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Subject:Re: Measuring Productivity From:Richard Lippincott <rlippinc -at- BEV -dot- ETN -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 9 Nov 1994 16:36:33 EST
Marilynne Smith told how she prepared "page counts" by guesstimating the stack
of paper.
>Was I wrong?
Yep.
>Did you ever have to count pages?
Yep. And after six months, I started to do it exactly the same way you did.
Nobody cared. (Well, one person -would- have, but I never got caught.)
The guesses were "close enough for government work" (hey, now that I think
about it, it -was- government work), and my productivity went up because I
wasn't spending time counting doggone pieces of paper.
It's not the right way, but sometimes it's what ya gotta do.
Rick Lippincott
Eaton Semiconductor
rlippinc -at- bev -dot- etn -dot- com
