I've been promoted for being "diligent" and always being on schedule and I actually told my wife that the word diligent made me giggle inside because I'm lazy as all hell. It's always ok to cut corners if the outcome is the best possible result without unnecessary energy expenditure. Most of the time, procedure can be remade for efficiency's sake, all it takes is the will to see the flaws in it and change it.
so like mathematics, you can make the formula shorter and the answer will still be correct. Sometimes I don't even need a formula to find out the answer, but I'm forced to write my answer with a very complicated formula.
Sun_arti 023 I think I lost a lot of points on an exam because I used a different method to answer some questions (for the life of me I couldnt remember the formula but I remembered how to solve it nevertheless.)
@@sun_arti0238 i know right its annoying! I still remember theres a type of question that can be solved w a super simple method. But then my sister(who is teaching me) cant understand the method. And force me to use the normal formula which i never use and dont even know what the formula is.
i remembering being put in charge of a school bake-sale fundraiser to get better computers in school so I made my little sister and her friends pretend to be girl scouts raising money for breast cancer and nearly doubled the cost of the price the school set and paid the all the girls a cut after they bring in the quota's i gave them. I was doing incredibly well, especially when some of the girls tried to score more cash by giving out complimentary free hugs or kisses for anyone willing to buy more than 10 items at once. then i quickly passed my own goal for the fundraiser and it all went to hell because the girl became addicted to making money and suddenly they started forcing me to bake the cookies myself so they could keep the business going. i felt like a reverse pimp.
“Did he just shoot us with a paintball? What is this, honey?!? Idiot, that barely even hurt from that far awa-....holy shit there’s a bear coming towards us”
@Arch5tanton .. If you were really a lineman, you'd know that snow doesn't take down a power line. Ice buildup does. Just because there were a few flakes of snow on that ice buildup, doesn't mean it was the snow that's responsible. Besides, the most common cause of any power line coming down is trees, branches, and car crashes.
@@alexanderthompson7164 .. If you are talking about the small amount of snow that perches carefully on the wire, when it melts, it will drip off. In an ice storm, the weather conditions have to be just right. There has to be a temperature inversion where it is warm at high altitude and very cold at ground level. Then it has to rain at that high altitude. When the rain gets near the ground, it instantly freezes and attaches to anything it hits. An ice storm is also called freezing rain. It isn't called a blizzard.
My school makes us do these math/algebra things called IXL's and my friend just copied the questions and pasted them into an online Algebra calculator, pressed a button on what we were looking for, copy and paste the answer back into the thing, and copied the work, 99% right at all times . She saved me a lot of detentions. And it also helped me how to do the questions because the online calculator showed the steps. So it was a win win
For anyone wondering, Google _will_ do most of your homework for you. Just type "answer to" followed by the question in quotes, eg: Answer to "what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" The first result is almost always the answer, with work shown.
For algebra problems, WolframAlpha is the website to go. It can do pretty much anything math related, and will show you how. But i suppose that was the one you talked about.
We used some random calculator I don't remember the name of, and we had to get the grades to 80% or higher and we had to complete 80% of the assignments
Glad there are people out there like me. I will literally create algorithms in my head just so I don’t tap my phone more than necessary while playing Mahjong.
The guy who finished the Excel spreadsheet should've at least enjoyed a free day rather than telling his boss immediately. She'd still be impressed if he did it in a third of the time 😂
It’s complete bullshit. Bears are pretty much all in hibernation by the time the snow flies here in Canada. And one does not simply walk up and shake a power pole to knock snow off. If everyone didn’t realize by this point that the story was bogus I hope the part about a sniper with honey filled paintballs in a helicopter would have clues them in.
@@TheJoshuaFrey Obviously bullshit. I mean really? Honey filled paintballs? Everyone knows Canadians fill their paintballs with only the finest maple syrup.
When doing my statistics homework; I realized that if I used the Pie Chart graph in Statcrunch, it would give me both the probability (which also relative frequency) and the frequency. It was significantly faster then using the other function and had a nice visual representation. This shortcut allowed me more time on problems solved best by writing them out. Managed to score B's on my midterm and final exam. I should have told my professor so he could put it on list of Statcrunch functions shortcut he handed out before the final.
Kind of a bad quote tbh. You don't want to hire "lazy" people, you want to hire efficient people. I think there's a big difference there in terms of reliability.
If they are lazy they will be efficient, before you say "oh they just won't do anything", they would get fired then need to find another job, which is more effort. The two things go hand in hand.
@@vtironcomplete the problem is that if they're lazy they absolutely will get fired, and then you have to spend even more time finding someone who can do the work. If someone is efficient then they can afford to be lazy, but just because they're lazy doesn't mean they're efficient; if I'm feeling lazy about my homework then I will get in trouble, but that doesn't mean I'm going to do the work if I feel lazy, it just means that I know I'll get into trouble.
@@seandabest4329 Your parents signed you up for school. Your parents don't sign you up for a job. You have to do that on your own. Looking for a job, signing up, get hired, don't do the job, get fired, that's just being unemployed with a ton of extra steps. What kind of lazy bastards would go through all that extra steps just to end up lying around doing nothing like they've been doing in the first place? That's an idiot's strategy, not lazy.
What you're calling "laziness" is what I refer to as slothfulness, a truly lazy person will go out of their way to avoid creating more work for themselves and are actually quite diligent. Once they've gotten their responsibilities out of the way, they can laze about as long as others don't catch on and add more work to their workload.
Had a corporate recipe for breaded shrimp that required us to, one-by-one, flour>egg wash>bread>tray the shrimp. It would take about 15-20 minutes to bread 2lbs of the little bastages. That's all well and good, but when you need to bread 12-15lbs AND still have to prep and cook a bunch of other stuff, you can get just a wee bit stressed out. So what I ended up doing, was taking 12lbs of shrimp, and after letting them drain for a few minutes (whole I took care of something else) dredged the whole batch in flour, sifting out all the excess. I then tossed it all into the egg wash, making sure they were all coated before draining the excess egg wash. I could then take handfuls of the shrimp and toss them into the breading, using a dry, gloved hand to separate, coat, and tray the finished shrimp. What should have taken about 2-3 hours, was now a 20 minute job that gave me enough shrimp to last most busy weekends.
I macroed every damn thing in Final Fantasy XI and could grind with my eyes closed when I was in a traditional exp party (which I've heard isn't really a thing anymore). Backfired once leveling Ninja - party went from Lesser Colibri - a flamingo-parrot type of bird to Greater Colibri which is more parrot because they'll mimic magic cast at them. Magic including Ninjutsu. "Make him stop, make him stop!" ~ The Paladin getting blasted with elemental Ninjutsu because I'm 3/4 asleep.
