March 29, 2006
Dear Everyone:
Our project to convert a customer’s many cabinets into one “super” cabinet in the document management system is loping along quite nicely now. The more data we map, the better we’re getting at it. And the technical support guy, “Siegmund”, has found ways to move documents during the day instead of having to wait until after everyone else goes home at night. We probably won’t finish by the “official” deadline, which is this Friday, but we’ll be close.
In the meantime, the people who actually use the documents have to be able to find them once they’ve been moved. One team member has taken copies of the original spreadsheets that we use for data mapping and converted them into a kind of “cheat sheet”. One column has the original folder path with the new path in the column next to it. She’s taken this and pasted links to the new folders into the spreadsheet. Then she mails it out to the users. They find the old folder where they would have looked for the document, then use the link to take them into the document management system, right to the new folder.
Also, this Friday, the two of us are going to get together and make up a “Tips, Tricks and Helpful Hints” presentation. We can draw a lot from the training materials that I already have in place. So things are going well on that front.
In other news…
We had a rather sudden meeting last Thursday in which our supervisor outlined the “new and improved” organization in our work group. We’ve been expecting some kind of a reorganization since we were moved from “Boring and Really Expensive Services” into the Information Technology Company. They’re not planning on getting rid of anyone (technically) so that’s a bit of a relief. In fact, they’re planning on adding as many as three new analysts in the next six months to a year.
And one of the selection criteria for these new analysts is that they already have a CRM. “CRM” stands for Certified Records Manager. You get certified by passing a six-part test. A number of us at work have been studying for this test since last year and I do plan to apply for and take the first five parts in November. Which is why I keep taking that textbook with me to the hairdresser’s every month. And keep reading it in the evenings and typing out the review questions and answers at the end of each chapter.
But that didn’t stop me from going to the movies
with “Jeannie” last Sunday.
Inside Man
stars Denzel
Washington, Clive
Owen and Jodie
Foster. The title keeps
changing meaning throughout the movie.
Clive Owen plays Dalton Russell, the guy in charge
of the bank robbery. He
doesn’t seem to think that the robbery has gone wrong.
He has a number of accomplices called variations of “Steve”.
They work busily doing whatever.
It’s a lot like the early episodes of the TV series
Jodie Foster plays Madeline White, a power broker who walks around with a handbag that “Jeannie” whispered, “…is worth $7000.” It’s refreshing to see Foster play a decidedly unsympathetic character. She’s willing to do just about anything to get what she wants, which is what her client wants. It’s this client who is at the heart of what’s really going on.
There’s a lovely twist at the end that pretty much explains everything. “Jeannie” remarked that the movie wasn’t very engaging, but that might have been because for a good part of it, everyone was wearing identical clothing and masks, so you couldn’t really see who was who. Or maybe because she didn’t figure it out way before the rest of us.
Nevertheless, well worth the matinee price.
Love, as always,
Pete
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