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(35,499 posts)But, you know, it has more teachers this year than last.
711 machines were removed. How many were installed. And be sure to weight them by "productivity". We also lost a half-dozen photocopiers. But each new photocopier produces more than each old photocopier, so capacity's actually increased. The opposite occur--I bring home more dollars this year than 3 years ago, but I've taken a pay cut.
Now, this photocopier roll-out was not done smoothly. Our copy room was DOA because nobody realized that the data lines were not installed. Oops. Local IT people didn't fully read the specs. Then a lot of us couldn't print because an obscure email sent that said, basically, "Set up your account for MysteryService3913" was ignored. And then the follow-up email that was from the principal but forwarded from his assistant that was forwarded from somebody in IT that was forwarded from some central office 'governing' official that was forwarded from some central-office IT secretary that was forwarded by some central-office IT official wasn't read. You'd scroll down many screens to get to what mattered. "You didn't set up your account. Your username is 93r48kdf and your password is 394782klkkdehjr2." But it didn't say for what--you had to connect the original sender of the mail about "MysteryService3913" to that mystery-message #39482. Like I said, not a smooth roll-out. More like a rough f**k-up at knife point
Similarly, I watched some tracked USPS mail go from the mid-West to Dallas (I live near Houston), to near-Houston, to another sorting center near Houston, back to Dallas, sit for a few days, head back to the second sorting center near Houston, back to the first sorting center, then to my local PO and my mailbox. It got 1100 miles to within 30 miles of me in 4 days, and took the next 3 weeks to get back to 30 miles from me. Local folk didn't fully read the specs. The new machines had a bigger footprint than the old machines, and mail outside the on-going mail-flow were fed in as volume permitted.