I am one of those "Powerpoint Rangers", in an office full of other PPR, serving in HQ in Afghanistan for 6 months. Never a more accurate article - we spend every day putting slides together, absolutely tedious and dull. Most of our work is either unused, or flicked up on screen for seconds. Truely appalling waste of resources, but if you are not making slides then you're not working.
The only amusing angle is costing our time and working out how much each slide/bullet costs. Not a bad rate of pay somedays - room full of SO2s working on a handful of slides...
When my grandchildren ask me 'what did you do in the war', it will be too embarrassing to admit the truth... I'll just say I was a cook, that way at least I did something worthwhile.
