7,000+ sheets equals . . . a lot of reams of paper
on Rob Wootton (Zambia), 16/Mar/2012 13:32, 34 days ago
As we finally began preparing for the E-Mapping training there was sadly no time to save any trees and instead I experienced what seemed like endless hours of printing and photocopying. It had felt like that we had had weeks of waiting and then all of sudden the workshops were only days away. Mike and I did not quite reach panic or crisis mode but there was certainly too much running around due to little fault of our own. The main worry was discovering that the person responsible (to remain anonymous for now) for booking the accommodation had failed to do so, which meant the 120+ people were about to arrive with no beds or training venue booked. Of course we got around this though it should not have gone that far in the first place. My other memory of this week was the paper, which we would have handed over to the same anonymous individual but needless to say we did not trust him. This meant I spent all of today spread-eagled between a printer and the photocopier in the VSO office. As for all the training participants the list of documents was endless covering questionnaires, presentations, timelines, manuals and so on. Maybe Mike and I went a bit too far with the handouts but we wanted to make sure that the participants got everything that they would need. So now the training can be begin and for the record it was around 14 reams of paper that we used up.