Thank you daylight savings...

 

[CyberPitz]

Rofl...I need to use that excuse from now on.

 

[lePobz]

It's always possible to have an hour of no turnover. Any manager that doesn't understand the laws of probability doesn't deserve to be a manager.

 

[DreamThrall]

Possible, yes, but not probable. There are so many other things that are more probable, like a server crashing or a DNS issue, or any number of other technical issues, which is why it was worrisome. Besides, it was FUNNY.

 

[Baal]

I work for a marketing/advertising company where we track revenue by the hour. On Monday morning, a coworker of mine was looking through the reports and noticed that on that morning, there was ZERO revenue from 2-3 AM. He kinda started freaking out, because while revenue that early in the morning generally isn't that high, it shouldn't be ZERO. So anyways, he asks another guy about it and he looks at it a second and says...

The reason there wasn't any revenue between the hours of 2 and 3 AM was because that hour DIDN'T EXIST.

Thank you daylight savings...

That made me chuckle, great story. Unfortunately I didn't see it coming.

 

[Dan]

if it is large enough company that the quantities of individual transaction are not noticable and the sales follow a normal distribution , then statistically speaking the revenue will never be exactly 0.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

damnit DST!