Sara: Calculate: time to go to and back from the telephone TIMES an average number of calls/day = HOURS walking to take care of phone calls, and that time substract it from 8 hours/day and calculate the PRODUCTIVITY reduction you (and you boss) are going to have because not having a phone near you. Costs are important, but productivity is even more important. René J.
--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Breeden, Sara <sbree...@nmda.nmsu.edu> wrote: From: Breeden, Sara <sbree...@nmda.nmsu.edu> Subject: [Histonet] Lab Telephone To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 3:48 PM I'm having a challenge wrapping my head around this one: my boss wants to know why I need a telephone in my new lab in the new building we're moving into in January. Part of this is cost (what isn't a cost issue these days??) but I am to come up with justification for having a telephone IN the lab. The new phones will be cordless but he wants the phone to be in the hallway for what he deems a safety issue (I am not a BSL3 lab). The new phone system will be individual lines for specific locations within our facility. I'm the only tech and I'll have a 22x22' lab and the adjoining (with separate entrance) storage room/volatile storage and I will be doing specimen cut-in in another area altogether. I know I've left out some salient points so if you need more info AND if you have some logical input, please ANSWER offline to me directly. I can't figure out why I would NOT need a telephone... egad! I was asked how many calls (in/out) I make/receive per month as a basis for the decision. OMG. Sally Breeden, HT(ASCP) NM Dept. of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostic Services PO Box 4700 Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-841-2576 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
