http://blog.genynow.com/2009/10/slacker-innovative-words-matter/ Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.genynow.com/2009/10/slacker-innovative-words-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Albert Ciuksza Jr. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:03:52 +0000 http://blog.genynow.com/?p=114#comment-25 I couldn't agree more with this point. My boss and I had some early challenges because I would often look ways to automate very manual tasks. At one point, he actually called me lazy. I asked him how long it took him to do the task I was attempting to fix and he responded, "four hours." I asked him if he would rather spend four hours or 15 minutes on it and he said, "15 minutes." I then asked if he thought wanting to do the same work in 1/16th the time should be considered lazy or an effective use of time. He hasn't called me lazy since. I couldn’t agree more with this point.
My boss and I had some early challenges because I would often look ways to automate very manual tasks. At one point, he actually called me lazy. I asked him how long it took him to do the task I was attempting to fix and he responded, “four hours.” I asked him if he would rather spend four hours or 15 minutes on it and he said, “15 minutes.” I then asked if he thought wanting to do the same work in 1/16th the time should be considered lazy or an effective use of time. He hasn’t called me lazy since.

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