Paper free work places

[essayel]

This is the new thing for my employer and they send out emails almost weekly to remind us not to waste paper and ink in printing, or faxing, things that couls be sent electronically. I've been doing my bit by emailing spreadsheets instead of printing them. This means I've been using excel - not the best option I understand but one that solves the knotty problem of my numerical 'dyslexia' [i really do see numbers scrambled like eggs and have to concentrate HARD to deal with them]. The senior custodian has been grumbling about this for a while - apparently it 'isn't fair' to use a computer for this purpose because not all of the other custodians have access to a computer or would want to use one if they had. So I've come back and discovered that a new rule has been made at her request that ALL documents submitted to her office [and they are many] must be handwritten. This includes worksheets with 500 rows and 20 columns.
Now I'm wondering how long it will be before she bans pocket calculators!
I'd probably be jollier about it if I didn't have jetlag. As it is *snarl*

Comments

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

You are just as entitled to have a disability as computer-illiterates: use your spreadsheets and PRINT THEM OUT for the dummies. Claim disability if necessary. :D

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I have filled in the spread sheet, which has kindly done all the calculations for me, and am copying the answers by hand onto paper which I will snailmail to her when complete.

The way I look at it is, if I'm sitting quietly doing my own work by hand I can't be doing any of the other things I get asked to do 'if you have a minute'.

Sneaky, eh?

[yakalskovich]

I said so by IM but it bears repeating: what an INCREDIBLE Luddite!!

Better get an abacus.-

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I has an abacus. Can't remember how to use it, though.

[aunty_marion]

Start with a slide-rule and work your way up...

[yakalskovich]

Ahhhhh -- but you are allowed to use the intarwebs to learn how to use an abacus, do you?

She can't make sure that you have learned it from a leather-bound vellum manuscript...

[open-the-blinds.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just...wow.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I said something a bit like that - only with tf after the w.

[charss.livejournal.com]

Go to the next person up, use the words 'disability discrimination' when presenting your case and your problem will probably disappear.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Sadly my disability isn't official. Back in my youth if your numbers danced on the page it was because you were thick, not because you had anything multisyllabic. I was an adult before I realised what the hitch was.

What I can do is agree to do EXACTLY as asked, and drop the additional duties I've been able to take on as a result of saving time with Excel.

[britalone.livejournal.com]

Now I've used this advice before............... breathe. In thru the nose-out thru the mouth....in thru the nose-out thru the mouth. There, feeling better? ;o)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

*stops hyperventilating*

Um - yeah. Actually I do.

Thanks.

[aunty_marion]

Find some parchment and a quill pen, and when she asks you what you've been doing for umpty-ump hours, flick ink at her.

Stupid cow.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I can argue that since it's a museum seeing me doing the books medieval style is part of the 'experience' for the visitors.

And later we can all go watch a hanging.

I've been enjoying your adventures with chickens!

[aunty_marion]

Cluck! Sadly, I said goodbye to them this morning, and am now back home. However, I did bring with me an egg-box containing half a dozen teenytiny bantam eggses...

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Bantams! I had a pet bantam when I was little - a grey one. It's my ambition to have chooks again when we move from this town house into something with a bit more garden.

[aunty_marion]

You've seen the piccies, I take it? *g*

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Wow, fancy fluffy footed bantams! I hadn't actually. I've been travelling and have been a bit patchy with my LJ reading.

They are a lovely bunch of hens.