August 13th, 2003



The Top 9 Ways Work Would Be
Different If Computers Had Never Been Invented


9> Bill Gates toils away in the mailroom.

8> Avoiding work by Instant Messaging your friends is a lot less fun when you have to use the office telegraph.

7> Wite-Out would be available in 55-gallon drums.

6> Dude, you’re getting an abacus!

5> With a ten-key machine and ledger paper, it takes much longer to convert insane assumptions to outrageous projections.

4> Millions of office workers would require retraining to actually learn the rules of solitaire.

3> We would need to hire outside consultants to help periodically crash our collections of adding machine

bookshelves.

2> Surfing for porn requires leaving the office to browse magazines at the truck stop.

and the Number 1 Way Work Would Be Different If Computers Had
Never Been Invented…

1> Worker productivity up 350 percent.




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Credits:

Selected from 19 submissions from 7 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Rabbi Crut, Bowling Green, OH — 1, Topic
(Employee of the week!)
Richard W. Lipp, Lenexa, KS — 2, 5
William Wickart, Hillsboro, OR — 3, 4
Brad Wilkerson, El Sobrante, CA — 6, 8, 9 (Hat trick!)
Janis Spidle, Kansas City, MO — 7
K.W. Wyckham, Youngstown, OH — Banner Tag
Wade Kwon, Birmingham, AL — President & CEO