Mainly because fast and wrong is still wrong. Similar to the old: haste makes waste.
The problem is psychopaths are driven to leadership and they’re not actually good at anything.
Basically their ego tells them that they’re pareto people when they’re really not and society can’t tell the difference. Mostly they just steal labor. And they’re too stupid and insecure to identify and empower the most efficient people.
Wtf does that have to do with the post
Just reminded me what Pareto Principle was and now I have business school PTSD. Thanks.
It actually might be a fundamental principal of the universe like the Fibunnacci sequence. It shows up everywhere, there’s a great old vsauce episode on it.
When I was a kid, I noticed that I was consistently finishing My work early, so I asked the teacher for the next lesson’s work. I wanted to speed through the entire year’s coursework and finish early so I could have an extended summer.
Teacher said no, but I got My wish in the end. I got to skip an entire year of school. Didn’t get any more summer, though.
Always did my homework on Friday night. Another girl on the bus would start her homework two periods before school ended and also finished on the bus ride home.
I did that, but on the ride to school.
I used to sleep in my accounting class. Another student got offended and was like why doesn’t he just skip? My teacher said he comes in, gets straight As, he can take a nap if he likes.
See I use to do the same in history but I got an F. Loser
This was me in world history and chemistry. I napped and got woken up if no one else had the answer in the former, woke up after the lab was explained (that was just regurgitating what was in the lab sheets) then did the lab in the latter
This was me in highschool, I was so bored of the pace we were going at, so I skipped a lot of classes, came in and aced tests, not with the correct answers they were looking for, but still correct. 🤣
This was me including the AP classes. Then I got accepted to a really good engineering school and got my ass handed to me because I never developed proper study skills.
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I had a teacher who said the same bullshit. But she also fucking sucked at her job. She taught typing and computer literacy but did not actually know how to use a computer and just hated every student that knew more than her.
I see you also had Mrs. Anz for computer class.
My first grade teacher criticized me for not cutting straight enough on some time waster paper piecing project we were doing. Sorry for not having perfect motor control, I’m 6??
Damn does your family still remind you of it 30 years later and are you me?
6? You were a year behind already! ;)
Where’s that behind? In the US 5 year olds go to kindergarten, and 6 year olds to 1st grade. Sorry if some joke is wooshing me lol
Depends on the birthday cutoff. My daughter will be a 6yo kindergartner for most of it because she’ll be five for the first few months of the school year
This used to be my mentality in regards to work for the majority of my early twenties. Turns out pretty much every job out there will give you more work to do if you are too efficient. Eventually it reaches a point where you have too much on your plate and start getting burned out fairly quickly yet you’ve set the bar so high that anything less than maximum efficiency is considered lazy.
My new method is to work at 50%-70% efficiency while at work and I take my time on everything I’m asked to do. I’ve worked my ass off for about a decade at various jobs and was only rewarded with more work. I’ll save my efficiency for the things I actually care about in my life.
I have a coworker that is currently in the situation I was in five years ago. He’s working late every single day and barely has any time for personal business because he worked too hard at the beginning to “climb the ladder” that he’s now overworked and miserable as more things keep getting piled on top. I was talking to him the other day and he was saying that he started working on the weekends because he has so much shit he has to do.
I used to try to smash through everything as quick as I could. I would’ve told you I was just quick and efficient but I think the reality was I was usually tired or hungover or daydreaming about whatever thing and just didn’t have the attention span to do a good job.
I’ve been self employed for the last 10 years or so, which means extra efficiency on my part doesn’t reward anyone else.
However, during that time I’ve become a lot more methodical and diligent. I am consistently accurate. Basically because I need to own any oversights, which can be very costly, I make far fewer.
Do just enough work to avoid getting fired.
Act your wage is the rule I usually go with
I actually started getting more recognition when I started producing 60-70 % or less instead of 120 %. It was like management thought that, if my tasks took longer, it was probably because I was very thorough and the task was very difficult, even though the end result would be the same. If I solved a task in 1 day, instead of 5 days, they regarded the task as easy instead of me being good. The slower i worked, the more applause I got from my manager… But, he was also an idiot… But, i wouldn’t be surprised if this was a pattern in other companies as well.
My mental model is somewhat orthogonal to this, 100% efficiency by definition is the most I can sustainably do indefinitely. I can probably do 150% if I really need to, but not for very long at all, and I’m usually between 85-105%.
