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I have aspired to laziness all my life.
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But too lazy to do what is needed to achieve it?
No, too energetic.
During one of my many annual performance reviews, I had one supervisor tell me I need to look “more busy.” My problem was that I tried to find the most effective way to get my assigned tasks and duties done so I’d be free to do other things, some job related, some not. He was a little miffed next time he walked by my cubicle and saw the sign “Look busy” pinned to the wall . . .
Just lie down until that goes away.
I have always held this opinion myself. And I practice it every day.
Agree with Heinlein
That’s a good response to a sadly misguided request. Now that we are all working from home, all one must do to look busy is to move the mouse on your work computer every 15 minutes or so.
If only she were a male, that could be my personal avatar. That’s been my philosophy of life for a few years.
I believe it was Bob the Dinosaur in Dilbert who said that given time most of your problems would go away. I’m pretty certain he’s right, the difficulty comes in discerning which problems will go away and which need to be fixed.
My dad always said “Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.”
There’s a utility to do that for you. MouseJiggle
So I suppose inheriting from my Mother a tendency to overthink and worry about many things isn’t so bad….
There you go. A lazy person delivering the goods for all of us!
I use it when I’m watching Plex, so the screen doesn’t turn off.
I may have used it in the past so Lync wouldn’t say I was inactive for a certain jerk client in Monterey Park…
Our cats would take care of that . . .
He is male. He’s just identifying as female for the comment . . .
Laziness is the mother of a lot of inventions
not all but a lot
I had one whose management style was to stare at you for fifteen minutes (open office plan) to see if you looked busy. He told me I was looking up too much, not staring head down in the case files. I told him it’s called “thinking.” We called him “Lee” behind his back because he looked like Lee Harvey Oswald.
A lazy boss is a good boss because he doesn’t micromanage and he hates meetings.
The use of “he” is an accident?
Private sector is mostly judged by output.
Government employees have no output. Do they even have input?
To sidetrack, I didn’t read the Lazarus Long series until my late 20s (no, I don’t know why).
By the time I got to Time Enough for Love, I was in Sydney.
That was one of my very first Amazon purchases (on my current account) and I had it shipped to a fraternity brother who was about to come visit, and he brought it to me.
I liked a lot of it, but the creepy fetishization of his mother was off-putting.
Especially the description of her nipples. Which was oddly descriptive.
Say what?
What.
I lived in Sydney from 1999-2002.
Thanks, Sydney.
Useful animals. Sometimes.
True. Many are just ground out.
I often find myself spending a lot of time building a good automated and/or efficient process and spend more time creating it than I save. But it’s the challenge!
I had forgotten that. I liked the story about the orphan he ends up marrying and building a new settlement across the mountains. And the one about the lazy guy, of course.