In retrospect, when I became an Oracle Consultant at Deloitte, the name should have been a clue there'd be a lot of unscientific guessing about stuff.

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It’s what we do. Clients pay us, we guess for them, if we’re right they look great, if we’re wrong they blame us. They’re effectively paying us to take the pressure off of them guessing and to blame us.

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LMAO- stick with SAP

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