This is the situation where both the Boss and the Employee have nothing (or little to gain). It may appear weird, but indulge me. I have seen this happen over and over.
- Say employees are paid X amount a month. Now, with their current method, they can be slimey and not deliver, and then tell the boss it's complicated, Photoshop, etc.. So it's just few cards to deliver per day.
Maybe they have their macros, etc, to speed stuff up (not to the point of your software), but they only speed things up when they need to, and they slow them when they need a break. A card can take up an eternity, just because it's easier to do work on the same thing for 6 hours: You don't think much. Start the second thing for 2 hours and go home.
So a software that speeds this whole thing risks taking control out of these employees, because there would be a clear metric, a clear number of cards to expect.
It doesn't "depend" on anything anymore. They can't hustle their way around it.
Second problem is that, these employees make X amount a month, producing y cards.. With your software, they would still make that amount with 10y cards, so they have nothing to gain, really.
Sure, they're making more cards but "what's in it for me".
There is one, additional tricky part: The boss doesn't want it, and why..
The boss is paying the employee X dollars/month and the employee produces, say 10 cards/day to fill a 30 cards/day order from their clients.
With your software, the employee produces the whole 30 cards/day, and then what ? Sits there all day ?
Even for the boss, an order can wait 3 days to fill. No problem. The employee is there, he's being paid anyway, so whether it takes 1 day or 3 days is irrelevant.
The reason they're not interested is that they don't ship that many cards anyway, so the benefit of having your software is only marginal.
But maybe you can do the following.. Make your own company and gut them.
Or if you don't want to, and you're willing to force yourself upon them, you can contact their clients and ask them if they had something against your software (which ?)..
The software that makes a gazillion cards per day your contractor doesn't want to buy/licence, making you wait to get your cards..
This is exactly the first thought I had when I read ID cards for "students/staff" i.e. likely a university.
Universities (probably government bureaucracies also) will hang on to some of the most nonsensical manual processes simply because they are loathe to automate anything to the point where a job position might become unnecessary. There are many reasons for this, but mainly that an administrative appointement in a university carries prestige and clout proportionate to its number of subordinate positions. Along with the number of subordinates, the size of the budget it commands is also a critical signal. Maintaining---and if possible, growing---these two peacock feathers is the driving rationale for most of the idiocy you see in university administration.
If you eliminate the need for a staff job, you reduce the budget and the number of reports the boss has. So the boss will be very protective of his/her little fiefdom and will reject any attempts to automate or improve efficnency in any way that might eliminate any jobs.
If I may go slightly off topic, and dive into University nonsense:
I passed by a stocking area in my Electronics faculty, where I catched a glimpse of Tektronix scopes, so I entered.
I asked the man in charge there what's up with those, he said they were obsolete (?) and the faculty doesn't need them anymore.. Sweet. I asked if I can buy them (there were a lot of scopes, function generators, power supplies, etc).
He said I couldn't buy them. He said they're selling them to some companies "by the kilogramme". Most of these scopes probably had some cap going nuts to be replaced or something. I couldn't buy them because it needs to go through some regulations, and offerings, and contracts, etc.
I'm just a student who'd loved to have a Tektronix "scope". They're selling them as metal. If it came from any other entity, I would've understood.. But from the Electronics' faculty, it's kind of sad.
One of my CS professors gave us this advice about starting a company (which I think generalizes what you're describing):
Companies don't care about saving money. Even when the amount is the same, they're much more receptive to pitches that involve them making extra money.
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Incentives, my friend..
This is the situation where both the Boss and the Employee have nothing (or little to gain). It may appear weird, but indulge me. I have seen this happen over and over.
- Say employees are paid X amount a month. Now, with their current method, they can be slimey and not deliver, and then tell the boss it's complicated, Photoshop, etc.. So it's just few cards to deliver per day.
Maybe they have their macros, etc, to speed stuff up (not to the point of your software), but they only speed things up when they need to, and they slow them when they need a break. A card can take up an eternity, just because it's easier to do work on the same thing for 6 hours: You don't think much. Start the second thing for 2 hours and go home.
So a software that speeds this whole thing risks taking control out of these employees, because there would be a clear metric, a clear number of cards to expect.
It doesn't "depend" on anything anymore. They can't hustle their way around it.
Second problem is that, these employees make X amount a month, producing y cards.. With your software, they would still make that amount with 10y cards, so they have nothing to gain, really.
Sure, they're making more cards but "what's in it for me".
There is one, additional tricky part: The boss doesn't want it, and why..
The boss is paying the employee X dollars/month and the employee produces, say 10 cards/day to fill a 30 cards/day order from their clients.
With your software, the employee produces the whole 30 cards/day, and then what ? Sits there all day ?
Even for the boss, an order can wait 3 days to fill. No problem. The employee is there, he's being paid anyway, so whether it takes 1 day or 3 days is irrelevant.
The reason they're not interested is that they don't ship that many cards anyway, so the benefit of having your software is only marginal.
But maybe you can do the following.. Make your own company and gut them.
Or if you don't want to, and you're willing to force yourself upon them, you can contact their clients and ask them if they had something against your software (which ?)..
The software that makes a gazillion cards per day your contractor doesn't want to buy/licence, making you wait to get your cards..
This is exactly the first thought I had when I read ID cards for "students/staff" i.e. likely a university.
Universities (probably government bureaucracies also) will hang on to some of the most nonsensical manual processes simply because they are loathe to automate anything to the point where a job position might become unnecessary. There are many reasons for this, but mainly that an administrative appointement in a university carries prestige and clout proportionate to its number of subordinate positions. Along with the number of subordinates, the size of the budget it commands is also a critical signal. Maintaining---and if possible, growing---these two peacock feathers is the driving rationale for most of the idiocy you see in university administration.
If you eliminate the need for a staff job, you reduce the budget and the number of reports the boss has. So the boss will be very protective of his/her little fiefdom and will reject any attempts to automate or improve efficnency in any way that might eliminate any jobs.
If I may go slightly off topic, and dive into University nonsense:
I passed by a stocking area in my Electronics faculty, where I catched a glimpse of Tektronix scopes, so I entered.
I asked the man in charge there what's up with those, he said they were obsolete (?) and the faculty doesn't need them anymore.. Sweet. I asked if I can buy them (there were a lot of scopes, function generators, power supplies, etc).
He said I couldn't buy them. He said they're selling them to some companies "by the kilogramme". Most of these scopes probably had some cap going nuts to be replaced or something. I couldn't buy them because it needs to go through some regulations, and offerings, and contracts, etc.
I'm just a student who'd loved to have a Tektronix "scope". They're selling them as metal. If it came from any other entity, I would've understood.. But from the Electronics' faculty, it's kind of sad.
One of my CS professors gave us this advice about starting a company (which I think generalizes what you're describing):
Companies don't care about saving money. Even when the amount is the same, they're much more receptive to pitches that involve them making extra money.