Work Thoughts

Anyone ever notice how much faster work goes when you're actually working?

Instead of thinking of all the things you could be doing instead of working, you're actually focused on something, and that makes time go by so much faster.

I wonder if young people would actually work if they were given responsibilities instead of tasks. When you're told to vacuum a room, you're counting off the time until you can be free from work. When you're told it's your responsibility that the room is clean, suddenly you take a personal interest in whether or not the room is clean, as opposed to an interest in looking like you're working for the duration of the hour that the job is supposed to take.

And what's with the excuses everyone gives for not working, and that they're commonly accepted excuses? Here are quite possibly the five most used excuses for poor work performance:
"It's Monday."
"It's Friday."
"It's Wednesday."
"It's Thursday."
"It's Tuesday."
I mean, really, what is that? There is no good day of the week to work. Just do it, or if you're fine with just appearing like you're working while getting paid by the hour, fine. The world would be a better place if people were paid by the volume of work accomplished, as opposed to by the hour. Either that, or, if it's a responsibility type job, like making sure all the traffic signals are operational in one city, just get a salary and work when you're needed instead of sitting at an office all day waiting to be needed.

I must admit to zoning out while staring at a monitor for up to 15 minutes at a time (in my defense, it's usually only 5 minutes). Thus, I've discovered for the first time in my life a use for chewing gum--it keeps you awake. I'm sorry, Mr. Bayer, if this means that my stomach is digesting without end--it's a small price to pay for putting in a half decent work performance.

And for one last thought, why does everyone dream of being rich, when it is impossible for that dream to be true for everyone? You cannot have a rich person without a poor person. (Thus, the critics state that communism brings equality by making everyone poor.) On that note, why are we trying to abolish global poverty? The only way to do that is to get rid of rich people.

So many questions. If you keep asking questions of a wall, it will eventually start answering them.