Sounds like a government operation!
hehe. I've been there, done that kind of thing.
I once had a job entering parametric data on electronic parts (transistors, resistors, etc...) into an HP9000 running some godawful home grown piece of crap database. On the entry screen, if you mistyped a field and hit enter, you had to clear the whole screen and start over. It took about 5 to 10 minutes to enter a part IF you got everything right.
So I wrote a simple program to hold the data for me and provide easy entry. then I just fed the output to the database with a copy command. I went from 30 to 40 parts per day to about 300.
I was only doing it part time as it paid $7.50 an hour, and I was consulting at $75 an hour elsewhere for about 10 hours a week.
The engineer in charge demanded I go to full time so HIS project could be finished a month early. I refused, so they let me go. I graciously agreed to train the new guy, who couldn't figure out how to run the simple program I had and import data, so it was back to the old 4 parts entered per hour.
A month later they cancelled the project. I would have been done in two more months, but at the rate the new guy was going, it was looking like over a year.
Ever read "The Dilbert Principle"? It's absolutely true, they DO promote idiots to prevent them from causing too much damage.