A long time ago my mother was a teacher. She was switching classrooms with another teacher on the same floor and there was a lot of stuff to move, especially books. This was my job. They thought it would take all afternoon shutting loads from one room to the other. Instead, I took the overhead projector (which was in her room) and everything else off its tall, metal cart. I was able to pile about half of the books on it and haul it down to the other room. I unloaded it, reloaded with books from the other room and went back. Took me about 3 round trips for the books plus a few others for other items. It took about an hour. They were all amused by my solution and said it was not something that they would have thought of and so it would have taken all day.
Bears only hibernate if there is reduced food supply, thus necessitating the need to sleep and wait for increased food supply. There have been bears that have gone entire winters without hibernating, because food supply was still very high for them. But yes, for the most part, bears hibernate in the winter, because it is mostly during winter, that food is scarce.
Can that even happen, wouldn't the snow just start falling off the side? I live in Saskatchewan, so maybe our lines are stronger due to wind. I've never heard of snow causing lines to collapse, and have never seen anyone breaking up snow. Maybe the wind just blows it off. Could this happen in the territories if not for the bear thing?
@@irlclubsandwich7907 here in the southern U.S. there have been times our lines collapsed due to ice, the power company usually sends guys out shotguns and either birdshot or rocksalt rounds to clear the lines
I leaned in high school that 99% of my projects and essays I can do in only a few hours the day it's due when it takes everyone else weeks/months to finish and I *_STILL_* get one of if not *_THE_* highest grade in the class because I'm so detailed and have so much experience writing. I've actually had a teacher compliment my work saying that I clearly put a lot of work into it only for me to burst out laughing before admitting that I literally did everything in less than eight hours.
I worked at a summer camp where the kids were fed homestyle. Long story short we needed to make sure each table had 10 plates. Normally thete was one counselor and their group of 15 ish kids to gather and distribute 6 to 12 stacks 10 plates. I realized that the uniform plates sat perfectly stable on the treaded metal counters where one would get their food (they were literally designed to do so). The plates were literally right next to the treaded counters. So I would make one perfect stack, and bring over uncounted stacks of plates and match my perfect stack(s) in height until I had ebough stacks for all the tables. It was way easier and faster than counting out a dozen stacks of plates, which was helpful since that makes it easier for the 5th graders I'm managing to make it happen without and therefore easier to get other kids to do other stuff.
Coworker of mine kept forgetting to start or stop tracking his worktime. He's a lot better in programming and has a bunch more years of experience. But I wrote him a program that automatically calls the timetracking program and starts or stops the clock. He's grateful to this day.
I run a CNC machine to fabricate countertops. Every time i wanted to run a function (ex: running the warmup cycle or putting the suction pads away) i would have to backspace the old function and then type in the new function. I spent my breaks for a week learning how to code in MDA by translating the documentation from Italian to english and then writing my own code that could call up to 3 consecutive functions by changing a variable to a 1-3 digit number. Example: I type 123 and it runs warmup cycle, then the cycle that tells the machine that the pads are put away, and then it parks the spindle at the back of the machine.
I remember hearing about the honey snipers in Canada. It was really silly to hear that someone was loading a sniper rifle with honey filled paintballs to attract bears, only to realize it was just easier to downdraft all the snow away.
I literally had this happen the other day when a customer and co-workers saw me carrying absurd 6ft+ tall stacks of boxes 3 times. They said I am a hard worker, but I replied I'm actually just really lazy but efficient, and didn't want to make 20 trips. Sometimes you gotta work hard, so you don't gotta work hard.
My dad once told me to help him with rewriting documents , because they were in a format where u can't copy paste from then (PDF) , it was almost 7 pages and I wasn't in the mood at all . So I managed to find an app that lets you take a picture of the text and it immediately turns it into something you can copy and paste . This was 3 years ago and I still see my dad using it
I was working on rebuilding the workshop at the summer camp I go to. I mainly did work on the flooring, but some of the guys were setting up the roofing. At the end of each day, I had the task of taking a magnet and going around the floor picking up nails and screws. The magnet was a stick with a bar at the end, so I didn't have to bend too much. Genius idea popped into my head. Occasionally the guys would ask me for some nails or screws, so I had to get on a ladder and hand deliver them. However, with the magnet, all I needed to do was stick it in the bucket, hoist it up to them, and they would get the stuff they needed. No need to bend down or get up on a ladder. I work smart, not hard.
I’m the kind of lazy where if a job is difficult I’ll make a half hearted effort to find an easier way to do it, but give up if it doesn’t work. Or just put the job off.
Sven The Dog It’s petty laziness and sounds hilarious when the author doesn’t listen to the audio clips and there’s a mistake like “TeeEl-Doctor”. I truly appreciate regular Reddit readings.
@@konfu_ion Agreed 100%. Using the robot voice is so low effort, thats why youtube started demonitizing all these channels lmao. Also the robot voice just gets tiring to listen to after a while imo
The Carl Gauss story is really cool! You can also do that with a balanced set of Dungeons and Dragons dice, where the opposing sides would always add to the same number (examples; a balanced d6 would always have opposing sides add up to 7, and a balanced d20 would always have opposing sides adding up to 21). Pretty cool!
Meh. Most of these are just people who have some understanding of computers automating computer busy work, which does fit the title but is kind of a cop out i feel.
@@ajohnymous5699 Yes, it kind of is. But I feel it is a narrow focus on something that is also kind of not the point because they are not exactly creating inventive new processes to reduce their workload, they just know a bit of software/are more updated on technology than others at the workplace. As stated it does fit the title of the video but is a fringe example which comprises most of the entries which a) I think is a bit boring and having more variety would be better and b) why not make a video about people updating the technological process of the workplace and put these examples in there where they would be both a better fit and align better with audience expectations.
@@lewisroach8723 Yeah I know what you mean. After the first 2 instances I thought "I should learn to code" since Im not computer savvy but after the 5th time its like "Ok, so this is less about lazy people innovating as much as it is computer people using their skills to outpace boomers that don't bother using the tools around them because they're complicated." Like if I was given the prompt It would be "I would always do the homwork they handed in class during public school right then and there so I could sleep in class because I did tests, practice assignments and the homework so quickly while making A's that I would have extra time so I could nap in class. For group assignments I would do something simple yet brilliant. Senior year HS for Physics on the first day we had to build a structure with 4 sheets of paper, 4 paper clips and 2 dixie cups with bonus points awarded to the tallest structure that could stand in front of an industrial fan without collapsing. While every other group heard the "tallest" part I focused on the "that could stand part", made a small Eiffel tower that was shorter than a safety cone in 4 minutes while everyone else spent the entire class making the dumbest shit where they try to reach the ceiling but forgot the fan part. After everyone else tried their projects and saw theirs couldn't handle setting 1 on this fan (5 settings with 5 points awarded for each and the last one being 10 points) and everyone, including my own group chuckled at how small it was until the fan was on full blast and only pushed the structure to the end of the hall with it still standing. Got 130 points for my first assignment in HS Physics because my dad taught me about architecture/construction since I was 9, and a week before this class he showed me a video of a bridge that collapsed due to strong wind currents and how having holes throughout the next bridge fixed that by having a place for wind to go through rather than applying wind speed to a solid surface that couldn't handle it. TL;DR sped through schoolwork to get nap time during class, remembered some shit my dad taught me and got a 130 in physics class." Not quite as good as the helicopter/bear story but if you're someone in public school that likes the idea of napping in class or at home after school without worrying about HW then hearing about doing it in classes during free time sounds a lot smarter than waiting around for a bell to ring and wasting even more time. Time management isn't as impressive or innovative sounding, might even sound like working harder, but if the guy who worked 3 days to make an easier route to and from school gets a pass then I think this should count. Its a better lesson than hearing for the 5th time "lrn2code lol."
