that figures

part of me feels used, but then this is typical of our office.

we have a fancy faxserver (running gfi faxmaker 12) at work that is SORELY under utilized. we are barely scratching the surface of its capabilities, mostly because people at work are your stereotypical technophobes.

the idea of removing archaic technology (fax machines) and replacing it with new hotness tech scares the shit out of people at work. so it's always an uphill struggle.

so rewind a few months (like march) when i was approached about actually utilizing this new fangled tech. so several boring (and semi-pointless for me at the time) meetings, a plan was drawn up.

faxes would come in, CI would sort them and then pass them along to the appropriate team and support staff. for this, i set up a mailbox for each of our teams (~10) plus the 2 general boxes for each office. i then set the permissions and tested things and it all worked as advertised.

and then nothing.

on monday, i received an email that when i sat and analyzed it, realized that everything we had set up was going to waste, so i asked about it and sure enough, i got a reply confirming my analysis and a simplified revision.

and the worst part is the simplification should it get off the ground will make it harder for us to actually implement the original plan which itself was pretty simple.

so, those semi-pointless meetings i attended?

yeah. completely pointless.