At a former workplace I hated Tuesdays.  I was the Sys-admin/operator and
had to separate 1-1/2 boxes of green bar every Tuesday morning and
distribute the reports.  One week I decided to keep all the reports and wait
for the calls.  I got 2.  Next I started deferring the reports that no-one
claimed.  Over the course of 2 months I had 4 inquiries about those reports.
I started archiving these reports and showed the end users how to retrieve
what they needed when they needed it.  By doing this I reduced that weekly
print process to 3 short reports and my time involved in separating and
delivering them to 5 minutes.

Some users would text in the spoolfile and copy/paste the info they needed
into a spreadsheet.  Originally they were getting the hardcopy and typing
the numbers into a spreadsheet.  What a waste of paper and time.  So this
cost saving could also be added into the above process.

What fond memories (ugh)  :(

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:40 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Operators [was: Console]


In a message dated 4/23/02 12:30:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:


> Of course we no longer deliver printouts, we have
> a policy that user's get their own.*  I'm constantly
> amazed by what "doesn't" get picked up.
>
>

A few years ago where we had a lot of month-end central printing, one of my
chores as a consultant was to help the operations guys develop a report
distribution list (Excel file).  We had a specific distribution location of
"Unknown" which the guys were working on eliminating by eliminating the
jobstreams that created the reports inthe first place.

Re: GYOP - there are a couple of problems with this - The "where's my
printout?  What did YOU do with it?"  and the how long to keep the unclaimed
paper problem.
In general, I like the idea though.  Especially with distributed printers so
people cannot finger point.

Wayne

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