Archive for January, 2012
Difference between application software & desktop productivity tool?
I’m not sure about that because DPTool enhances individual performance when some application softwares still can: Microsoft office.
Please make them simple for me to understand.Thank you!
"Application software" is a more general term that can apply to any computer programme that is intended for use by the end user. The term "System software" refers to programmes that make the operating system go, regardless of what you want to achieve.
The term "Desktop productivity software" usually refers to the set of user applications that do typical document authoring, editing, and preparation. Examples would be LibreOffice, OpenOffice, KOffice, and even Microsoft Office. Desktop productivity usually means word processing, spreadsheets, slide shows, simple drawings and illustrations. Even email and chat programmes can be included.
Reasons why working for my last employer sucked. Tell me what you think. Does anything sound familiar? :)?
Reasons why working for my last employer sucked
1)Owner was a salesman with a high school diploma and a bad tattoo. I graduated near the top of my class in International Business. If this guy can start and run a company why am I working for him? I should be working for myself.
2)Owner demands the impossible and is out of touch with operations and employee motivational factors.
3)Shifts people around to do 2 jobs for the price of one.
4)Small company with nothing to offer except horse and carrot promises, lip service and “big talk”. Promotion = Fancy title/name change. Except no raise for you sucker.
5)Using MS Office and MS Windows software from 2003! Still on Windows XP!
6)Computers, Printers, Networks ALWAYS crashing causing huge delays affecting service and productivity
7)Makes easy things difficult via hierarchy and people procedures. Too much fat for a small company.
8)Spent tens of thousands of dollars on horrible software without even so much as consulting the employees who are forced to use this terrible software every day. Yet claims his company is ‘different than all others’.
9)Ultra strict credit terms. Constantly harassing customers for payment everyday even over $10.00 one day past due.
10)Demands all billing 5 days out as priority over service. This increases downward pressure on already burdened employees. Out of touch with day to day operational factors.
11)No raise in 4 years for his best employee of a key office. Without her that branch office would not exist. Yet she is taken for granted and given no raise while employees come and go.
12)Horse and carrot shareholder scheme to motivate employees which he calls “executives” (in title only) with an illusion. There will be no retirement pay from this shareholder scheme whatsoever and the “executives” are fools for believing otherwise.
13)Company has absolutely nothing to offer which distinguishes them from their competitors.
14)Owner went out of his way to make sound running your own business difficult, unachievable, high, and mighty. “Corporate this” and “Corporate that”. Let me tell you something. There is not one damn thing my ex employer did that I could not do myself. A business is nothing but it’s clients and:
a) A piece of paper .
b) rented office
c) Faxes printer’s scanners computers etc (you can get these off Craigslist).
e) And finally CUSTOMERS and outsourced support (lawyers, CPA, etc). He always make is sound like running your own business was some kind of all powerful complicated thing you would need 50 million dollars to even think about starting.
Number 5 and 6 sound awfully familiar…. LOL…
You already know the answer… good for you to leave this trap behind and get out.