And for the techies........

Important Y2K stuff

MILLENNIUM YEAR APPLICATION SOFTWARE SYSTEM (MYASS)

We are currently building a data center that will contain all firm data
that is Year 2000 compliant. The program is referred to as the "Millennium
Year Application Software System" (MYASS).

Next Monday at 9:00 there will be a meeting in which I will show MYASS to
everyone. We will continue to hold demonstrations throughout the month so
that all employees will have an opportunity to get a good look at MYASS.

As for the status of the implementation of the program, I have not
addressed the networking aspects so currently only one person at a time can
use MYASS. This restriction will be removed after MYASS expands.

Several people are using the program already and have come to depend on
it. Just this morning I walked into a subordinate's office and was not
surprised to find that he had his nose buried in MYASS.

I've noticed that some of the less technical personnel are somewhat afraid
of MYASS. Just last week, when asked to enter some information into the
program, I had a secretary say to me "I'm a little nervous, I've never put
anything in MYASS before." I volunteered to help her through her first time
and when we were through she admitted that it was relatively painless and
she was actually looking forward to doing it again. She went so far as to
say that after using SAP AND Oracle, she was ready to kiss MYASS.

I know there are concerns over the virus that was found in MYASS upon
initial installation, but I am pleased to say the virus has been eliminated
and we were able to save MYASS. In the future, however, protection will be
required prior to entering MYASS. We planned this database to encompass all
information associated with the business.

So as you begin using the program, feel free to put anything you want into
MYASS. As MYASS grows larger, we envision a time when it will be
commonplace to walk by an office and see a manager hand a paper to an
employee and say "Here, stick this in MYASS".

This program has already demonstrated great benefit to the company during
recent OSHA and EPA audits. After requesting certain historical
data the agency representatives were amazed at how quickly we provided
the information. When asked how the numbers could be retrieved so
rapidly, our Environmental Manager proudly stated "Simple, I just pulled
them out of MYASS".