This site under reconstruction.
I’ve been fortunate enough that I can add some play into my work and still be accomplishing things. For instance, the early part of the week was discouraging as we got pressure to go manual in our reporting process. It was said that somebody in the field actually said, “Well, it worked the last week…
I think we are approaching the end of the budgeting project. This week we had a meeting with the lender/investor who may have been the prime instigator for this budget process. I didn’t know it, but the first time we went through the budget last November, they didn’t like the fact that we didn’t review…
And they are not lizards. Okay, I got a little surprise earlier in the week. I was giving the supervisors training on the automated report and one supervisor said one of her folks asked about doing the report manually. That person felt she loses the knowledge if the computer was doing it all for her….
There has been a couple of articles about certifications, as if it is a panacea for the skills gap. But just because someone is certified, does not mean that person will be able to solve problems or be able to creatively come up with solutions. I once worked at a refinery where a peer, who…
Last week I found out that somebody was backfilling for two other people and therefore, was running three reports. If I hadn’t automated the report, she wouldn’t have been able to do that. It’s pretty exciting to be able to cut down the time drastically, but it is also scary. Fewer people will be required…
Okay, I can’t let the day go by without referencing to the fact that today is PI day. There are some constants that appears in numerous situations and formulas and PI is one of them. I wish I had saved an article I read today where it mentioned an equation that held all of the…
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