Right!  And in a perfect world, managers and execs would ask payroll clerks what
they need in order to do their jobs more effectively.  But all too often it
doesn't happen that way.

Wayne (a programmer/DBA who's often had to tell users they can't have what they
need, because someone higher up than either of us decided against it)




Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]> on 08/16/2000 10:20:47 AM

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Subject:  Re: [HP3000-L] More Powerful and Prettier



At 11:16 AM 08/16/00, Gary Sielaff wrote:
>This is what I was saying (or trying to say) in my original msg. about
>pretty not selling the 3k.  The payroll clerk who has to enter 250 plus
>time sheets every two weeks (right or wrong and I am not debating this)
>doesn't give a hoot about pretty or GUI or what ever you want to call
>it.  She just wants to get the time entered.
>Short on reteric(sp)
>Gary

It's true that users just want to get the job done.  But, payroll clerks
don't buy computers, managers and execs do.


Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
http://www.northtech.com