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We are rarely swamped with work in my group since there aren't enough QA people to get everything tested on our short release cycles. Since they're the bottleneck, it severely limits the amount of work I can do. I finish my coding assignments within a couple of days and twiddle my thumbs for hours on end. No, really. I'm bored s***less. I'm looking for another job out of pure boredom.
This happens all the time in corporate accounting in my experience. People will say theyre swamped, dick around for 6 hours of the day, then the day the project or whatever is due they will panic.
I find this especially in doctors' offices. It can take as long as half a hour just to get someone to answer the phone, then they're always giggling, like they were interrupted in the middle of some joke. I've NEVER in my life been seen on time, the usual, standard wait for any appointment, even the first of the day, is 20-30 min, but you can hear them back there yakking.....Check-in and check-out you feel like you're interrupting something, as they continue to ***, and sometimes you have to interrupt their conversations to get them to do their job Try getting anything accomplished, like RX refills, insurance forms filled out, billing errors corrected, and the standard answer is "they're so busy" Busy doing what?
I've learned long ago to block off the entire morning or afternoon for a doctor's appointment, after all, the patient isn't the priority! Its a power kick, they know you're stuck there with your health issues and will wait as long as necessary, you're not going anywhere
Being the supervisor of a union shop for a while I noticed a weird phenomenon that had me questioning what "lazy" really was. The union pressman would find an hour worth of little, useless, totally unnecessary chores that "had" to be done in an effort to get out of a real 20 minute job. So what is lazy? The actual effort you put forth or a state of mind?
In one office where I worked, sometimes the boss would give the project managers a task that needed to be done by a deadline. The project managers then would give it to their assistants to type up and format it. My boss would often hand it to me the day before or early in the day it was due.
The other bosses would give it to their assistants in plenty of time to complete it before the end of the day. While I was working on it, the other assistants would be socializing all day long until an hour before the end of the work day. Then they would be frantically trying to put it all together. Not only that, they would announce to anyone in the area just how swamped they were. Some even complained in a staff meeting how no one offered to help them! My boss and I knew it was directed at me. Seriously, why should I offer to help them when they deliberately wasted their day socializing?
"I'm completely swamped with work for the rest of the month"
but they come in late, spend most of their time in meetings or socializing with other coworkers, then leave early.
A lot of people think they are always busy and the hardest working person in the office. Probably about 60-70% of people think that way.
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