It's crazy how a company will spend tens of thousands investigating how to lean-out one manufacturing process but then force employees to use an enterprise version of Windows that takes so long to reboot, you can almost watch your fingernails grow while waiting.
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Unfortunately, Gen X, and Millennials are probably the only tech literate generation, and most aren't in positions of power to make meaningful change.
Boomers can grasp some aspect part of their business since it's profitable for them to do so.
Then they pay subpar wages to some Gen Z that probably knows how to operate Windows 7, and has never heard of Linux, and even if he did, the subpar wages aren't enough for him to make the changes, and the boomers would ignore the advice anyways because Microsoft has a corporate suite (therefore it must be better because it's designed for businesses).
always invest in new equipment for my people. all they have to do is tell me they believe that it will increase their productivity enough to pay for the equipment
so say you make 50K, a thousand a week
and a new computer is $2000
do you spend 4% of your time waiting for the computer to do stuff?
that's 1.6 hours a week
20 minutes a day
do you spend 20 minutes a day waiting for the computer to do stuff?
if you make a 100K then it's only 10 minutes a day, etc