Well, it's nice to be recognized

Wednesday was our department meeting and my division got nominated for an award! Which we didn't win, because of course we didn't, because we're entirely internal. The division that won is exactly the division I knew that would win, because they're always dealing with clients.

My boss said that one of the higher-ups had been hearing grumblings from our division about how they're not recognized as much and asked for ideas and feedback, and so I gave my feedback--there's nothing we can do, external praise from clients is always going to outweigh any internal "Say, [Division A]'s data was pretty useful in the latest project" thoughts, and what's more, the nature of our data work is that we don't have any big projects we can point to and be like "We have completed this milestone," it's all small work that takes max two weeks to do, it's just a dozen of those at a time and they constantly keep coming in. So we're at an insurmountable disadvantage.

It is what it is, but I saw the teams that were nominated I was like, "[Division C] is going to win" without hesitation and wouldn't you know it, I was right.