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- Bill Reid's Situational Aggregate Pay, Version 1.0 for Windows95
- Copyright Bill Reid, September 1996
- breid@ebicom.net
- http://www.ebicom.net/~breid
-
- What is it?
-
- An amusing little way to help yourself feel better about your earning potential.
-
- Requirements:
-
- The standard Visual Basic runtime files, available from several net locations
- and not included in this archive to minimize size.
-
- Description:
-
- This is a "More Fun in Concept" product, meaning that it's probably good for a
- couple of laughs before you get annoyed with it and delete it. It's not meant
- to be a real problem solver, it's just for fun. So please no e-mails asking me
- to increase the timing resolution to milliseconds or anything - if you're having
- that much fun with it you should really be getting back to work...
-
- -Concept--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Unhappy with your current job? Do you feel like your talents are going unnoticed?
- Are you being paid less than you're worth? Do you often make comments to the tune
- of "I could have any job I wanted in this town if...". Well, I won't give you a job,
- but I will give you a concept and an app to help you utilize it!
-
- Well, lately everyone's working extra hours for relatively small salary increases.
- Sadly, it's to the point that you can't even complain about working overtime because
- the guy in the next office has put in 20 more hours a week than you! Fortunately,
- nature has kept us all from turning into raving lunatics by providing us with and
- giving us a business justification for THE INTERNET - the world's most potent and
- engaging timewaster around!
-
- So, as many of you in the corporate world have an internet connection to goof off on,
- it's not a far stretch to recognize that we're not all furiously pursuing the company
- goals during the time period we're being paid! As a matter of fact, if you compared
- the hours you actually spent accomplishing company goals to the amount on your pay stub,
- you might find that for all intents and purposes that you're getting paid pretty well!
-
- And so, Situational Aggregate Pay (or SAP) comes into play. SAP is a time tracker that
- installs as an icon in your Windows95 system tray. By double-clicking on the icon you
- can alternately "log yourself on" when you're actually doing your job and "log yourself
- off" when you're goofing around. You input your base per hour pay rate and periodically
- you can check the status and see how much you're actually being paid per hour for what
- you're doing!
-
- To further examine the math (it's not terribly complex!):
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- Your SAP pay rate = Your "official" pay rate * hours you have been at work
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- the hours you've actually been working
-
- So, when you're feeling underpaid, underutilized or generally rightsized, consult the
- status of your SAP and feel better!
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- Program operation:
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- The program icon should appear on the tray. A red light by the brain means you're "off
- the clock", a green light means you're actually working on company stuff. Double click
- the icon to change status.
-
- Right clicking gives you options to check your status, input your "official" pay rate
- and to exit.
-
- Not real complex.
-
-
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- Licence:
-
- This program is offered as freeware for non-commercial uses. This means that
- although I retain the copyright to this program, you are free to use and distribute
- it without making payment of any sort to me as long as you're just using it for your
- own personal enjoyment and not to fulfill the goals of a business or business venture.
- You are also not licensed to resell the product by itself or as part of a larger package.
- This is because while I enjoy sharing my creations with others who can use them, if
- anyone gets paid for the use of this program it should be me :)
-
- I would appreciate your comments by email. Email is cheap enough that it
- won't inconvenience you and I'd just like to know how many people actually
- got some use out of this program.
-
- Also, I basically did this in an hour or two for fun. If enough of you somehow get
- hooked on this blasted thing, let me know and we'll work up some enhancements like
- histograms and the like. Your suggestions welcome.
-
- Support Policy:
-
- As I receive no payment for this program, I guarantee no support of any
- kind. You may send questions via email, and I will attempt to answer
- them at my leisure, but use of this program in no way guarantees technical
- support of any kind.
-
- Disclaimer:
-
- I do not guarantee (expressly or implied) that this program is suitable for
- your use or free from bugs. Every effort has been made to properly test it
- for my own use, but this is not to be seen as a statement of quality. You
- use this program at your own risk; I will not be held responsible for any
- losses incurred as a direct or indirect result of using this program.
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