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Information Rage Coming Soon To an Office Near You

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-having-a-bad-day dept.

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."

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  1. TL;DR by fotoguzzi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't have time for all this.

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  2. Great excuse by Wonko+the+Sane · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's not our fault that we falsified 103,000 notarized documents, committing an act of perjury each time. It was information overload."

    1. Re:Great excuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      "I don't like being informed all the time. It gets in the way of making decisions."

      George W. Bush

  3. Re:I call shenanigans by srobert · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Oh, it's Australia by daremonai · · Score: 4, Funny
    The researchers calculated that the average Australian employee spends less than two-and-a-half days per week actually doing their job.

    I suspect the issue is more "Foster's overload" than "information overload."

  5. PC Load Letter? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the fuck does that mean?

  6. I, for one, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... welcome our new Information Overloads.

  7. He was a mild-mannered by Compaqt · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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