I'm a lazy student, and I'm good at math, so I typically find or learn a shortcut. So instead of doing a large equation in a bunch of small separate steps, I'll combine as many of the steps as I can and just do it all at once. It's a lot quicker to do 1+1+1=3 than 1+1=2 2+1=3. If you find enough tiny little shortcuts that remove simple/useless steps and combine what you can, it gets a lot easier.
i work at a spa complex and i was temporarily relocated to a different department due to covid19 and the bosses thought now that it wasnt their people doing the job this was the time to get everything done that was so shitty they wouldn't make their own do it. so i got tasked with sorting, numbering and arranging 340 sets of keys for these safety boxes which haven't been sorted out in years and most of them had 2-3 redundant ones or old useless ones and a lot of them were mixed up all over the place too. these boxes have 2 locks, a top and the bottom one, and i had to make sure there was exactly one key for each lock, put the one to the bottom lock on a single keyring while the top one i was to put on a keyring, put that on a rubber bracelet (since that one is given to the customer) and another keyring with a locket that would have the number of the safety box. then the spare pair of keys i was to put on another keyring and put the lot of them on one of those giant wire rings like in prisons in the movies, sorted by numbers. it was tedious and involved a lot of putting things on keyrings and taking things off of keyrings and keeping details and numbers in mind while you were doing something else, and on top of that, most of them had been sorted once before the exact opposite way so i had to undo that first. there was 3 of us taking shifts (this wasn't the main part of the job we were just tasked with it do do it "in the meantime" if we didn't have anything else to do) and they were expecting us to be done in the first 2 weeks. we all started out doing it sort of cluelessly and it took like 5 minutes to get one sorted because you had to constantly go back and forth between the boxes outside and the board where the keys hung inside and the desk where you could write the labels and you kept forgetting which one went to which lock and which ones you've tested already and which ones you needed and all and you usually had to take 4 things off of a ring and put 5 things on and they were all old rusted rings too and you would spend a solid minute tryna gey them open. then i started developing my own system because im lazy af and my brain is constantly tryna find ways to do things more effectively so i have to work less. i would always keep keys that went to the same lock in the same hand so i had no chance of confusing them. I'd check which ones needed new labels beforehand and pre-write them so i only had to press them on when i got to them. i found one specific type of small keyring that was perfect to open and force apart the old rusty ones. i'd open the ring and stack up the things i had to get off of it next to the ones i had to get onto it and did the whole thing in one step. i figured out the best order to do everything with as little dancing around as possible so my feet wouldn't hurt and i didn't lose time. it flowed so smooth at some point i realised i wasn't even looking at what I'm doing anymore. the work they thought would take weeks ended up taking 3 days. the other 2 colleagues couldn't figure out how i did it because they got 20 done in 1 and a half hours and i got done 60. i was down to a 2 keys/1min rate by the end of it. the only downside was my hands kept cramping for a week on afterwards and some of my gel mani chipped a little.
Back in basic the drill sergeants were running us through problem solving drills, (use these parts to get across this without leaving anything for your enemy) and they had monkey bars with rope tied under them as a "broken rope bridge". We had some 2x4 and needed to cross the monkey bars and rope using the 2x4. After looking at it for a second, i asked my drill sergeant "so this entire thing is the bridge correct drill sergeant" to which he said it was. After a 10 second huddle with my team of 6 we crawled on top of the monkey bars without touching the ropes hanging underneath it. Drill sergeant said we were the first people to ever think of that and he was proud. Made me feel good
My last job at a senior community, I worked three jobs there: front desk, prep cook, and server. When I served for breakfast, I had EVERYTHING but sanitation buckets pre-prepped, and since the residents wanted the same thing every day, I pre-wrote tickets too. That cut a lot of stress when it came to starting the day and cleaning up. Prep cooking, I prepped several sandwiches and salads (minus adding stuff that could make them soggy) ahead of time, so that way my work load was cut in half for several days. Finally, at the front desk, my boss literally wanted me to do a list of chores that had to be done at certain hours of the shift. Like, she literally wanted each lesson to write the morning schedules at 6PM, check the mail at 6:30PM, do rounds at 7:30PM, etc. I was like hell on, and during my 3:30-11:30 shifts I did ALL the work that required writing and cleaning within the span of 30 minutes, sometimes even less. I’m a fast typer, so always got that done fast. Then after that, I was mostly just chilling with some writing or drawing, and waiting on phone calls from residents or important meetings or whatever else. It was nice and quiet. Only thing was, I had to always look busy, because the boss didn’t like that work was done ahead of time.
Reading all this automated stuff, the first person to make a fully automated company off of this will blow completion out of the water. Cheap, because instead of paying a lot of people extra money, your just paying for a little bit. Maybe even be a company that manages several other companies data for cheap.
LOL! I did that before. I had this job where people spent 3 months and I could do it in 3 weeks while still spending time watching movies 2/3 of the working hours. I heard they got slower after I left and no one realised they could easily get the codes online. Oh well, not my problem.
I Do dishes at a fast food chain: standard three section dish sink. We are required to dip the dish in the sanitizer water after spraying the detergent off, and then set it on the rack to air dry. People would usually dunk it in sideways (Metal serving pan) and put it out, and shake the water out of the pan they basically just filled up with the sani, which made each dip take about 15-20 seconds. I found out that if i dip it halfway in and spin it counter-clockwise that the water would hit every surface and allow me to catch it by the other end empty, making the process take under 10 seconds instead. I am now one of the fastest dishwashers we have, and the other ones doesn't check to make sure they're clean.
I'm in IT support - I just make automated responses everytime I'm asked a new question (which, isn't often). I complete 5x the amount of tickets than the rest of my team in a week despite working one day less than everyone else. To top this off, I can get away with secretly only working 1/2 days since I appear very busy to management. The bonuses are $$$ and I spend the rest of my 1/2 day working a second job (and taking some online courses) while still getting paid hourly for the first one, spending only 32 hours per week on 2 jobs and school. This definitely came in clutch as I have to have 3 surgeries this year, oof
I'm intj. In my 1st job I was doing floormats for the restroom in commercial aircraft. So I noticed the same measurement to cut the mats comes out and about. So I just created a chart of all the dimensions for the parts, so I don't waste my time measuring them. Thus creating more efficient process. I quit after that because the pay sucks for $14/hr. I also convinced my boss in my 2nd job to get an actual haas cnc machine so we waste less times doing tool changes on retrofitted cnc manual mills and less of a clean up.
