NJ Says No Soup Calendars For You

It really makes sense to get rid of them.. Just looking around on my desk I've got 4 calendars: My planner in MS Outlook, the calendar that is built into Windows, a paper planner calendar, and a Far Side calendar.

$180k here and there will add up nicely over the long-run.

Maybe they want the employees to use their computers for something other than blogging :)

I agree with Mike. It's a drop in the bucket but it's a start. I mean, geez, drop the $15 and buy your own calendar!

Oh snap, Pokey. It's about freakin' tiem.

I'd rather use my MS Outlook calendar and get rid of as much paper as I can.

Hear, hear.

We were spending $180,000 on calendars? WTF!

If it's anything like my office, in October someone comes around and asks you if you want a desk calendar. You say yes and after it arrives you continue to use your Outlook calendar for any actual appointments. By the time you remember to look at your desk calendar, it's 2 months behind.

I gave them up a long time ago.

GNM, I always thought of you as a Mac guy.

I mean, geez, drop the $15 and buy your own calendar!

Wait until the day after Christmas and you can get calendars half-off at Barnes & Noble. I've been doing that for years.

If you need a paper calendar go to www.calendarhome.com and print one.

So if they don't publish the May in Montclair directory and the Adult School brochure...can our taxes be reduced?

Becky,

My home computer is a Mac (with 2 calendars on it, too). But, my work PC is a Windows machine.

People still use PC's?

Prof - we can all agree about less paper and on ine calendars. This is an uncommon occurance here. I'm on your side with Apple but if that's left for another thread this one can remain neutral.

I collect calendars, jerseygurl. And take great pride in never paying full price even for the ones purchased before 12/31. I've had as many as 40+ up. It's like having a sort of rotating art gallery.

And it makes me very easy to buy for re Christmas presents.

The one given out annually by an Arabic restaurant I used to frequent in Paterson used tourism shots of Israel and Jersualem, but, ominously, always referred to the location as "Palestine."

Remember State employees (except at the highest levels) don't have blackberries or access to their work computers from home, so they can't access their Outlook calendar when they are out of the office. I'm not saying its such a hardship to print out the computer calendar (whether Outlook or something else), but by the same token, $180,000 is really not a lot of money for the entire state government to spend on calendars. State employees also can't get free anything without ethics issues and don't get reimbursed for things the way people do in the private sector. If they want to eliminate calendars for the politicians fine, (or even better the pension giveaways for the part-time political hacks) but the rest of the people (the ones who actually use these inmate-printed calendars)are trying to get a job done. It's really hard when they nickel and dime you like that.

An additional $14,000 will be saved next year when and if they get the okay from Corzine's office to no longer subsidize the purchase of abacuses. Or abaci. Whatever the plural of the word abacus happens to be.

An additional $14,000 will be saved next year when and if they get the okay from Corzine's office to no longer subsidize the purchase of abacuses. Or abaci. Whatever the plural of the word abacus happens to be.

In 2003 or 2004 Rutgers stopped printing and distributing its calendars and staff directories.

The old timers really bitched. But they grumbled over EVERY change at the university, like requesting payment for a $3 expense online, rather than filling out a 5 part carbon form, with a typewriter.

Let's get rid of the school calendars next. The Glen Ridge calendar is impossible to read anyway.

The only calendar you'll need is the Mayan. Time's running out, get one soon. Maybe there's a widget app.

Like a broken clock that gives correct time twice a day,the State is doing the right thing, but of course it should go further and eliminate paper altogether. Rainforests are being cut down so fast they are a major source of carbon emissions. We need to stop using paper altogether. The Post Office must refuse deliveries. There's no reason everything cannot be emailed. Poor people who cannot afford a PC and a printer should go to the local library for their needs. Newspapers and magazines are criminal enterprises for their support, albeit indirectly, of illegal logging. The public should--and ultimately will, I think--abandom them as hopelessly retrograde industries, like tobacco. We need to change our way of thinking about the world, and our place in it. Is there an afterlife? Perhaps heaven can be found in the forests of Borneo, where the trees are dying and the orangatangs are being driven out, like Adam and Eve from Paradise. What if God is an Orangutang? What then, indeed. God save our souls.

I believe the correct spelling is "organutan".

Unless you mean to ask, "What if God is an Orange Tang?"

Mathilda, again you have made my evening!!! I haven't laughed out-loud at the Baristanet for ages - thank you x

Following your theme directly, maybe instead of bibles in the 'Church of Ape', there should be lap tops at the pulpit and prayers downloaded on demand (not printed)...

"So if they don't publish the May in Montclair directory and the Adult School brochure...can our taxes be reduced?

Posted by whatever | July 24, 2008 7:14 PM "

NEITHER of thos calendars are paid for by the town- get your facts straight!

Well, the real reason that the state needed to buy calendars was that they already had the Official NJ State Workers' Holiday Schedule printed in, thus saving millions of person-hours in time that would have been spent updating calendards to include:

New Year's Day
Inauguration Day
Martin L. King Day
Groundhog Day
Valentine's Day
President's Day
Lincoln's Birthday
Washington's Birthday
Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
St. Patrick's Week
Spring Equinox
DST Begins
April Fool's Day
Palm Sunday
Good Friday
Passover
Easter Sunday
Admin Day (Formerly Secretary's Day)
Secretary's Day
National Day of Prayer
Mother's Day
Armed Forces Day
Memorial Day
Flag Day/Army Day
Father's Day
Juneteenth
Summer Solstice
Independence Day
Parents Day
Air Force Day
Coast Guard Day
Friendship Day
Labor Day
Grandparents Day
Constitution Day
Fall Equinox
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Columbus Day
Navy Day
Bosses' Day
Capos' Day
Sweetest Day
Mother-In-Law's Day
DST Ends
Halloween
Election Day
Marine Corps Day
Veteran's Day
Thanksgiving Day
Pearl Harbor Day
Hanukkah
Winter Solstice
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
Kwanzaa Week
New Year's Eve

Conan, I no longer work for the state but I plan to celebrate each of those holidays, nonetheless. Refresh my memory please. Juneteenth is, indeed celebrated from the eve of the 12th through the 19th, right?

Nice effort but 180,000 out of the state budget is really nothing. How about my friend who works for a state agency in Morristown and reports to me that a fleet of new SUVs (unecssary to begin with for this agency) were delivered, supposedly for pool use by the entire staff.
By day two, one of the senior members of the staff had one of them outfitted with her childrens' car seats and full of sippee boxes and cheerios. Oh and two others that the supervisor "couldn't find the keys for" either.
Then there is his cubicle mate, a man of a certain near retirement age who clocks in, reads a book for 8 hours and clocks out. Every day. 27 days to retirement for him!
So 180,000 saved in paper calendars doesn't impress me.

Juneteenth is, indeed celebrated from the eve of the 12th through the 19th, right?
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It's actually through June 20th. I throw an annual bash. It lasts for all those days. I'm still cleaning up.

We stopped getting desk calendars a few years ago.

The year they stopped distributing them, I bought my own from Staples. Two of my co-workers saw my desk calendar and said "Where'd you get it!". I said there were plenty in the supply room. They practically ran out of my office to go get one.

When they came back with puzzled looks on their faces I was pretty much incapacitated with mirth. God that was funny!

GNM,

I just switched to Mac at home, very excited! I still use a PC at work too, but I don't mind it so much because there's a whole IT department to help me if things go wrong.

I like both PCs and MACs. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.

Agreed!

"Both have their strengths & WEAKNESSES">> Yeah, the humans who operate them!..