Big government crushes American standard of living

[kimba1]

trustee bankruptcy use massive amount of paper still,not from the firms preference.
alot of clients don`t use computers
lots of faxing and snail mail.

i still cut and paste newspaper articles too.

last year it was discovered alot of articles are slightly edited before they are published online so thay can`t be used anymore as a reliable source.

don`t forget not all businesses can receive large docs from the internet.

recently I couldn`t print a color doc from a website. It was such weird gliche from my system.

but I got serious doubts this is rare.incompartability is not unheard of

[Xavier_Onassis]

Lawyers like to generate tons of paper. It justifies their high fees, though they do very little of the actual work. The secretary downloads boilerplate, fills in a few blanks, and the lawyer signs it. And charges as though it was all done from scratch.

[kimba1]

the partners do little work,but not the associates, they go throught all those docs to make everything is correct and orders  the partners to sign them and totally can gety away with it because it`s all the parnters fault for scerwing up and not signing for turning slopping work in. on tv you see all this neat work done by lawyers,but don`t see the staff required to do it.
theirs a reason law firms have a high turn-over,despite in the clerical  field they pay the highest.

[Amianthus]

then how do you type a quick letter confidentally???

our printers are shared

Those people who need to generate confidential paper documents get a printer on their desk. Others shouldn't be using company equipment for personal use. Besides, it's trivially easy to change the "paper source" on the printed document to "manual feed" and the printer will hold the print job until you go over to the printer and put paper into the manual feed. Other places I've worked had "confidential" print queues - you printed the documents to a confidential queue and gave it a pin. Then, when you walked over to the printer, you keyed in the pin and it printed the documents with that pin out of the print queue.

[kimba1]

we don`t have that at work. you got a way more current set up than my worksite.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Lawyers tend to be somewhat backward as a group about technology.

Getting them to touch a keyboard was a major innovation for some of them. Only women touched keyboards in the Good Old Days. Lawyers dictated into a Dictabelt machine.

I am sure that they are not all backward, but as a group, they tend to not be on the cutting edge.

[kimba1]

I`m of a different conclusion.
in the business world the need for the latest stuff is just not necessary.
the major change of office 2003 and the latest office is margins in the word program.
I`ve never heard anyone say it`s much improved.