I do try looking at easy ways to do things, but really all I’m trying to judge is what’s the most efficient. Gotta balance the easiness with productivity and find a point where you’re exerting the least and producing the most result. Maybe it’s just because I’ve played Factorio for several years now, but that’s my outlook on completing tasks, and I think others should at least try it once.
One time, I was filling a giant box at work, with hundreds of packages. The box tore from the weight, and it needed to be delivered soon. I didn't want to put every item into ANOTHER box, so I seran wrapped the whole thing.
I work in a steel fabrication shop for building large raised structures for carports and solar panels. It's just to get myself through college. I cut the actual beams in an industrial saw. It is usually a very slow process. In a 10 hour shift, the average person may cut at most 10 to 12 beams a day. After using this machine for two years, I figured out there is a manual setting to change the force limit of the machine, because it was in a default setting for beams that are way above our steel grade, practically titanium. I fixed the problem, and cut it to 25 a day. Unfortunately, I work for a very...iffy company. So after I complete a week's amount of work in two or three days, they send me home with less money if I was just lazy. So yeah, I get payed less because I was more efficient.
9:45 The guy who writes manuals for his colleagues with screenshots etc that help them to help customers, I let my Apprentices do this. They are given access to raw files they can edit as they see fit and the same files are then used to teach future Apprentices how to do the work. At the end of the Apprentices time in my department, I check the changes against the previous version of the file and it goes towards the marks they receive. If they didn't make any changes then I've usually already noticed and had them write up a new manual for another job.
14:49 I have a suggestion for that. Finish the roll and instead of taking the empty roll downstairs, shove the empty roll into the new roll. So like take the empty cardboard roll, squish it a bit so it can fit in the cardboard bit of the new roll.
I'm in charge of reporting for my company. I noticed that the booking department and legal keeps coming to us to ask about contracts, which we would manually search with our heightened credentials. 90% of the messages in our it group are about that. I whip up a report which queried the database and returned the details they kept asking about with the info they had. No more questions and it actually improved their work. With a report I made in an hour. And that's just one example.
Worked at a call center that i hated. I have a speech and comprehension issue that constantly got me in trouble since they grade you on each call you make. If you added "a" in the middle of a sentence it was a point, mispronounced, it was 2 points. Unwanted pauses or if you paused too long, it was half a point. Insane amount of stuff like that. We got in trouble if we didnt dial the phone because they monitored you. So i would call, let it ring 6 times like ordered and then hang up. If someone answered i hang up. Did it for 4 months, 5-6 days a week for 8 hours. The system locked me out one day and i was fired for low stats on my survey calls.
Me! At my last job. We had to fill out paper sheets for reports on a daily basis. Eventually we'd run out and have to print more. I did not want to do that. So I created a google doc spreadsheet that let me and my coworkers do everything that was asked of us with the benefit of keeping an online file for it to help with social distancing. No more having to walk through the office to turn it in after work. Just save and go home.
Guy in my school have a brother older than him which told him the teachers habit of teaching and he got us a list of what is possibly going to be on every test. Just study what is needed, he literally studies 1 hr a week at home and aced all of his exam by observing the teachers habut.
tested out what my workplaces order gathering system does if i try to do something different than what we were told to do in different sections of the program... figured out if i need a new box bar-coded the system has a quick creation function that opts it as a box instead of me manually selecting that i need a new container and that it will be a box and scanning a new code and hitting it to the box and then dropping the item to the created box i can just *bleep* *bleep* a new code with the reader and it automatically creates a new box and drops the item in... saves about 5 seconds every time i need a new box for a product.... saves a few minutes each day per person and i told about it to everyone i like at work... not much saved each day but over all a significant time save between several people each year. customer returns used to require 30 taps to a tablet per product... figured out that i can with seven additional taps the first time i return a product i can substitute 9 taps with a single bar-code reader click from all returns of that specific product until the system changes and also that i can use 1 additional swipe and a tap to remove 9 taps of the tablet on every single product entry of a return after the first one... with cancelled orders i can use the same trick of 7 additional taps to replace those 9 taps with a single bar-code read and that works across each other so if i return a cancelled product xxx the next time i do a return or cancellation with said product i can just *bleep* it with the bar-code reader but the system has some differences and if a spot in the warehouse is missing its bar-code from the container (for example it was sticked to one of the boxes on the pallet instead of the pallet and the particular box has been gathered from it) what you would normally have to do is manually select map, select the right building, select the right aisle and its right side (you have to zoom otherwise you will click the wrong aisle even if you have small fingers) then hunt down the specific spot of the aisle and then select that spot and select the correct pallet code from the list it has on the spot... what i figured out was that you can just *bleep* the aisle spot code the storage racks have and then open the map it will open the map on the spot you need to select the correct pallet code instead of having to hunt down it from the whole warehouse complex map level saving a good 30 sec for each product. also figured out i dont have to select with a tap that i want to take a specific order from a list of orders i have completed and further tap again that i want to assign it a spot in our warehouse where its to wait till a customer picks it up but i can just read the bar-code and it automatically assumes i want to assign it a storage spot instead of giving it to a customer. doesn't sound all that much but had to once do a special combination job which while not related to any of those things directly used most of the tricks to speed it up caused my speed compared to the other guy doing the same job to be almost 4 times as fast even while i wasted some of my time to correct incorrect information about the product sizes and weights that in return would remove incorrectly added lines from similiar future special combination jobs while also improving the selection of suitable containers for individual gathering jobs and correcting the pricing on our shipping costs and customer billing of said freight...
I work for a family business run out of there house. They had me sort bottles based on diameter. One day I brought legos to work so I could do something on break. One week later, I got a bottle sorter. The family started me doing something similar again and again until their hole business is automated. Now they have me do inventory and repair the machines. TL;DR- Automated a familly business and moved up in their company.
