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Keeping up with Paperwork

Keeping up with Paperwork

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Has anyone got a good way to beat the pencil pushers.

I believe that the Duke of Wellington was half right when he wrole to the Foreign Office in 1812, but since then Bureaurcrats seem to be regaining superiority

http://www.cns.gatech.edu/CNS/GTaccountProcs.pdf
 

RE: Keeping up with Paperwork

Haven't beat them, but try to annoy them once in a while.

I always get a little bit of perverse satisfaction from using one of the industrial staplers to attach reciepts to expense account statements, knowing that eventually the accountant has to pull it back out, which can't be done without a set of pliers.  

RE: Keeping up with Paperwork

I don't mind keeping up with paperwork. Since you are in mining, you probably work for a well organized company and see it as a pain in the ass. I've worked for nothing but small companies, or big companies that operate like small companies. Trying to work effieciently and effectively without procedures, poorly designed forms in MS word, or without company standards (where everyone does it however they want) is a lot bigger pain in the ass than dealing with a few stupid standard forms.

RE: Keeping up with Paperwork

It's only going to get worse as time goes on, no matter what industry.  The documentists and bean counters have, for the most part, won. The human race has succumbed to fear, and 99.99% of all human beings are now sheep, awaiting the next hurdle to jump or queue to fall into.  Those of us who still possess a spine and independent thought simply while away the days pulling out each strand, follicle by follicle.  But the good news is, it's friday, and those of us in the States have 3 glorious days to enjoy a cold beverage or two, fire up the grill, and bask in the wonderful spring weather, at least in the upper midwest.  Have a good weekend everyone!

RE: Keeping up with Paperwork

I find clearing my paperwork off my desk makes a lovely start to a bonfire.  Will be lifting a glass in your direction, norsk!

RE: Keeping up with Paperwork

PBroad,

   Are you certain that the paperwork you hate is unnecessary?

   I have a couple of suggestions here.

  1. If you have to generate paperwork for your own reference, identify the officially required document that satisfies your requirement, and generate that.  For example, a parts list you scribble on the back of an envelope, will have to be redone in the offical format, later.  Do these things one time, only.
  2. If you have any control over your bureaucratic process, apply the KISS rule.  Do not control information you do not need.  Report information once, in one place, only.
  3. If you have no control over the bureaucratic process, politely ask them to justify each of their reports.  Maybe they can simplify stuff.

               JHG

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