On 6/14/06, Lord Voldemort lordbishopvoldemort@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
If you're going to go that route, you should at least pay minimum wage. I rounded up to $10/hour in my estimate.
Of course I think you could probably get 5-10 people from the USF campus just by offering them free pizza and soda and telling them it's for a good cause. And more than 5 people is probably too much unless we're talking about a volume much greater than 1000. Those paper folding machines are an enormous time-saver, and just one inexpensive one probably isn't going to support more than 5 workers.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of a stipend in exchange for helping out a good cause (rather than an hourly wage... as I have found, that _sometimes_ leads to people dragging out the work). Or do pizza and soda with a small cash "prize" of like 25 bucks for the one who stuffs the most.
I'm not very familiar with minimum wage law, so I don't know whether or not calling it a stipend would work. I do hate minimum wage laws because of exactly this type of situation, though. And, unfortunately, Florida did just pass one recently.
I just ran by the Office Depot website and priced a few decent looking paper folders in the range of USD 150-1500 that fold between 1800 and 10,300 pages an hour. Just in case you cared. Although, my guess is that these could be found cheaper if you know who to go to (or have some connections) ;-) --LV
That price range sounds about right (a little on the high side, but not much). The thing you have to remember though is that these letters are almost surely going to be personalized. So if you plan on processing them first and then stuffing them later, you have to consider how you're going to maintain order.
As for connections, I live in Tampa and I *might* be able to borrow one of these for a couple days. Let me know when and if there are definite plans as to when this is going to be done.
These machines really are a time saver. Back when I was a volunteer firefighter we used to fold our donation request letters manually, and it took a *lot* longer.
Anthony