If you're going to be lazy, atleast be smart, if you're gonna be dumb, atleast be strong, and if you're going to start a business, hire the both and make them work together
In my Social Studies class, we'd use Google Classroom and Google Docs. Our teacher would give us around 5 assignments a day, along with notes to do in a 1 hr and 15 min class. I got 5 people together, and everyone got one assignment while someone took notes. We got done halfway through class everyday and we watched UA-cam All day
The pizza chain I worked at (brimming on becoming nationwide) wanted to increase premium beer and dipping sauce sales. I value self esteem and appearance in employees. We had "counter girls" (cashiers who weren't dudes). I put the dips and premium drink on the bottom shelf. Once the customer realized that was how to make them bend over, premium alcohol and sauce sales went up like 300% in a month or so. The girls too average went up a good 30-50%. Easy to retain employees when they make good money and have fun 👍
haha okayy now this is my story: since quarantine started, my teachers would give us LOADS of assignments. we have a schedule for our classes. During maths class, my teacher will give us the assignment online where we will have to answer them in a paper and then send the picture of the work to my teacher (as evidence) and he will give us all the answers after that. So me, a lazy potato, would always go to google to search for a math calculator for certain topics. ( ex: algebra question --> I will search for "maths algebra calculator" online ) and I'll just copy down the answers and the calculations. My teachers and classmates doesn't know :)
In primary school, not that I was lazy, I just couldn't memorize all of the multiplication table. My kryptonite was 9x6 and 7x8 😂. I still get it wrong even though were already at multiplying 3 digits by 3 digits. After some experimenting, I discovered that if I doubled the odd number and multiplied it by half of the even number, the answer is still the same. Basically 18x3=9x6. I just used ratio and proportion w/o knowing it. That's how I survived math in elementary. 😂
This is the entire concept of the to show "the office" it's the reason their branch was always the best in the company despite being the most unpopulated and smallest region. The office was a great show
i work for a football team to sort equipment and give it to players which involves fitting them. because we have like four different brands of everything and they all size differently i just sort by measurement which is a lot simpler as most guys know that anyways. switched from like four attempts to one or two. saves work. unfortunately its more complex than "large, medium, small, ect" so management scraped it despite everyone else preferring it.
The right kind of person to hire is someone who is the right combination of "lazy" and "hardworking". That is, they want to get the job done, but don't want to spend a lot of time to get that job done. I ended up being one of those people once I finally developed a work ethic (mostly due to people dropping work on my desk and expecting me to do it). I automate as much as possible (though I am fairly computer illiterate, so I'm not like some of the people in the video). I reduce workload where possible. I look for the most efficient ways to do any and everything. I was given 16 tasks to be done by this other woman in the office because it was taking her all day to do them and leaving her no time at all for the actual job she'd been hired to do. I went through the list of tasks and just started classifying them. What was the goal of the task, how was the task executed? Similar tasks were grouped together. If they were similar in terms of execution, they could be rolled together. If they were similar in terms of goals, we could eliminate redundancies. In one month of learning these jobs and classifying them, I reduced 16 tasks down to 5 and the workload from 8 hours a day to just 3. Six months later, I further reduced this to 3 tasks and the workload down to 2 hours a day. A year and a half later, it is still 3 tasks, but the workload is down to 1 hour each day and every member of staff is trained how to do it so it never falls behind. I got so good at my job that I was spending more time managing employees than doing the job I'd been hired to do (Data Entry). I eventually became Supervisor and through the freedom of allowing me to actually work autonomously, I reduced workload across all my staff. That is to say, over a year ago we reduced workload so much that we had no work to do for 6 weeks and upper management had to assign us more work and more training to do just to keep us busy (the job we do never runs out of work. Ever. It never has before, and it didn't until I took over). As of COVID starting, I've even further reduced workload so even with the new tasks, we're back down to "minimal work" and very little to do. What does that mean? It means we're finally looking at reducing "Temp Staff" and we've been reducing their hours as a result of very little work. As a Supervisor, do you know what the longest task I have for the day is? Putting together the "Morning Report" which is about 45 minutes of gathering information from several dozen sources and putting it into an e-mail. After that, I just wander around and do "odd jobs" that need doing just to stay busy and not be bored. Many of those "odd jobs" are things I used to have my staff take care of, but I do them now just to allow them to do their jobs and so that I've got something to do. Even then, I still run out of work to do before noon. My staff is still out of work by 3:00 on most days.
@Ad Lockhorst It's often treated that way because people don't want to have to learn the processes and requirements of other departments and divisions. My department runs sort of the opposite of that. It is very much treated as "what do you need from us?" and we get to work supplying it. See, I've picked up a lot of information from a lot of other divisions in order to better serve them as well as ourselves. I know bits and pieces of everyone's jobs and all the way those jobs interact with ours. There's a value in that when providing services. It allows us to provide only the bare minimum product necessary for each division and then allows us to focus on our own duties. It keeps us from getting bogged down with a lot of extra unnecessary junk and complicated projects. The major advantage of being in the position of knowing all this extra stuff that most people wouldn't care about is that it allows my division to effectively control how the other divisions work. That is, we've become the axle and what we provide are the spokes. If we pull the spokes out, the wheel doesn't turn anymore. To put it into simple terms... My division is the most efficient, has the most documentation, has the most trained employees, and has the largest amount of "accountability" of anywhere in the entire office building. When anything major changes or is going to change, I'm brought in to consult on it and voice my concerns, issues, and questions. When my staff or division needs absolutely anything, they are taken seriously by any other member of management and we are typically given what we want, or very close to what we want. And none of that even stops me from consulting my employees. I'm not in the trenches with them every day. They are "on the front line" with everything we're working with, so I get a decent chunk of "most recent" information from them. When I rewrite training materials, they look them over. When I rework policy, they are asked for input. It is a group effort and is very much "us vs them". But, how else can you run the place when we're all about efficiency and doing as little as possible while everyone else spends all day scrambling and trying to complete their work in the 8 hours they have? We're done before the 8 hours are done because we're smart about how we work. I strive to ensure that we remain that smart about it. I don't know about anyone else, but that's the American Dream. Working not all that hard for a good paycheck. Running out of work by noon and still clocking 8 hours a day at $16 an hour sounds pretty good to me. Probably doesn't help that the place falls to pieces if I'm gone more than a few days in a row either. Nobody takes my "work hard to be lazy" approach as seriously as I do. Most people just like to play "Johnny Cut Corners".
@Ad Lockhorst For us, we do what our jobs are unless someone needs something from us. Then, they come to me and say, "I need X" and then I get it for them. We have a ton of information that I log and catalog and hold onto. Remember that I said me and my team are the most well documented in the entire division? There's a reason for that. Every single person in upper management knows to come to me first for most anything even tangentially related to what our jobs are. I usually have the information, the answer, or can deliver whatever they're asking for within an hour. In my experience, most management just aren't interested in learning what their employees do nor are they interested in learning what other sections of divisions are doing or are responsible for. They're the wrong kind of lazy. They're the kind that just wants to put forth no effort at all. But, that's typical of most management that is hired, because the people hiring management often don't know what they're meant to be looking for in management either. Basically, it's lazy people and incompetence.