If I’m doing ~30 hours a week of work I’ve been asked to do, or needs to get done, and doing 8-10 hours a week of whatever I think is important to prioritize, I’m probably in a pretty good place. I don’t tend to get overly rewarded with more work, and I’m still recognized as doing valuable and important stuff by my teammates.
If someone is doing way more than 40 hours in a week on more than a very rare occasion, some layer of management has failed, and if it’s the norm, the whole system has failed. I’m well aware that may be working as designed, but I would contend it was simply designed to fail.
Exactly! Employers and managers typically won’t know either, unless they are micromanagers who track your every move. If this was a start up and doing more will have a big impact, then putting in more effort is justified. Med/large company? Nahhh
I learned that lesson in high school. Always more tasks if you finish any
Quick ≠ good
Quick ≠ bad
Tell that to your wife
Yeah but if the work were bad, she probably would’ve included that in the criticism, because it’s a way better criticism
People often frame themselves the hero
People often argue using bad assumptions.
A teacher once said to me, for acting antisocial: “if you keep pushing people away: one day, they’ll just leave you alone”
I wasn’t doing it for attention. I’m very glad to be largely left alone now. It’s great.
Are you sure you don’t mean asocial?
Depends on how pissed off I was that day…
“Antisocial” doesn’t mean “introverted”
Yeah like I’ve never actually had enough of this solitude people kept threatening me with
Out of curiosity, how old are you now?
I would also be completely confused and offended for the rest of my life if a teacher had said something like that to me
I was grateful that my teachers were chill with this
I’d finish my math work while the teacher was still explaining it to the class, and just start reading a book. Teacher was fine with it because I was a good student and got good grades.
Rant incoming
Although I do have one particular gripe with that teacher unrelated to any of that. Question was how far was a person in a pool from the life guard on a life guard tower. I found the hypotenuse, moved on to other questions. Got marked wrong so I brought it up to the teacher, and her explanation was that she wanted the distance from the person to the tower (the BOTTOM of the tower???) under the logic that you wouldn’t just float on up in a straight line to the life guard. First of all, the question was specifically worded as distance from person to life guard, NOT travel distance. Secondly to the BOTTOM of the life guard tower??? You wanted that value, not even the added distance of the length to the bottom of the tower and the length to climb the tower???
If you asked me how far away a plane in the sky is from me, and I answered 5 feet, I’d look like a damn idiot.
I kind of wish I pushed her on that question harder. I kind of just thought “good lord she’s out of her mind” and sat back down because it had little to no impact on my grade. But I have lived years being pissed about getting that question wrong, I simply cannot move on from it.
don’t worry random-internet-person, I just graded your answer and found that you were correct and that other person grading you was wrong.
so you know, you can move on now?
Similar rant. In the second grade our teacher (FUCK YOU MRS MURRY) had drawn the orbit of the Earth around the sun and was telling us that because it was elliptical and that’s why we had summer; the Earth was closer to the sun and the sun was warm.
She basically drew an oval on the chalkboard and put the sun smack in the center. It didn’t make any sense to me so I kept asking why there weren’t two summers in a year if an orbit was a year and the earth passed close the sun twice…
It wasn’t until the 3rd or 4th grade when I got a hold of an illustrated astronomy book that showed our titled planet and explained the seasons.
omg it’s not just wrong it’s doubly wrong 😭. why was she allowed to teach
Could be worse. I once received a Saturday detention for “defiance” because I pointed out a mistake the teacher had made on an algebra problem.
Contempt of
copteacher
In 2nd grade I decided one day to just complete my entire 2nd grade math book because it was easy for me at the time. Their solution was to force me to go into a third grade class for math but I quit because it meant I lost one of my recesses and thought that was bullshit. Honestly, surprised no one followed up and forced me to go back at any point. I just stopped going and no one said anything.
I just found out this weekend the the algebraic (super easy) shortcut to divide an integer by a fraction that I showed my son - was referred to as ‘cheating’ by the teacher, who said the people who grade the SATs would mark him down for that.
I’m actually quite confused about that.
Ha! I worked in Test Prep and College Admissions consultation for nearly a decade at a fairly prestigious company in a major city with major private schools (major money and major lineage/legacy) and unless there have been major changes to the SAT/ACT since the pandemic that teacher is completely full of shit. There isn’t even a guessing penalty anymore on the SAT let alone any way for them to know how a student comes to the answers they choose. You don’t have to even turn in your work when you turn in the test.
