I have since retired, but I found this amusing. I wrote it a few years ago.
A paperless office is what we need
Or that’s what the big shots important memo decrees.
Well, that’s not so bad, the top of my desk I’ll finally see.
Sounds like a good thing, no clutter, no paper anywhere,
But this doesn’t always work so great, so people beware!
For when the computer goes down from all its hard work
It says, no more, I’ve had enough! When the pictures and words disappear from our trusty screen; whatever
will be do, we’re at its mercy you see.
When it says no, I’ll work no more, and just sits there useless sitting on the floor, where are we then. Used
to be when the computer went down, get the paper copy we cried out loud.
But where is the paper copy now?
When all of our data has gone from our lives, no more computer or paper to fight. There’s only one thing we
have left to do. Unplug the thing, go home and retire!
A dream of office efficiency experts, but far from reality. It seems like there's more paper with computers than before.
I saw the potential of paperless when I got my first personal computer around 1987. By that time I could no longer handle my paper myself and the assistant that I had was terrible at filing paperwork, even with my instruction. In those days we had "floppy" discs to hold documents so it was harder to lose them, but I did, a couple of times when my hard drive failed before I started to use backup hard drives and didn't lose very much at all.
I now have tens of thousands of documents and pictures on my computers, all backed up so that I will not lose any, and have not lost any of any values. In spite of my insistence on keeping all of my documents on the computer and only printing when absolutely necessary, my desk at work before I retired was cluttered with old documents that literally sat there for years because people would drop off some paperwork, I would read it and then put it on a pile and it would just sit there with no one to even clean my desk, let alone put away those documents properly.
The "cloud" has promise of backing up our work if we choose to use it. We are not there yet, but the future will contain fewer and fewer physical documents that we can put in our hands. But I certainly have a lot of paperback books that I'd like to put in readers' hands. ;-)
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I saw the potential of paperless when I got my first personal computer around 1987. By that time I could no longer handle my paper myself and the assistant that I had was terrible at filing paperwork, even with my instruction. In those days we had "floppy" discs to hold documents so it was harder to lose them, but I did, a couple of times when my hard drive failed before I started to use backup hard drives and didn't lose very much at all.
I now have tens of thousands of documents and pictures on my computers, all backed up so that I will not lose any, and have not lost any of any values. In spite of my insistence on keeping all of my documents on the computer and only printing when absolutely necessary, my desk at work before I retired was cluttered with old documents that literally sat there for years because people would drop off some paperwork, I would read it and then put it on a pile and it would just sit there with no one to even clean my desk, let alone put away those documents properly.
The "cloud" has promise of backing up our work if we choose to use it. We are not there yet, but the future will contain fewer and fewer physical documents that we can put in our hands. But I certainly have a lot of paperback books that I'd like to put in readers' hands. ;-)
Ron