Comments on: sick time woes

By: paperhurts

paperhurts — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:18:16 +0000

Oh training…I wish I didn’t say “if you have any other questions, please email me” because some people have a tenancy to send multiple emails…a few minutes apart…each email containing a separate question…and all of them stupid.

By: Whit W

Whit W — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:22:07 +0000

I feel your pain. I train teachers on new technology… SIMPLE technology most of the time and I just want to stab myself in the eye.

By: Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:24:40 +0000

Hey PH , WRT to conference call noted above -- you do know that guys never listen, right? Merry Happy and all that! Wayne Schulz´s last blog post..Sage MAS 90 2009 Tax Tables available now

By: Johan Lont

Johan Lont — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:58:47 +0000

Yes, that's understandable. Not wise, but understandable. Johan Lont´s last blog post..jclont: The movie Three Days of the Condor (starring Robert Redford) was based on the novel Six Days of the Condor. Typical.

By: paperhurts

paperhurts — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:40:23 +0000

We do not store them in Excel, but people dump parts lists to Excel spread sheets ALL THE TIME. These Excel lists become “master” lists for people who are too lazy to look them up manually. We do have quite a few proprietary tools that folks are supposed to be using for this sort of thing, but it’s just so EASY to send a .xls around….

By: Johan Lont

Johan Lont — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:34:08 +0000

Here’s one (sticking my hand up). Microsoft Excel is a great personal productivity tool and if you take the necessary precautions it also works for small work groups. But you shouldn’t use it to store your part lists or bills of material. I am not objective on this matter, because I work for a software company that also sells business applications for the Aerospace & Defense industries. In this business, there are a lot of three-letter abbreviations, such as ERP (Enterprise Resources Management) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), that are perfect to handle part numbers. Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for our customers, we have a lot competitors that develop similar applications in every level of sophistication you want, so there is really no need to stick with Microsoft Excel. And if you have an integration using XML-based standards, these appliations can also talk with each other.