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Information Rage Coming Soon To an Office Near You
digitaldc submitted the latest excuse to get a few days off: "A survey released this week revealed the latest affliction to hit white-collar workers. It's called 'information rage,' and almost one in two employees is affected by it. Overwhelmed by the torrent of data flooding corporate workplaces, many are near the breaking point.
The aftermath of all this is the deterioration in quality that occurs when flustered employees — unable to sort through a pile of information fast enough — end up submitting work that's substandard. Almost three quarters of the survey's respondents declared their work has suffered as a result."
I don't have time for all this.
Their they're doing there hair.
I've got all this work to do, and you're bothering me with THIS?!
"It's not our fault that we falsified 103,000 notarized documents, committing an act of perjury each time. It was information overload."
My co-workers can't see it in me either. That's because I mutter under my breath and keep it suppressed where it can fester into a mental illness.
I suspect the issue is more "Foster's overload" than "information overload."
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
In a related news flash, researchers recently discovered that a shocking 50% of workers had performance that measured below the median.
I am officially gone from
If any of my coworkers broke down and went into a savage fit of rage due to information overload, I would be ecstatic. The resulting incident would be YouTube gold. I'd have a great story to tell my nieces. My employer would start doing more to ensure that I was happy at work. In other words, this sounds like a big win! =)
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"... flustered employees -- unable to sort through a pile of information fast enough -- end up submitting work that's substandard. Almost three quarters of the survey's respondents declared their work has suffered as a result."
-- but they filled out the survey without any problems?
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What the fuck does that mean?
And these same people take 40% of their sick days on Mondays and Fridays. The bastards.
There's a lot of work to do, people get lazy, skip it, and submit things without properly checking everything
The way I think about it is that there's X work to do, Y time to do it in, Z amount of skills, and [A .. W] amount of information coming in. You can:
You could apply the 'Meh' principle to any of these.
... welcome our new Information Overloads.
accountant with horn-rimmed glasses. He didn't know how many pull-ups he could do because he had never done any.
He was overwhelmed with the deluge of information.
When he couldn't keep it in his cubicle any longer, he starting taking off his glasses on off-work hours, and resorted to drive-by Firesheeping, destruction of any and all HP printers flashing PC LOAD LETTER, and MITM attacks for kicks.
He was Info-Man.
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Back when I worked at Boeing (before desktop PCs), one of my mentors always had a pile of paper in his in-basket that often exceeded a height of one foot. I asked him how he dealt with all that crap. His answer: If someone calls about some subject covered by a memo, he'd dig it out of the pile. After dealing with it, it would go on top. Once a week, he'd grab a hand full of paper off the bottom of the pile and throw it away.
A kind of bubble sort algorithm, I guess.
Have gnu, will travel.
You know, it doesn't really matter. I, uh, I don't like my job. I don't
think I'm gonna go anymore. I don't know if I'll get fired, but I really don't like it so I'm not gonna go.
It won't matter much. I think Milton wants to set the building on fire. I think he'll probably do it.
I don't think I'd like another job. I never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'll do that
either. I want to take Joanna over at Chotchkie's out for dinner and then I wanna go to my apartment
and watch Kung Fu.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
David Allen talks about this in Getting Things Done
I bought that book about a year ago; haven't started it yet.
Ohhhh... BullSHIT. Total Bullshit.
Anybody working in IT knows that when we say we don't have enough time, most often we fucking mean it.
The problem is not how we use time, the problem is the goddamn Scotty Effect. Clueless project managers and executives just look at us and assume:
1) We are lying.
2) We are padding our time estimates to look good.
3) It's easier than what we are saying it is
4) IT are a bunch of whiny overpaid bitches and why have we not outsourced this to India yet?
5) We spend much of our day reading Slashdot.
that's the difference between a manager and a lead.
the manager is handed crap and breaks it into blobs and gives it to leads.
the lead takes the blob and breaks it into action items.
The line worker takes their action item and does them.
Lately business has decided it doesn't really need managers or leads.. with predictable results.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.