N2EY wrote:

Perhaps the vanity call system stopped the simultaneous renewals.

It's that expensive, state-of-the-art data system they installed!

Reminds me of the time clocks where I work...Used to be that you
took a card, slid it into the clock, it "puched" your card, and you got
got paid for teh time you worked.

Now we have the KRONOS system (Reminds me of the science fiction
movie of the same name...stops across everything) If you "punch in"
one minute before your "block", they have to pay you for the previous
15 minute block. If you punch out one minute AFTER your "block", they
ahve to pay you for the next 15 minute increment.

Of course what's happening is that we have a cluster around the
clock. And people are in such a panic at the end of the shift that
stuff "get's done" just to get to the clock "on time".

Technology doesn't always solve problems (ie: record keeping for
the FCC) It more often than not creates more than it solves.
73

Steve, K4YZ