WHat are some of the biggest resource waster you see at your workplace?

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: jammur21
Spending $300 for dot-matrix printers in 2006. Nothing like waiting 10 minutes for a 40 page inventory report to print out.

And losing your hearing while it's printing...

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
The biggest waste of resources is anorexic people. I mean seriously, you eat some good food then puke it up? Come on, give it to some starving children in Africa that Madona wants to adopt.


edit: I'm wasting resources right now by posting at work.

Anorexic people don't eat.. bulemic I believe is the term you are looking for

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Biggest waste of resources?

Hmm. There's plenty in aviation. Weather is the biggest one. Recently we launched a 727 from Anchorage to Shemya AFB, which is the last ALeutian Island (almost). 1500 miles one way. That leg burns 29,000 pounds of fuel. Plane gets close to Shemya... weather went bad, plane couldn't land so it diverted to Adak. (another 15,000 pounds of fuel). Plane gasses up, Shemya weather is still bad... so the plane came back to Anchorage. Completely wasted trip. Total fuel used? About 60,000 pounds. Total elapsed time, 7 hours. I'd say that's a spectacular waste of resources; sadly sometimes it simply isn't avoidable.

Jet fuel is measured in pounds?

Edit: I guess that kinda makes sense...

 

[chambersc]

The company I work for is SO inefficient. If I could revamp their system, they could cut their workforce by 50% tomorrow and save loads.

 

[ViviTheMage]

their cpu -_-

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: jammur21
Spending $300 for dot-matrix printers in 2006. Nothing like waiting 10 minutes for a 40 page inventory report to print out.

And losing your hearing while it's printing...

Believe it or not, at my old place of work, we had to buy soundproof cases for those dot matrix printers.

 

[Beau]

If $$ == Resources then:

My company decided to switch to Oracle from MySQL primarily for marketing reasons. They used the excuse of it's robustness, view support and replication without doing any technical research for our need.

Oracle Rack: $1mil
Dev time to convert our app to work with Oracle: $1mil
Never-ending Headaches from Oracle's quirks: priceless.

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Biggest waste of resources?

Hmm. There's plenty in aviation. Weather is the biggest one. Recently we launched a 727 from Anchorage to Shemya AFB, which is the last ALeutian Island (almost). 1500 miles one way. That leg burns 29,000 pounds of fuel. Plane gets close to Shemya... weather went bad, plane couldn't land so it diverted to Adak. (another 15,000 pounds of fuel). Plane gasses up, Shemya weather is still bad... so the plane came back to Anchorage. Completely wasted trip. Total fuel used? About 60,000 pounds. Total elapsed time, 7 hours. I'd say that's a spectacular waste of resources; sadly sometimes it simply isn't avoidable.

Jet fuel is measured in pounds?

Edit: I guess that kinda makes sense...

No, it doesn't. The metric system, however, does.

 

[Anubis]

we avg 6k$ a day of scrap

if you want specifics i guess i can post them up but im lazy

 

[LegendKiller]

The biggest waste I see is the lights. When it's midnight this place is lit up like a candle.

 

[wheresmybacon]

People printing everything. I don't understand why everything needs to be printed. Usually older folks are most often guilty of this...