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Busy? Heck No, Just Bored.

It seems the mainstay of American jobs is for everyone to look so busy they don't have time to do anything. Yes, at the jobs I've had, everyone else was always so "very busy," so swamped, so short-handed, etc. Work was always at "the bottom of the pile somewhere." Emails sent weeks ago were never opened "because the mailbox was full." Phone calls never returned because "there's no time."

Well I can honestly say in all the jobs I've had, and I've had a shitload, the only job I was busy in was the fast food manager job. And even at that job I wasn't so busy that work never got done.

No, in fact at most of my jobs I was bored after the first hour. That is probably because unlike my busy bee coworkers, I automated my job from day one and refused to reinvent the wheel for every little thing that came up. Most people just stumble from task to task, not realizing that they are wasting time doing the same mistakes over and over.

In fact at my last interview (where I should receive my rejection notice soon - thank god), I told the people that from the job description they were giving me, I wouldn't have enough work to fill two hours out of the day, and would be very bored. They kept saying that there was more than enough work. But seriously, there wasn't. I told them that that may be true if nothing was automated, but once I automated everything, maybe 20 minutes out of my day would accomplish all the rest of the tasks. I think they were offended by my comments. Oh well, that's ok, I just can't handle yet another boring job.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but no one should be so constantly "busy" in the workplace, that nothing gets done. It just shows a lack of job planning and time management. Just my view on things.

Napoleon

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Oh yes
Submitted by nacho_bitch on Sat, 07/15/2006 - 01:33.

I love how the people I work with are SLAMMED all the time so they can't possibly do this or that....yet when I look at the numbers, I've done twice the work that they did, and I still had time to sneak in some illegal job searching on the internet and fax a resume or two, maybe even some mindless playing on myspace.

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yes, my personal fave
Submitted by tune_girl on Sun, 07/16/2006 - 06:54.

my boss has an entire monologue that she recites to us all whenever they ask her to do something.

"i'm doing THIS and i'm doing THAT and that's another thing they've put on my plate!"

But I see her. She'll take a big stack of paperwork, drop it off on my desk, usually after she asks me to do something else that she finds pressing, and then obviously go back to her desk to surf the internet all afternoon.

but yeah, it is a weapon. it's one of those things she pulls out of the magic hat when she wants to butter you up so you'll do something or she's just tired of dealing with their shit.

and yeah, i've gotten the same way. my coworkers complain about things that i guess maybe i should do something about, but i go "uh-huh" and keep on surfing.

technically, my boss is the boss, right? they should go to her if they want something done, so i've pretty much cast myself in the role of Agony Aunt.

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