Work longer, not harder

[muckefuck]

Four days after switching to a new system at work, people seem to finally be calming down. I have to cut my nearest neighbour some slack since she was out for two days (with a root canal, no less) and so is technically on Day 2 of the new regime rather than Day 4. Still, a little less talking back to the screen would be nice. For the first time, though, my last remaining direct report hasn't come to me a half-dozen times half-panicked about some quirk of the system.

So far, it seems like we've lost more than we've gained--but it almost always seems that way, doesn't it? I'm holding out hope for new efficiencies which we simply haven't discovered yet. But so far, I've only been able to eliminate one step from a procedure whereas everywhere else what took one keystroke now takes anywhere from two to five.