In The Kingdom Of The Cubicles…!
Still waiting on them to acknowledge the vaccine that THEY set up for me…
Which is weirdly stressful.
I am more concerned with the time that it would take during the school day in order to get the weekly COVID test than anything else. Given how long it took with almost no one on campus, I’m pretty troubled by the reality of executing that process for around 1300 people. That seems like a formula for inefficiency. It would easily promote class time being missed by both teachers and students, simply waiting in line for the test. Granted, more class time is being lost by not being at school at all, or in having silly Zoom classes, but it is a logistical nightmare.
I guess I understand the processing time here…since there are around 35,000 teachers. If you had to process one form for each, then yes, that’s 35,000 forms. Granted, they are generally submitted digitally, so it is pretty much a “point and click” undertaking. However, if we assume that it would take two minutes per approval, by point and click, that would be 70,000 minutes of work. That’s 1167 hours of work, or 48 days (24 hour days) of work. Turning those into work days of eight hours, that’s 144 work days, or if you had 144 workers, one full day per worker.
So…it’s an understandable problem, in terms of logistics at every end. The Beaudry Building is a 29 story building filled with cube farms, so one might imagine the necessary 144 workers are on hand. Although that would assume that all the forms are in, and waiting to be processed, which also isn’t true.
It’s why I got my paperwork in immediately…in the hopes that it would be processed pretty quickly. So far, it hasn’t happened yet.
Sigh.
Tales of Adequacy! 