Via Printers
You know what I don’t understand? Almost every (office) printer now takes a full ream of paper. Why do people only put part of a ream in the printer and leave the rest for later?
Things I tripped over on my way to the internet
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Tagged as “work”
Is there anything worse than watching someone type and click that does not use keyboard shortcuts?
- her: I just have to select this 2000 line spreadsheet... [tries to select it all with her mouse]
- me: Control A.
- her: [still trying to select it all with her mouse]
- me: Control A to select all.
- her: [still trying to select it all with her mouse]
- me: Seriously, this is going to take for ever to select all that... You can just type Control A.
- her: Oh, look it goes a little faster if you jiggle the mouse cursor around at the bottom.
- me: [head hits table]
- her: Are you ok?
- me: You didn't let go of the mouse button, did you?
- her: I heard a thud
- me: Control A.
- rodmitch: I don't lol at work very often, but . . .
That Little Red Light
I’d like to change my work voicemail message so it says “This is Lauren Farmer. I’m obviously not here and I will not listen to your message, so please call me back later. OR, better yet, email me!”
I’ve seriously considered doing this also. I hate retrieving voicemails more than there is any rational explanation for. I don’t really mind on my cell phone but I hate it on my desk phone.
Here is my solution. Sometimes I forward my desk phone to GrandCentral and get voicemails in my email where I can listen to them from my computer. I wish I could answer my phone at my desk but have it forward to GC if I don’t answer it.
Via
“This has been a long, long week. No idea why, but four-day weeks drag and grate.”
“It’s funny, but there is a tendency for the person who ‘started something’ to be perceived as ‘the leader’. People will bend over backwards to not ‘step on your toes’, concerned about ‘messing up plans’ and so forth. You can use this to your advantage if you are more concerned about control, or you will need to get other people join you so you can delegate power to them.”
“It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also something of a man.”
THEODORE PARKER via DailyLit
The Do-Nothing Effect
Your job, where you likely spend the largest amount of your awake day, should be a place that encourages you to try new things. Your employer should be encouraging you to look at a problem in a new way, encouraging you to read about the new “it” thing in your field, encouraging you to try something new, and they should be rewarding those people who help themselves (and by extension, the company) this way.
If your employer isn’t encouraging you to grow intellectually, they’re encouraging you to stagnate, inside and outside of the office.
Good stuff.
Smashing The Clock »
from cubicle17:
At most companies, going AWOL during daylight hours would be grounds for a pink slip. Not at Best Buy. The nation’s leading electronics retailer has embarked on a radical—if risky—experiment to transform a culture once known for killer hours and herd-riding bosses. The endeavor, called ROWE, for “results-only work environment,” seeks to demolish decades-old business dogma that equates physical presence with productivity. The goal at Best Buy is to judge performance on output instead of hours.
This is the kind of work environment I sit up at night thinking about, and hopefully someday I can speak about it first-hand.
I can dream about this but I don’t believe I’ll ever experience it, sadly.
Via cubicle 17
Beautiful Code
“I find it immensely helpful to work on the assumption that I am too stupid to get things right. This leads me to conservatively use what has already been shown to work, to cautiously test out new ideas before committing to them, and above all to prize simplicity.” —Jonathan Edwards (no, not that one) (via)
(via Quote of the Week)
