Top 10 ways to introduce a little excitement into your workplace Written by OfficeComedy.com
10. Page yourself over intercom. (Don't disguise your voice.) 9. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly same outfits. Then wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are.) 8. Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. "That's a good point, Sparky." "No, I'm sorry. I'm going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi." 7. Send email to rest of company telling them what you're doing. For example "If anyone needs me, I'll be in bathroom doing a number 2." 6. "Highlight" your shoes. Tell people that you haven't lost your shoes since you did this. 5. Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle. 4. Arrive at a meeting late, say you're sorry, but you didn't have time for lunch, and you're going to be nibbling during meeting. During meeting eat 5 entire raw onions.
| | HI-Rel Corporation Selects EZ-MRPWritten by Rocky Smolin
E-Z-MRP, leading manufacturing software system for small manufacturers, announced a new pricing and product structure. According to Rocky Smolin, founder of Beach Access Software, makers of E-Z-MRP, “We see a distinction between those small manufacturers with less than five hundred parts in material resource planning, and those with a need for virtually unlimited part numbers.”Companies like Hi-Rel Corporation have utilized this delineation recently by leasing E-Z MRP system for manufacturers with more than 500 parts. According to Jerry Stouffer, “It made sense given our cash flow and I would recommend E-Z-MRP to other small manufacturers because support is excellent and product is easy to work with.” Stouffer did suggest that manufacturers looking for a customer relations management module should look at something else. However he was impressed with, “…How fast it (E-Z-MRP) calculates our requirements. I have 800 items in database and it only takes 20 seconds.” Small manufacturers with more than about a hundred parts can no longer manage manufacturing process manually or on an Excel spreadsheet. Since more than 84% of all manufacturers have less than fifty employees, there is a remarkable opportunity for cost-effective manufacturing systems like E-Z-MRP. Despite extensive media coverage regarding ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), in most cases these small manufacturers do not require all functionality offered, nor can many afford price point.
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