Reply #34: This also includes time to login and get the time-entry software up and running. [View All]

[ieoeja]

These companies don't have a bunch of managers standing over the employees making certain their computers are booted up before letting them clock in somewhere. They are using a time-entry software. When they start working on a task, they click the appropriate task. The software then keeps track of the time until they click on the next task.

So they have to boot it up, sign in, and wait for all the startup jobs to run before they can start the time-entry software.

It takes my computer a couple minutes to get to the login screen. It takes about five minutes to finish running the login scripts. It takes another five minutes before all the startup jobs free up enough resources for me to fire up the time-entry software. And that can take a minute or two as well if everyone is logging into the database at the same time. Usually not, though.

There is security. There is software that checks to see what versions of everything is installed and updates if necessary. There is more security. There is software that makes certain I don't have any unlicensed software. There is more security. I couldn't tell you half the crap that runs on my PC at work. And the software we design frequently ceases to work as they are continually upgrading security that knocks us out of the water. In many instances we have taken steps backward as security has forced us to de-automate previously fully automated processes.