I got task to copy hardcopy documents into softcopy Microsoft word documents. Instead of retype 1000+ pages, I scanned the pages, insert it to one note, copy its image words, and copy it to Microsoft Word. 4 days work turn into half day work. Turn in the work 1 day before due date
In my college days, we did a lot of data analysis and needed to compute 5 different formulae with hundreds of raw data. We were taught to do it without calculators nor spreadsheets. I, being a stubborn and lazy student, just search how to do it in spreadsheet. And just took me ~2 hrs. On the other hand, my classmates, really didn't sleep and continued doing it 'til afternoon. When I got there, in the school, they asked for my help because they were sleepy and tired. I finished all of their computation ~3hrs... They were pissed, annoyed, angry to the world, angry to our professor. 😅😅😅
12:55 I myself got to that solution aswell when I was in elementary school, but a bit differently. If you're adding all the numbers from 1 to a certain number, let's say 50, you just have to multiply said number for its "half + 0.5". So, adding all numbers from 1 to 50 is basically 50 x 25.5. Same thing for 100. 100 x 50.5. From 1 to 4? 4 x 2.5. And so on. Maths is the best form of entertainment when you are doing a repetitive job.
I figured out that decimals could be used to enter clock time on Excel sheets, and now I never have to worry about confusing AM and PM. My boss knows about this too, and she is okay with it.
Straight up got a desk job where I b had to do reports on goods and values and quantity and all that. Everyone else in the department was using hand calculators for all the number crunch but we turned in the report on excell.....so i just input all the data we needed and set a macro to tally sums and such. Took a litteral 8hr day of work for most of them and turned it into 2 to 4hr tops. All it got me was a pat on the back and used like a dog in other departments so those in mine could milk the clock
Yeah this is my current situation. I do my job which takes like maybe half a day to a full day and rest of week put an auto clicker to stay logged in due to system settings. Answer calls and emails when necessary but it’s been nice.
I have a great idea. I'm lazy to even type stuff so i would put a mic in front of a register and directly add stuff the customers say, not a big hack but it works
That one about the bears and the poles sounds like a bad idea, who the hell wants bears walking around the power lines looking for food? The helicopter is smart, wonder how much it costs in gas / upkeep
I had a job making deliveries to businesses around my town. My manager told me to just deliver going down the list, but I just installed an app and did the job in half the time. My manager made me work extra because I was such a valued employee.
Yeah, in my experience a lazy person will half-ass a hard job and end up breaking something, shove the work onto someone else or just flat up not do it and try to fake the reporting to show they did.
That kid who outsourced his chores is either gonna be a hell of a business man or towns best supplier
Firepots so basically buisiness god
Hey mate I get payed 20, bucks I'll give you 7 dallars if you complete 3/4 of my duties
Best businessman, best dealer, or both
M mmm yes I love to sniff doriti dust so u have a doriti dust dealer mmmmm yea 😳😳🥵
@@a1marine105 u dont say that u get paid or how much u get u just say how much theyll get
“Back in my day, I walked to school, uphill, both ways. So I moved the hill”
Over in soviet russia hill build you
Chuck Norris is that you
#sigmagrindset
Moral of the story: be a lazy human. Also learn to code
Done
@@LEGOlegendbawse Prepare to be successful Boii. Also pass me a taco
@Ad Lockhorst you are right. I learnt code by myself and a little support from school. Python and C++. Got two awards too.
Was gonna say, tldr: programmers.
I learned to code because im lazy. 10/10 would do again.
There is an old saying "work smart, not hard". These people aren't lazy, they're just smarter than you.
The one who leaves toilet paper for someone else to deal with is an asshole, not smart. It's the simplest trick in the book.
0xsergy that's not mutually exclusive, he's still apparently smarter than his gf if she hasn't caught on by that point.
@@rugalbernstein5913 Maybe she has, but figures, that having to deal with him over that again, is just too much effort
@@wernerbeinhart2320 or, she's just dumb and controlling
My brother taught me to be lazy. He always told me to find an easy way to get things done. Made my life a lot easier
Procrastinating until you absolutely have to do something is how I do it
Not a very good way lol
rttypebeats bit it gets done
Yup
the curse of being a perfeccionist procrastinator: absolutely outdoing the shit out of what you have to do.... but tomorrow
@@bloomy2121 Lol, me
I've been promoted for being "diligent" and always being on schedule and I actually told my wife that the word diligent made me giggle inside because I'm lazy as all hell. It's always ok to cut corners if the outcome is the best possible result without unnecessary energy expenditure. Most of the time, procedure can be remade for efficiency's sake, all it takes is the will to see the flaws in it and change it.
Procedures are made thinking about the Murphys law
so like mathematics, you can make the formula shorter and the answer will still be correct. Sometimes I don't even need a formula to find out the answer, but I'm forced to write my answer with a very complicated formula.
Sun_arti 023 I think I lost a lot of points on an exam because I used a different method to answer some questions (for the life of me I couldnt remember the formula but I remembered how to solve it nevertheless.)
@@Gloomysushiroll yeah,same.
@@sun_arti0238 i know right its annoying! I still remember theres a type of question that can be solved w a super simple method. But then my sister(who is teaching me) cant understand the method. And force me to use the normal formula which i never use and dont even know what the formula is.
i remembering being put in charge of a school bake-sale fundraiser to get better computers in school
so I made my little sister and her friends pretend to be girl scouts raising money for breast cancer and nearly doubled the cost of the price the school set and paid the all the girls a cut after they bring in the quota's i gave them.
I was doing incredibly well, especially when some of the girls tried to score more cash by giving out complimentary free hugs or kisses for anyone willing to buy more than 10 items at once.
then i quickly passed my own goal for the fundraiser and it all went to hell because the girl became addicted to making money and suddenly they started forcing me to bake the cookies myself so they could keep the business going.
i felt like a reverse pimp.
You are an unethical genius my friend
🧢🧢🧢🧢
What up G, that is the price of fame and glory.
So did you make more cookies or bitch out?
So, free hugs and kisses you say? 😏
Neftali Morales LMAO
Yo this Carl Friedrich Gauss guy is pretty smart, they should name a mathematics award after him or something.
I agree. In a way, he already had a award: the gauss rifle. (It's a railgun)
@@guy_autordie isnt it a coilgun and not railgun?
KillTheSource same thing,rain gun is made with coils,so it’s just a different name
His method of adding up the numbers is the classic example of the 'laziness' mathematicians look for when trying to solve difficult problems.
@@FooLoo_ Railgun has two parallel pieces of conductor (hence rail-), while coilgun has one (or a few) coils.
They're entirely different things
They called him “honey man” the deadliest sniper in all of America
North america
MrZsc both of the Americas
“Did he just shoot us with a paintball? What is this, honey?!? Idiot, that barely even hurt from that far awa-....holy shit there’s a bear coming towards us”
Honey Badger don’t give a shit
"Honeeeey, Im home!"
I love the progression of the snow on the poles story, how it went from getting a bear to do it to just using a helicopter.
Except that the whole story is BS. Snow doesn't take down power lines, and bears are hibernating in the winter.
E-Curb you clearly don’t live in a city where it snows lmao
@@Viqtor E-curb: "B-but those poles are obviously paid actors!"
@Arch5tanton .. If you were really a lineman, you'd know that snow doesn't take down a power line. Ice buildup does. Just because there were a few flakes of snow on that ice buildup, doesn't mean it was the snow that's responsible. Besides, the most common cause of any power line coming down is trees, branches, and car crashes.
