South Bend Busy Work

At what point do you log "fix mistades made by co-worker for two hours," or something of the sort? While trying to make yourself look important, you've gone and thrown someone else to the wolves.

 

This just smacks of one of those management gimmicks that everyone will forget about in a couple of months, when, you know, people won't have time to fill out their logs, or editors won't have time to read them.

 

What is a "10 plan" ... (cringing, afraid of hearing the answer).

 

Charlie Weis must be behind this plan. Dumbass.

 

10 a.m. -- Worked smarter, not harder
11 a.m. -- Did less with more

etc, etc, etc.

 

Had to do this at a paper several years ago... we were being "optimized" to see how efficent we were.
Once the AME in charge of snooping sat down with me, I spent an hour on the phone returning calls...
and yeah, someone put went to the bathroom, deficated, wiped on their reports...

 

Exactly.

 

We had a thread on this two or so years ago that prompted one of the funniest posts I've read on this board. Hopefully someone can resurrect it, because it was one sample day-in-the-life that was chronicled brilliantly.

All I remember -- and I just started laughing at the memory of it -- was the constant ogling of the new intern that featured the line "masturbated like a zoo monkey."

 

I fix mistades made by others all the time.

It's one of my primary dooteys.

 

Oh . . . so the workday's now 6 1/2 hours, with the tail 1 1/2 hours to be devoted to this red tape?

Might not be the intent, but sure as hell should be the result.

 

I work in productivity improvement consulting. I help set up productivity reports and metrics -- mostly in financial services companies. This is one of the worst ways to track productivity I have ever seen.

I have never set up a productivity improvement system for reporters, but this is pretty much the last way I would try to do it. Productivity reporting should take no more than 5 minutes per day to produce -- otherwise any gains in productivity that might be achieved through reporting would be negated by the time spent producing the reports...

 

Bob Slydell: You see, what we're actually trying to do here is, we're trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work... so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.