21 Apr
1999
21 Apr
'99
3:07 a.m.
At 11:18 PM 4/20/99 +1, you wrote:
Yes, but counting keystrokes is still a common metric even for
professional work. Martin Marietta still uses it to "evaluate" their
engineers. Been there, put up with that shit and glad I'm out of it!
Joe
> Believe
it or not, the most common use of keeping keystrokes was for
> employee evaluation. I remember weekly postings of graphs of
> "keystrokes/hour" in data entry and word processing departments, with a
> weekly "prize" [nominal value] for the "best" data entry
operator of the
> week.
Does it matter *which* keystrokes they are? In
particular, does backspace
count?
If a business activity doesn't have any
better metric than keystrokes,
is it even worth doing?
Never forgett thet there hav been jobs where just keying in
data is the goal (or are they still around) ?