Sounds like the teacher felt stupid or threatened or both and made up nonsense to combat their own failing. And honestly, I would consider giving bad advice that could impact a student’s future malpractice. That was actually the standard for teaching algebra when I was in school so a teacher telling your kid it is cheating is beyond confusing. It’s borderline abusive and at the very least completely incompetent.
That was a poorly worded question, and a not so bright teacher. I’d be pissed too
This could be a nice lesson about the taxicab metric and the Euclidean metric, but that doesn’t seem like the intention.
Reminds me of one of my elementary school English teachers. We were all given a blank hardcover book and had to make a story with illustrations. Mine was called “The Loose Kitty”. Every page basically had the kitty on the loose in different areas of a city, running into other animals that had some rhyming. I spent so much time with the art, proofing it, etc. This teacher took hard red ink and strikes through loose and put “lost” ON EVERY PAGE. I tried to tell her no it is loose because EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK related to being “on the loose”. Nope. Got like a C- on that thing.
Am I still sour about it 30 years later? Yes, I still loose my shit.
You were writing a picture book for kids, so it’s important to communicate clearly. It should have been titled “Kitty on the Loose”, to teach kids the correct version of the phrase. The kitty isn’t loose, it’s on the loose. The former is an unconventional grammar construction that small children don’t need to learn to navigate. Save those Shakespearen grammar innovations for adult stories.
to be fair she probably understood the concept of a kitten on the loose, but wanted to nudge you away from filling your book with innuendo without having to explain the concept of an un-tight and/or readily available vagina
This one hurt for even me to read
What a bitch! I never thought the comments in this post would raise my blood pressure
Not all who wander are lost, bitch.
Sound’s like your an pour loster.
Its because teachers hate the idea that a smart student isn’t enthusiastic about the topic they’re teaching and that they’d do clearly what is their bare minimum and then mentally drop out. Its insecurity.
I had a ton of teachers like this.
My music teacher was pretty angry that I clearly only picked the subject because I didn’t want to take art or PE.
I wasn’t there due to any passion for it, did the absolute minimum, and the only way it’s affected my life is that I keep thinking about how annoyed he was.
Well, music is kind of a team sport, I’d be pissed if one of the percussionists could never hit the damn triangle at the right time.
Eh, that’s the system so I can’t fault you. But specialty electives like that usually have limited seats - your seat may have displaced someone much more enthralled with the subject.
Also I guarantee they sucked at it and made everyone else sound worse by association. Childhood visual art classes are way easier than music anyway, it doesn’t even have to look like anything. It’s extremely obvious when someone doesn’t know what they’re doing in a music class.
I had a similar problem.
Once, in school, i did all my homework fast. We had a week to do it, i handed it in after a day only. The teacher saw that, thought i’m very interested or that they give us too little homework, and then increased homework for me and everyone else. I learned not to do things quickly. It will only backfire.
This is the way.
Don’t procrastinate the work…just procrastinate the turn-in.
This way, you can feign being busy and be done at the same time! Nobody needs to know that you’re done. That means you can slack off right up until the last possible second, completely stress-free.
If you start showing your hand, they’re gonna start expecting more from you. And what will you get in return? Maybe an extra 0.5% on your raise? Nah brah. Keep it. 0.5% on 100k is $500/yr. Is less than $10/wk…after taxes, they barely bought you a coffee every week.
By all means…work at a medium pace while you’re new. Don’t want to get caught while you’re still green. But once you’re comfortable in a place…
Real life advice.
I go in a bit earlier than most coworkers and am super productive for the first few hours. Then I have lunch and coast. That’s my routine basically every day.
My HS football coach once called me the dumbest smart kid he’d ever met because I kept mixing up my assignments for each play. Highest GPA on the team…
Didn’t get my ADHD diagnosis until I was 39, lol
I’m “lazy” in that same way and I always bring it up when I’m asked what my strengths are in interviews. I don’t like doing unnecessary work. I will be the one automating tasks and finding more efficient ways to do things while other people are wasting their time doing it the long way, purely because I want to waste less time on it.
My professional burden has been saddled with people who want applause for taking twice as long to less than 50% of the same amount. And those numbers are probably generous.
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