[quote=craptcha]BG, you said nothing about the actual work you performed. Are you being compensated for working with psychotic bosses in poorly managed organization?[/quote]
This is how the court and justice system worked at that time. The clerks for the court and for both the “People” and the “Defendants” worked one day ahead of the court schedule. Everything had to be proved to the judge – on paper and on time.
Those papers had to be found and produced, no matter WHERE they were located.
Without working “in the system” for 2-3 years and having excellent training, one would have no idea how to find them, let alone be able to properly “produce them.”
The “computers” we had were CRTs on a crude Burroughs mainframe which did not give us all the info we needed but was a start.
In one of the duties we had, we were on your own to produce up to 400 files per day (avg 365) beginning at 8:00 am (with pt-time, intermittent help). If you couldn’t finish the job by 3:30, you had to tell your entire floor thru a megaphone which ones were missing and enlist aid from anyone available to give it.
If you sat in a felony courtroom in a large CA county and watched the proceedings for a few hours, it all looks perfunctory and smooth.
You have NO IDEA how much work from how many people goes into that ONE calendar.
Not really psychotic … or “poorly managed.” We just did the very best we could with what we had to work with. I think we did a “bang up” job!
The difference between craptcha (a Gen Y?) and a boomer is that the Gen Y thinks a supervisor is “psychotic” when they want face time and want to know what their subordinates are constantly doing. Perhaps this isn’t so important when this stuff can now be done in a cubicle with intranet and and pdf files. But it was VERY important when humans had to physically and properly produce everything and hand-carry it into a courtroom.
