Gotta retroactively fix last quarters numbers if you want to cook this quarters. Otherwise pretty soon you'll be reporting 120% employment.
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.
George Orwell, 1984