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Friday, January 16, 2004
Just how lazy can people get?
At work if someone says that there is a piece of birthday cake waiting for you down the hall, people will drop everything and, in a cloud of dust, they are on their way to get a plateful of sugary calories. But if a little effort is needed to accomplish a task, no one wants to play.I was in a meeting this morning with some people and they told me they wanted the web page to order the entries in a certain way. Naturally, I just had to ask why they preferred that way. I was expecting to hear a logical reason for their request. But I was greeted with logic that I’ve never heard before and probably never hear again, at least I hope not.
“Let’s order the entries by putting the latest entry at the top of the web page.” That sounded reasonable enough until I heard the reason behind it. “We want it that way because if we put the newest entry on the bottom we’ll have to scroll all the way down to the end of the page.”
So here I am thinking. The appointed time to go home arrives, you can fire a cannon in the building and no one will get hurt. They run for a piece of cake. They run to participate in spreading gossip about who has been hired and fired. But ask them to hold the left mouse button for three to four seconds, and you are almost asking for a grievance to be file against you.
These probably are the same people who complain about gaining weight around the holidays and can’t figure out why. They are probably the same people who get ticked off because the morning newspaper didn’t arrive at the exact spot on their porch. And these are probably the same people that use the treadmill as a giant hanger.
If they had to scroll down to the bottom of a page to read about Ryan and Trista’s wedding, you’d bet they would do that. So how ‘bout it folks, put your index finger on the left mouse button, you are looking at the screen anyway and you’ll probably find time to screw off during the day anyway.
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