Wow, Jeri - sounds like your boss is my boss in disguise! He has a very real paranoia about failing in front of his superiors, but doesn't want to know about any ideas we may have to make our life easier. We've had no time to do anything but the most basic and important of tasks and his bad management has screwed that. Rather than admit he was wrong and that others have ideas too, he's rearranging the entire department.LTS