@@alexanderthompson7164 .. If you are talking about the small amount of snow that perches carefully on the wire, when it melts, it will drip off.
In an ice storm, the weather conditions have to be just right. There has to be a temperature inversion where it is warm at high altitude and very cold at ground level. Then it has to rain at that high altitude. When the rain gets near the ground, it instantly freezes and attaches to anything it hits. An ice storm is also called freezing rain. It isn't called a blizzard.
My personal stats:
Smarts: 30
Strength:20
Defense: 50
Laziness: *1000*
@T_ C I wanted to give myself some self esteem :(
No it's over 9000
Here's Mine:
Sneak - 24
Cunning - 38
Dexterity - 54
Strength - 78 -> _96_ (+12 Bonus from 'Massive Frame' Physique Perk) (+2 Bonus from 'Sheer Focus' Ability) (+1 Bonus from 'Greater Destruction' Stat) (+3 Bonus from 'Greater Defense' Stat)
Destruction - 81
Defense - 72
Laziness - 46
Speed - 34
Agility - 48
Speech - 88 -> _100_ (+5 Bonus from 'Destructive Tongue' ability) (+5 Bonus from 'Charmer' Ability) (+2 Bonus from 'Silver Tongue' Ability)
Willpower - 60 -> _66_ (+2 Bonus from 'Sheer Focus' Ability) (+4 Bonus from 'Self-Control++' Ability)
Magic - 0 (No connection to a Source of Magic)
Perception - 45 -> _70_ (+12 Bonus from 'Advanced Foresight' Ability) (+2 Bonus from 'Sheer Focus' Ability) (+7 Bonus from 'Reaction-Time+++' Passive Buff) (+4 Bonus from 'Good Agility' Stat)
Smith-ing - 82 -> _86_ (+4 Bonus from 'Engineer' Trade Skill)
Constitution - 78 -> _91_ (+10 Bonus from 'Endurance+++' Perk) (+3 Bonus from 'Greater Defense' Stat)
@@Blurgamer17 here's mine
Stealth - 420
Cheeky - 69
Laziness - 420
Speed - 69
Agility - 0 -> 420 (+420 when dodging responsibility)
Willpower - 69 -> 0 (-69 when "nihilism" mode is on)
Humor - 420
Intelligence - 69
Physical awareness - 0 ( "autism" passive)
@@qwertyasdfg2219 sAme. Except turn the physical awareness stat to a negative 11 because I can be a bit of a klutz
My school makes us do these math/algebra things called IXL's and my friend just copied the questions and pasted them into an online Algebra calculator, pressed a button on what we were looking for, copy and paste the answer back into the thing, and copied the work, 99% right at all times . She saved me a lot of detentions. And it also helped me how to do the questions because the online calculator showed the steps. So it was a win win
Wait, detentions? Did I misread or are y'all getting detentions for wrong answers?
@@dutchvanderlinde248 prolly because they didn't pass any paperwork. There are teachers that don't accept papers unless they are finished.
For anyone wondering, Google _will_ do most of your homework for you. Just type "answer to" followed by the question in quotes, eg: Answer to "what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
The first result is almost always the answer, with work shown.
For algebra problems, WolframAlpha is the website to go. It can do pretty much anything math related, and will show you how. But i suppose that was the one you talked about.
We used some random calculator I don't remember the name of, and we had to get the grades to 80% or higher and we had to complete 80% of the assignments
TL;DR = TL, DOCTOR
CIDER = SEE EYE DEER
don't forget the pen 15
St Petersburg = Street Petersburg
Computer Jeek. (Jeek like jeep.)
Coworker=cow walker
One twenty four *ZERO ZERO ZERO*
Whoa, if you want to see true laziness, look at every tree around you.
Thats too much work 😩
I'm a tree
Trees aren't lazy, they just take hella years to make a move
@@redditbites7423 u gangsta till a tree drop a branch on you
@@Monochrome2004 Tree 1v1 me bro
Glad there are people out there like me. I will literally create algorithms in my head just so I don’t tap my phone more than necessary while playing Mahjong.
I'm striving to reach that level of skill.
Did you by any chance make Tron?
The guy who finished the Excel spreadsheet should've at least enjoyed a free day rather than telling his boss immediately.
She'd still be impressed if he did it in a third of the time 😂
Honestly. If you can finish a job in a fraction of the time, keep your mouth shut about it. Enjoy your freetime.
Is the bear one real? It genuinely sounds like something out of a cartoon lol
It’s complete bullshit. Bears are pretty much all in hibernation by the time the snow flies here in Canada. And one does not simply walk up and shake a power pole to knock snow off. If everyone didn’t realize by this point that the story was bogus I hope the part about a sniper with honey filled paintballs in a helicopter would have clues them in.
@@TheJoshuaFrey Its absolutely bollocks from the part that said Bears shook poles
@@TheJoshuaFrey Obviously bullshit. I mean really? Honey filled paintballs? Everyone knows Canadians fill their paintballs with only the finest maple syrup.
well that's Canada for you: they name their one- and two-dollar coins loonies and toonies, respectively...
Power poles don't move when you try to shake them. Even if you were a 400lb bear.
When doing my statistics homework; I realized that if I used the Pie Chart graph in Statcrunch, it would give me both the probability (which also relative frequency) and the frequency. It was significantly faster then using the other function and had a nice visual representation. This shortcut allowed me more time on problems solved best by writing them out. Managed to score B's on my midterm and final exam. I should have told my professor so he could put it on list of Statcrunch functions shortcut he handed out before the final.
12:20 This is actually the best explanation of Carl Friedrich Gauss's solving of the 1 thru 100 addition problem that I have heard of.
Kind of a bad quote tbh. You don't want to hire "lazy" people, you want to hire efficient people. I think there's a big difference there in terms of reliability.
If they are lazy they will be efficient, before you say "oh they just won't do anything", they would get fired then need to find another job, which is more effort. The two things go hand in hand.
@@vtironcomplete the problem is that if they're lazy they absolutely will get fired, and then you have to spend even more time finding someone who can do the work. If someone is efficient then they can afford to be lazy, but just because they're lazy doesn't mean they're efficient; if I'm feeling lazy about my homework then I will get in trouble, but that doesn't mean I'm going to do the work if I feel lazy, it just means that I know I'll get into trouble.
@@seandabest4329 Your parents signed you up for school. Your parents don't sign you up for a job. You have to do that on your own. Looking for a job, signing up, get hired, don't do the job, get fired, that's just being unemployed with a ton of extra steps. What kind of lazy bastards would go through all that extra steps just to end up lying around doing nothing like they've been doing in the first place? That's an idiot's strategy, not lazy.
@@lightning902 being lazy in a job/when looking for a job is pretty stupid, yes.
