Re: Great New Movie

[bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)]

In article <C84Eop.D4p@well.sf.ca.us> joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:
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>Coming soon...the blockbuster movie of the year...
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>                      'THE COMPUTER DE-EVOLUTION'
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>- Find out what happens when teenage nerds learn that computers are not
>  reality. The horror, the horror.

Some find reality, others go to work for the phone company. I used to
work on the line crew for GTE. Some 'genius' decided to use the computer
system to measure and improve productivity. We had to fill out sheets
each day detailing everything we did. Each activity had an opcode. You've
never lived till you see 50 year old line bosses filling out pasopc code
sheets that look like source codes. Since each crew filled out it's own
sheets we were telling them how productive we were. One of the guys in
a suit said (in a straight face, he really believed this) that the company
could now crack down on people taking 45 minute breaks because we would
be putting in 3 break opcodes when we did. 
The net result was that due to the paper work involved our productivity
dropped by at least 20%. No kidding. Our crew bosses would stop an hour
short each day to figure out the paperwork. The rest of us would sit in
MacDonalds drinking coffee. Our supervisors, who used to come out on the
job unannounced and check up on us were swamped with having to enter all
of the data. We never saw them again except at the monthly meetings when
they tried to improve our efficiency in filling in the forms. Since the
people who filtered the results back to the owners were the same geniuses
who dreamt this mess up the drops in productivity were blamed on poor
employee moral, which they tried to improve through forced overtime and
layoffs.
 
Geee, no GTE

Bob Church