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Probably typical .... At my CPOE the support staff say they still
want one typewriter, since it's the best tool for one or a few
form-filling-out jobs.
unless of course you substitute "one or a few" with "many" ...
Not very important, I guess, but -- huh? I'm not understanding
your point.
suppose you had to fill several dozens of forms, or worse several
hundreds (happened recently at my workplace).
they give you a bunch of paper forms, then you have to fill them, with
data that is stored digitally somewhere, or that you have to firstly
store for later usage (maybe some more forms are on the way).
see?
*Oh* .... All is clear now; thanks.
I *think* -- though I could be wrong -- that the typical use case
for our support staff involves, hm, I'm not sure what the term is,
but the physical form is not a single sheet of paper but a stack
of sheets, such that writing/typing on the top sheet results in
the writing/typing being copied onto the other sheets as well.
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as far as i know, even banks abandoned multicopy (carbon copy) forms
long ago. the birth of the laser printer rendered them obsolete, don't
you think? they are a remnant of a time when secretaries had to use them
to reduce typing time of copies and xeroxes were not available.
Obsolete or not, they are still in use for some things at my CPOE;
a few weeks ago I had a task that involved filling out about a
dozen of them, with a lot of information repeated on all of them,
and indeed it was very tedious [*]. I think this particular
aspect of the CPOE is in transition -- it was pretty much all
done with paper forms when I was hired, and over the years more
has transitioned to being done electronically, but the transition
is apparently not complete. I would guess that there might be
other workplaces in which similar situations exist. Possibly
it's more common in smaller organizations.
[*] Then again, this task was only necessary because I had made a
mistake that could have been avoided with better planning (details
not interesting enough to type up), and it made more work not
only for me but for a colleague, and I figured that maybe the
tedium was deserved ....
(Sorry about the long digression here, folks. Maybe we're done
now, though?)
