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

[Qianglong]

My biggest gripe on some of them:

For those that are assigned a laptop, they do not know how to use it in dual monitor mode with their CRT monitor on the desk. So they dock it to a docking station and runs the 21 inch CRT at 50~60Hz and complain about eye sore.

 

[crystal]

Originally posted by: Qianglong
My biggest gripe on some of them:

For those that are assigned a laptop, they do not know how to use it in dual monitor mode with their CRT monitor on the desk. So they dock it to a docking station and runs the 21 inch CRT at 50~60Hz and complain about eye sore.

Pfff, you call that wasted resources?

If I have to guess, I would have to say it is you. You wasted time and imagination in thinking up all this off the wall questions. Put your brain into something productive. :light:

 

[getbush]

Originally posted by: Qianglong
My biggest gripe on some of them:

For those that are assigned a laptop, they do not know how to use it in dual monitor mode with their CRT monitor on the desk. So they dock it to a docking station and runs the 21 inch CRT at 50~60Hz and complain about eye sore.

Please tell me you are posting from work right now.

 

[Chaotic42]

We have to print millions of pages of reports per year that the departments get and throw away. Why do they still want them? Because they're afraid if we stop printing them, they'll never get them back.

My idea for a shared drive where the reports just sit and can be printed by the departments themselves? There's push back from the systems people.

Got to love working for a giant company. :roll:

 

[pontifex]

mu boss always buys these damn refurbished printers. i swear we have 4 or 5 of them that don't work sitting in a room right now. he constantly sends them back for repairs and they break again like a month later.

a lot of stuff he buys is cheap crap. and i'm the one that has to deal with it or deal with irate users about it. if he'd buy new or buy good equipment, we'd be better off. sure, it might cost more up front but i'd be willing to bet it would save money in the long run.

 

[amddude]

My old supervisor at work insisted on printing out our work schedules (call center) each week on top of e-mailing them. Then it got really ridiculous, like every powerpoint, manual, etc whatever she would just print out and give us mountains of paper. I swear, I could open a recycling plant in my damn cubicle now.

 

[mercanucaribe]

I waste a lot of resources.

 

[FoBoT]

buying stupid enterprise software instead of using free open source software

 

[Baked]

I got through 500 pages of paper a week printing crap.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I waste a lot of resources.

I was about to say the same thing. LOL

 

[getbush]

I really want to know if the OP is posting from work.

Why has no one mentioned TPS reports?

 

[jmcoreymv]

My old work was really good about reducing waste. They even switched to defaulting all the printers/copiers to double-sided mode. Saved a ton of paper. I think they also put in some sort of soil system on the roof to conserve energy.

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: Baked
I got through 500 pages of paper a week printing crap.

Of size D paper (24"x36")

 

[acid45]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
buying stupid enterprise software instead of using free open source software

I hear that... i just recently got them to switch to a Open Source Picture viewer (XnView)

Now im pushing for open office for the techs..


-Chris

 

[Patt]

I waste bandwidth resources all the time

 

[Mermaidman]

Pet peeve: People who don't close the lid of a copier when copying small items--major waste of toner.

 

[getbush]

I kind of remember something about a guy who wasted $800,000 some odd dollars of computer resources at a university in GA

 

[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.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I waste a lot of resources.

Me too. I just used 4000 metal and 1000 energy building a giant statue of a bird make completely out of small metal trinary numbers that are the sum of two cubes. It only took about 2101001 hours.

 

[getbush]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I waste a lot of resources.

Me too. I just used 4000 metal and 1000 energy building a giant statue of a bird make completely out of small metal trinary numbers that are the sum of two cubes. It only took about 2101001 hours.

pics

 

[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.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
We have to print millions of pages of reports per year that the departments get and throw away. Why do they still want them? Because they're afraid if we stop printing them, they'll never get them back.

My idea for a shared drive where the reports just sit and can be printed by the departments themselves? There's push back from the systems people.

Got to love working for a giant company. :roll:

We have huge shared servers, with multiple site backup. yet we still print hundreds of pages a day. And then we store the records for five years. then they get backed up on microfische and stored in a cave.
I don't even want to think about how much more i'd be making if they weren't wasting money on all of that crap.

 

[MaxDepth]

Food. they order too much and no, just because you are an executive does not mean a free lunch every day.
I'd rather have an offsite lunch and chow down on some really good food.

 

[Scouzer]

Our work software is set to print absolutely all messages that come in even though the software was designed to be completely electronic--no paper. Most sites use no paper, but the people I work with are too old and scared of change, so everything keeps on printing...90% of the time it isn't even read and thrown in the garbage.

We fill a 60 litre garbage can of paper a day...which is a lot for a place that only has 4 people working in any given 24 hour period. (24 hour operation)

This all prints on dot matrix as well

 

[jammur21]

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