ACUP Comes to Minneapolis
Some signs that there might be a "tiger lurking nearby," Ray Chambers noted, are:
- You get a new VP with a history of outsourcing.
- Your boss brings in a consultant.
- People with clipboards and measuring tapes start dropping in.
- Complaints about your service are followed by customers moving to off-campus vendors.
- Long-time customers are leaving.
- You have excess idle time.
- People start ignoring your messages and omitting you from meetings.
Pay attention to signs like these, Chambers warned. If you can, find the master plan for your university and make sure your space isn't earmarked for something other than your in-plant. And above all, if you're running at a loss, fix it, he said, even if no one seems to care.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
