From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:
> I agree with you about it needing to be automated somehow, but all I was
> trying to say is that a complaint like that is a valid complaint.
>

It is a valid complaint but with the hoi polloi that's where it ends unless
it's disrupting so many workers that it's a company issue. However if it's
an "exec" who's doing the complaining then it becomes a
status/power/politics thing really fast.

It's a bit like ye olde "fancy top of the line PC on the CEO's desk
even though he doesn't know how to work a PC" mentality.

we had everything automated except for the scheduling & like I said
only a few execs used that & of them only a couple got on their high
chair about it.

Adam

> Geo.
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> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
> news:q8aaevkiiu91i6muub1dhtnsk23688bqn0{at}4ax.com...
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>>On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:27:57 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
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>>>I think a big wig complaining that employees would have to spend hours
>>>moving their appointments over to the new system is a valid complaint.
>>
>>No, that would have to be automated somehow, and done after hours.
>>That's how we did it when we moved data from Groupwise and Notes to
>>Exchange during our standardization project a few years ago.  The
>>moves were scheduled and occurred the night before a new PC was issued
>>to users at a site.
>>
>>Still, it is quite expensive to change systems.  In addition to almost
>>100  personnel at the project's peak, there were substantial training
>>costs involved.  Every one of our 12000 employees was required to
>>attend an hour-long training session while their new machine (with
>>software preinstalled) was being set up for them.  The training
>>focused on Outlook, which was new to us at the time.
>>
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