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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

4439.0. "Employee reporting structure?" by USPS::FPRUSS (Frank Pruss, 202-232-7347) Wed Feb 21 1996 23:53

    I noticed in a recent note that someone obtained the "reporting
    structure" for an employee (The Greyhawk).
    
    Does anyone have the incantation to obtain this?
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4439.1SMURF::PBECKRob Peter and pay *me*...Thu Feb 22 1996 00:042
    http://truth.mso.dec.com:8001/htbin/emp_www
    
4439.2What a wasteFSAEUR::ROEThu Feb 22 1996 03:481
    I'm sure this web site is useful to someone, but come on.
4439.3Whoa Nellie!QUICKP::KEHOEI can seeThu Feb 22 1996 08:1020
    re .-1
    
    I find the webELF with reporting structure extremely helpful.
    Often in the field in order to get a customer question answered
    I have to call someone (often someone listed in the header of a Sales
    Update article, or a product manager mentioned in a notesfile).
    
    By knowing the reporting structure, in and your peers as well, I can
    now see who else to call if you are one of those people who
    unfortunately treat the phone as an inconvenience.  
    
    One of IBM's greatest ideas was that there are only two job functions
    in the company:  Sales and Sales Support.  If you aren't in sales, then
    you are in Sales Support.  Sales has to be responsive to the customer,
    since they are the ones with the money.  Everyone else, including
    myself, need to think in support of the sales effort in this company.
    
    WebELF gives me a yet another way to do just that!
    
    Dan
4439.4COVERT::COVERTJohn R. CovertThu Feb 22 1996 08:503
re .2 "What a waste"

What an attitude.
4439.5AttitudeFSAEUR::ROEThu Feb 22 1996 09:3025
    To elaborate on what I said in .2 and my "attitude"
    
    I really don't know what it took to put this together or to maintain it
    and I do know that it could be helpful to some but....
    
    I also know that 65,000 people have been layed off by Digital including
    many this last week.  In a company that it is difficult to get paper
    clips, I was just surprised to find that such a tool existed.  What is
    the estimated number of DECies that (a) know about this tool  (b)
    actually have access to it and (c) have access to it on a timely basis?
    I don't know.
    
    I guess that I was just expressing frustration at seeing one tool after
    the other go away, including many fine talented human tools.
    
    Every tool is a plus.  Every tool is a help.  It's just that different
    people have different priorities.  Every day someone decides on
    Secretary or voice mail, Sales Rep or HiNote with mobilizer, new VP or
    new office PCs.  Some of us lean one way and some of us lean the
    other. Someone decided to stop publishing Digital Phone Books (a tool
    that I used all the time) and Systems and Option Guides.  If that saved
    jobs, great.  I, fortunately, do not have to make these decisions but I
    can have opinion, thank you.
    
    My "what a waste" refers to what has gone not to what remains.
4439.6who's your boss?ANNECY::HOTCHKISSFri Feb 23 1996 05:072
    I find the tool excellent-it enables me to find out who my current
    boss is  ;-)
4439.7BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurFri Feb 23 1996 07:215
    re .6:
    
    With the long response times I experience nowadays on our internal
    network, I wouldn't be so sure the response is correct by the time you
    receive it...   ;-)
4439.8WLDBIL::KILGOREStop Global Whining!Fri Feb 23 1996 12:318
    
    With this technology now in place, I envision a day when subscribers
    may receive daily email messages headed
    
      "Digital Orginization Chart -- 23-Feb-1997, 10:23
    
    And to think we joked about this just a few years ago...
    
4439.9DECWET::FARLEEInsufficient Virtual um...er....Fri Feb 23 1996 12:512
I still firmly believe that org charts should be published in .MPEG
format!
4439.10Slight correctionQUICKP::KEHOEI can seeFri Feb 23 1996 14:1813
    
        re .8
    
             "Digital Orginization Chart -- 23-Feb-1997, 10:23
                         _
    
        We actually do.  Much of our public literature and quotes
        with text from the price file have poor spelling.  I can't
        tell you how tired I am of seeing "DECnet End note" licensing
        on quotes!
    
        I know you were emphasizing the second-by-second timing, but
        the spelling brought this issue to mind.
4439.11USPS::FPRUSSFrank Pruss, 202-232-7347Sun Feb 25 1996 23:351
    I heard our org charts are created using PCB layout E-CAD software.
4439.12Is .1 correct? Is there an alternate?ASABET::nqsrv308.nqo.dec.com::fprussDr. VelocityMon Feb 26 1996 10:243
BTW:  I am having no luck at all with the pointer in .1.  Is there a typo?

FJP
4439.13QUARK::LIONELFree advice is worth every centMon Feb 26 1996 10:283
It's correct, but the site is known for being unreliable.

				Steve
4439.14try againRUMOR::FALEKex-TU58 KingMon Feb 26 1996 17:234
    The ancient ncsa web server on TRUTH:: is flakey, the http daemon keeps
    getting wedged in MUTEX state. Short term fix is to move it to
    Purveyer, which was recently installed. The application is in the process
    of being re-written/improved to be rehosted on NT.
4439.15TURRIS::lspace.zko.dec.com::winalskiPLIT happens...Thu Apr 18 1996 22:294
I just checked this out.  Interesting--my reporting hierarchy is 
shortest that it's been in the 15+ years I've been with DEC/Digital.

--PSW