How to find the time
I’m increasingly fascinated by the amount of time spent on entirely pointless tasks, especially as I move towards my 35th birthday and realise you just don’t get this time back….and it’s a finite resource!
As I move through the day I’m collecting my thoughts on how much of life is taken up with pointless and irrelevant time -
Metro ‘Next Tram Will be in XX minutes’, OK this is a reasonable waiting game….but come on guys, why does the clock have to count down in Microsoft minutes!
Forecasting – I’d like to have the Dictionary definition changed to ‘Pointess exercise in dreaming up random numbers so people with no real purpose can worry about them’
Pathetic use of email – If I’ve got something to tell them, I email/call them…I feel no urge to inform everyone else in company/UK/World! If I’m looking for an internal vacancy, I’ll check the job page on the intranet! I don’t care that the server will be going down on Sunday night at 11pm! Everyone should have their in/out email ratio checked every month…those with a major imbalance could be taken out the back and shot!
TV…sit there, looking at stuff, 4 hours gone by, time for bed….could have used that time for something useful
I have to end it there, I’ve got to sit in the planning software and tick loads of boxes and click submit over and over again…..so someone else can receive the information, tick loads of boxes and click on submit….so someone else can….
February 24th, 2009 at 10:51 am
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