the salaries of 3 programmers... who probably make over 60K a piece... (likely more)

So if your employees cost 50 bucks an hour, and there are a few thousand... you may be looking at 120-150K as a one time cost, where as the programmers cost you 180K+ every year.

Yeah, there could be savings there... or so a bean counter would figure. Of course the bean counter is not computing the cost of frustration by the employees when the software doesn't perform exactly like the "quick training" said it would.

Isn't amazing that the computer was supposed to "save us," and yet in the end may cost jobs, and the frustration factor certainly becomes an issue when people have to "learn computer" vice the other way around.