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- Evan Lauber
- 185 Rt. 206 Bldg 16 Suite 1
- Flanders, New Jersey 07836
- (201)584-8596
-
- Feb. 15, 1993
- To Whom It May Concern:
- Enclosed please find a copy of a spreadsheet that I have
- written entitled Scheduler; I updated it on 2/15/93. I have
- developed this spreadsheet to help make my job easier. I am
- a District Manager for a large company in New Jersey. I
- don't think there is a program on the market today that will
- meet the needs my product addresses. Scheduler will allow
- you to type in the hours that an employee works and it will
- automatically figure out the hours that they will incur for
- the week, it also figures out overtime, subtracts break
- times automatically, sums up the total hours for the
- district for each day, and for the week. This is a very
- valuable service. To help you see just how beneficial this
- is, try to calculate the number of hours an employee will
- have if he or she works Monday 10:00AM to 7:30PM, Tuesday
- 11:00AM to 8:30PM, Wednesday 9:30AM to 5:00PM, Thursday
- 9:15AM to 6:45PM, and Friday 8:00AM to 10:00PM. It will
- probably take you at least a few minutes to figure it out;
- did you deduct break times? Multiply how long it took you to
- figure that out by 10 to 100 employees many with different
- schedules, and the time needed to accurately sum up the
- total hours by department, store, district, by each day, or
- for the week, and you will soon come to appreciate this
- product! If you didn't get 45 hours you definitely need
- this product! In addition it also has a corporate calendar
- that will automatically set the date on the schedule
- correctly, the calendar has the current year, last year,
- next year, and the year after next. Furthermore it can be
- easily configured for any companies fiscal year. Besides
- saving the manager a lot of time (time is money)! when
- making a schedule, it makes it very easy to update the
- schedule when people are late, call in sick or need to
- switch their schedule with other employees. District
- Schedule also makes it very easy to cut hours and stay
- within your weekly hourly budget. If your budget is very
- strict you could even update the times' employees have
- worked after every day, to project your total District or
- Store Hours at the end of the week. There is also room for
- up to 7 employees in each store with up to 12 stores.There
- are three major versions to date two Quatro versions one has
- 8 stores and one has 10 stores, and One Lotus Version which
- supports upto 12 stores. You can also keep track of all of
- the employees phone numbers; the stores phone number, the
- direct line phone number, store address, and the Managers
- address, employees social security number. all of this on
- only one easy to read page. I have found this printout to be
- an invaluable asset; so much so that during the day I keep
- it with me at all times. I have also designed it so you can
- print out two different easy to read schedules, the first is
- a for your employees only and a second printout for your
- records. Scheduler also keeps track of employees birthdays,
- sales averages, dates tardy, dates absent, counceling
- records, and other notes you may want to keep.
- Since I have originally designed Scheduler for Quatro Pro
- and have spent much more time with Quatro the Quatro version
- has been revised much more, and should be bug free. the
- lotus version only has one bug that I could not fix. If you
- try to delete a time with the delete key it will change the
- format of the cell and delete any lines drawn around the
- cell. Therefore make sure you use the space bar to delete
- things in Lotus, If anyone can help me fix this bug I would
- be very grateful.
-
- Scheduler can also be easily adapted for a store manager to
- keep track of his employees by department, and then sum them
- up by day, department, and store. It can be adapted for
- more employees per store or department, and for more stores,
- or it can be made to be linked with other files if needed. I
- am sure that you will be interested in this product in some
- capacity I hope you will agree with me, and find this
- spreadsheet a worthy asset to any manager that has to make a
- schedule. Before I designed this program my schedules always
- ended up being updated, and altered with a lot of white
- out, I am sure you can imagine just how messy they became! I
- hope you will appreciate the neat print out and understand
- that if marketed it would become very useful especially to
- those managers who already use Quatro Pro, or use laptops.
-
- If you are interested in marketing this product or know
- someone who may be interested, in any capacity please
- contact me.
-
- Yours,
-
- Evan Lauber
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- Author
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- P.S.
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- Scheduler should load into those little computers like the
- Wizard or Atari Portfolio since they have lotus 123 in them!
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