<HTML>In a message dated 2/1/02 3:54:37 PM Central Standard Time, vem@email.byu.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Question for you Wim: How can the numbers be accurate in your situation, i.e. 1.1 techs for your university's situation, when it's going to take you two years to get "caught up" (dream on)?  Sounds to me like the formula is not working for your situation. vince </BLOCKQUOTE> As far as catching up, that is my own time table. Even my department chairman has told me I am working way to hard, that I don't have to get all the pianos in shape in the next two years. (perhaps that is a pipe dream, who knows)? I used the formula as is was devised, and did the math. As Dave mentioned, the formula doesn't take into consideration outsourcing. I also don't think the formula takes into consideration someone like me, who comes into a situation like I did. The way I used the formula was what the needs of a situation would be under "normal" conditions, and under the guidelines as prescribed. Wim</HTML>