Jim Singleton wrote to Nightfox <=-
I remember having a cigarette vending machine in our cafeteria at work and being able to smoke at my desk at work in this time period.
My first boss, in the early '90s, used to regale us of stories of "work used to be". Smoking rooms, a "shine boy" for your shoes, coffee carts going from office to office. No voicemail, there were "the girls" in an office behind the front desk that wrote down messages and put them up at the front desk.
Odd to think that he was about the same age I am now.
"Why, in my day, we didn't have email, if something was important, you'd send a FAX!"
... Socks are carcinogenic.
i often think we are using more paper now than ever.Jim Singleton wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
We still use a fax machine/copier in my office from time to time.
I'm going through a thing at work where half of the older employees are pushing to upgrade our multi-function printers, the other half wonder
why they're bothering.
I do like being able to scan paper copy to PDFs, though.
i often think we are using more paper now than ever. Jim Singleton
Jim Singleton wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I do like being able to scan paper copy to PDFs, though.
i often think we are using more paper now than ever.
Nightfox wrote to Jim Singleton <=-
More and more these days, I wish people would email you things as PDFs
or similar so I could open it up on my computer (or perhaps
smartphone).. I feel like it would be easier to have scanned/digital copies of documents.
Recently I've been looking for work, as I was laid off in September.
I've been attending a weekly job search networking group (they have various topics each week), and the person who organizes it sometimes
gives printed handouts. She has most of our email addresses though,
since it's possible to pre-register for it, and she does send job
postings via PDF; I think it would be useful if the paper handouts she
has were instead emailed as PDFs. I imagine she probably prints them
off from some electronic source anyway; they could probably be easily saved as a PDF to be sent out via email.
Good luck in your job search. I spent 2016-2017 looking for a job, and part of 2018. I had some career coach sessions that helped some. Two takeaways I had from that were to focus on making stories compelling, and using what people refer to as a SCAR/STAR portfolio.
If you're walking, keep doing it. If not, start at least once a day. Get out, stretch out, get some air, and some sunlight. It made a huge difference in my mindset.
Re: Re: Bbsing
By: Jim Singleton to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 27 2026 01:18 pm
i often think we are using more paper now than ever. Jim Singleton
More and more these days, I wish people would email you things as PDFs or similar so I could open it up on my computer (or perhaps smartphone).. I fe like it would be easier to have scanned/digital copies of documents.
I bought a new car a few years ago, and I scanned all the paperwork into a P so I can look at it more easily if I need to, and that has been useful a cou times.
Recently I've been looking for work, as I was laid off in September. I've b attending a weekly job search networking group (they have various topics eac week), and the person who organizes it sometimes gives printed handouts. Sh has most of our email addresses though, since it's possible to pre-register it, and she does send job postings via PDF; I think it would be useful if th paper handouts she has were instead emailed as PDFs. I imagine she probably prints them off from some electronic source anyway; they could probably be easily saved as a PDF to be sent out via email.
Nightfox
First get the computer side working then get that printer up and printing. I can remember a time when the single printer we had at work failed and I was sent out to a local 'computer store' immediately with cash to get a new one. That day.Jim Singleton wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I do like being able to scan paper copy to PDFs, though.
i often think we are using more paper now than ever.
Hard no.
At my first job, we had a midrange computer managing ordering, sales,
inventory, accounting and GL for a university bookstore We had
terminals for sales lookups and ordering, but most of the business ran
on the reams of greenbar 11x17 paper reports I printed out after store
closing and distributed to mailboxes for morning pickup.
I mentioned earlier that I'm involved in office moves and setups, my
team handles IT. We had half of a new office asking to not move the
printer, the office head, who's my age, insisted that we get the
printer set up ASAP.
Jim Singleton wrote to Nightfox <=-
I like that idea of creating a PDF. And of course, it could be printed
off as needed. I have a weekend project now.
What I can't stand are Adobe PDF products - expensive, hard to manage,
and they all want to save to Adobe Cloud, which we don't use. I'm in
the market for a small, lightweight PDF editor.
Robert Wolfe wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
What I can't stand are Adobe PDF products - expensive, hard to manage,
and they all want to save to Adobe Cloud, which we don't use. I'm in
the market for a small, lightweight PDF editor.
I use Nuance Power PDF.
I had a problem in 2022 with an Adobe created PDF I received with a virus in i. I updated my antivirus detection and it said the PDF still had a virus in it. I sent the PDF to Adobe to analyze and never heard back from them. I used another PDF viewing program and all was well. I have been hesistant to go back toJim Singleton wrote to Nightfox <=-
I like that idea of creating a PDF. And of course, it could be printed off as needed. I have a weekend project now.
There are some pretty nice scanning tools out there now - my Canon
inkjet has a scanner and a paper feeder, I swear by that. All of our
printers in the offices scan *very* quickly - and there's a Microsoft
and Google PDF scanner for Android I've played with.
What I can't stand are Adobe PDF products - expensive, hard to manage,
and they all want to save to Adobe Cloud, which we don't use. I'm in
the market for a small, lightweight PDF editor.
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