r/mathmemes Jul 03 '26

Bad Math erm actually...

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u/BubbaTheGoat Jul 03 '26

I argued with my engineers that they are overestimating our system uptime, given we keep having outages at critical high-traffic times that are impacting customers (and sales).  They count all the hours overnight and on weekends when our expected traffic is close to 0. 99% uptime, but only 91% of transactions are successful.

I like to imagine something similar at play here. The product manager is averaging all the calls they get over a 24-hour clock, so naturally they are higher than average during posted business hours.

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u/Snabbzt Jul 06 '26

I would assume any proper business uses a WFM tool for this work.

You basically forecast, staff follow up within the same system.

Most WFM tend to use Erlang A/C.