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A modest proposal
Jul. 6th, 2004 09:14 pmSometimes I really do wonder what folks were thinking when they do things. I had an email waiting for me at work this morning. It was an RFP (request for proposal) from a part of the New York state gov't. Those aren't unusual things to get, but this is for something we hadn't heard anything about since like December and thought the state had scrapped the project. Well it's nice that they haven't, since it promises to be a big $ contract for whoever gets it.
The weird thing about it was that instead of sending it in a typical format, such as a Word or text document, or even a pdf file, they sent it as a tiff. An 18 megabyte tiff. Someone had typed in 287 pages of documents, and put 'em in one huge tiff file. It took about an hour for the poor lil laser printer to print the whole thing out. 'course plenty of other folk needed copies, so I made 2 sided copies from the 1 sided originals. Most of the 287 pages was stuff that really didn't need to be in an RFP to begin with. The actual RFP was 28 pages long. The remaining 259 were assorted apendices. Sheesh.
I actually had somewhere I was going with this, but I seem to have lost my train of thought. Ah well.
The weird thing about it was that instead of sending it in a typical format, such as a Word or text document, or even a pdf file, they sent it as a tiff. An 18 megabyte tiff. Someone had typed in 287 pages of documents, and put 'em in one huge tiff file. It took about an hour for the poor lil laser printer to print the whole thing out. 'course plenty of other folk needed copies, so I made 2 sided copies from the 1 sided originals. Most of the 287 pages was stuff that really didn't need to be in an RFP to begin with. The actual RFP was 28 pages long. The remaining 259 were assorted apendices. Sheesh.
I actually had somewhere I was going with this, but I seem to have lost my train of thought. Ah well.