What you're calling "laziness" is what I refer to as slothfulness, a truly lazy person will go out of their way to avoid creating more work for themselves and are actually quite diligent. Once they've gotten their responsibilities out of the way, they can laze about as long as others don't catch on and add more work to their workload.
Had a corporate recipe for breaded shrimp that required us to, one-by-one, flour>egg wash>bread>tray the shrimp. It would take about 15-20 minutes to bread 2lbs of the little bastages. That's all well and good, but when you need to bread 12-15lbs AND still have to prep and cook a bunch of other stuff, you can get just a wee bit stressed out.
So what I ended up doing, was taking 12lbs of shrimp, and after letting them drain for a few minutes (whole I took care of something else) dredged the whole batch in flour, sifting out all the excess. I then tossed it all into the egg wash, making sure they were all coated before draining the excess egg wash. I could then take handfuls of the shrimp and toss them into the breading, using a dry, gloved hand to separate, coat, and tray the finished shrimp. What should have taken about 2-3 hours, was now a 20 minute job that gave me enough shrimp to last most busy weekends.
Don't you get a lot of excess flour/eggwash this way, that needs to be tossed in the trash after this?
I macroed every damn thing in Final Fantasy XI and could grind with my eyes closed when I was in a traditional exp party (which I've heard isn't really a thing anymore).
Backfired once leveling Ninja - party went from Lesser Colibri - a flamingo-parrot type of bird to Greater Colibri which is more parrot because they'll mimic magic cast at them. Magic including Ninjutsu.
"Make him stop, make him stop!" ~ The Paladin getting blasted with elemental Ninjutsu because I'm 3/4 asleep.
I haven't even watched the full video yet, but I know that it'll be interesting as heck.
I’m sorry but... *SALLY FACE?!*
My favorite game ever
"Efficiency is just clever laziness."
Echo, Rainbow Six Siege
A long time ago my mother was a teacher. She was switching classrooms with another teacher on the same floor and there was a lot of stuff to move, especially books. This was my job. They thought it would take all afternoon shutting loads from one room to the other. Instead, I took the overhead projector (which was in her room) and everything else off its tall, metal cart. I was able to pile about half of the books on it and haul it down to the other room. I unloaded it, reloaded with books from the other room and went back. Took me about 3 round trips for the books plus a few others for other items. It took about an hour.
They were all amused by my solution and said it was not something that they would have thought of and so it would have taken all day.
I call BS on the bear story, i am canadian and we all know bear hibernate in winter
Would've been plausible if it was Spring Thaw, but even then it's sketchy at best.
Bears only hibernate if there is reduced food supply, thus necessitating the need to sleep and wait for increased food supply. There have been bears that have gone entire winters without hibernating, because food supply was still very high for them.
But yes, for the most part, bears hibernate in the winter, because it is mostly during winter, that food is scarce.
Can that even happen, wouldn't the snow just start falling off the side? I live in Saskatchewan, so maybe our lines are stronger due to wind. I've never heard of snow causing lines to collapse, and have never seen anyone breaking up snow. Maybe the wind just blows it off. Could this happen in the territories if not for the bear thing?
@@irlclubsandwich7907 here in the southern U.S. there have been times our lines collapsed due to ice, the power company usually sends guys out shotguns and either birdshot or rocksalt rounds to clear the lines
@@irlclubsandwich7907 snow causes power lines to fail all the time.. or rather snow + ice. You haven't been in Canada very long, lol
Wait till the lazy guy procrastinates.
I swear the title of these reddit videos get longer everytime
Oh my goodness you're not wrong
my new year's resolution was no more computer reading reddit posts. and also stop posting on yt.
lost the game
like a japanese Light Novel's title
I leaned in high school that 99% of my projects and essays I can do in only a few hours the day it's due when it takes everyone else weeks/months to finish and I *_STILL_* get one of if not *_THE_* highest grade in the class because I'm so detailed and have so much experience writing. I've actually had a teacher compliment my work saying that I clearly put a lot of work into it only for me to burst out laughing before admitting that I literally did everything in less than eight hours.
this video convinced me that building afk farms in minecraft is always the way to go
I worked at a summer camp where the kids were fed homestyle. Long story short we needed to make sure each table had 10 plates. Normally thete was one counselor and their group of 15 ish kids to gather and distribute 6 to 12 stacks 10 plates.
I realized that the uniform plates sat perfectly stable on the treaded metal counters where one would get their food (they were literally designed to do so). The plates were literally right next to the treaded counters.
So I would make one perfect stack, and bring over uncounted stacks of plates and match my perfect stack(s) in height until I had ebough stacks for all the tables. It was way easier and faster than counting out a dozen stacks of plates, which was helpful since that makes it easier for the 5th graders I'm managing to make it happen without and therefore easier to get other kids to do other stuff.
Damn...this video made me realize how dumb I really am...I’m glad a lot of smart people exist, though!
Coworker of mine kept forgetting to start or stop tracking his worktime. He's a lot better in programming and has a bunch more years of experience. But I wrote him a program that automatically calls the timetracking program and starts or stops the clock. He's grateful to this day.
I run a CNC machine to fabricate countertops. Every time i wanted to run a function (ex: running the warmup cycle or putting the suction pads away) i would have to backspace the old function and then type in the new function.
I spent my breaks for a week learning how to code in MDA by translating the documentation from Italian to english and then writing my own code that could call up to 3 consecutive functions by changing a variable to a 1-3 digit number.
Example: I type 123 and it runs warmup cycle, then the cycle that tells the machine that the pads are put away, and then it parks the spindle at the back of the machine.
The pole shakers went from walking and shaking poles to _shooting honey from helicopter_
I remember hearing about the honey snipers in Canada. It was really silly to hear that someone was loading a sniper rifle with honey filled paintballs to attract bears, only to realize it was just easier to downdraft all the snow away.
Lol "Street Petersburg"
I literally had this happen the other day when a customer and co-workers saw me carrying absurd 6ft+ tall stacks of boxes 3 times. They said I am a hard worker, but I replied I'm actually just really lazy but efficient, and didn't want to make 20 trips. Sometimes you gotta work hard, so you don't gotta work hard.
My dad once told me to help him with rewriting documents , because they were in a format where u can't copy paste from then (PDF) , it was almost 7 pages and I wasn't in the mood at all . So I managed to find an app that lets you take a picture of the text and it immediately turns it into something you can copy and paste . This was 3 years ago and I still see my dad using it
I think all of us making reddit videos is a great example of this
I was working on rebuilding the workshop at the summer camp I go to. I mainly did work on the flooring, but some of the guys were setting up the roofing. At the end of each day, I had the task of taking a magnet and going around the floor picking up nails and screws. The magnet was a stick with a bar at the end, so I didn't have to bend too much.
Genius idea popped into my head. Occasionally the guys would ask me for some nails or screws, so I had to get on a ladder and hand deliver them. However, with the magnet, all I needed to do was stick it in the bucket, hoist it up to them, and they would get the stuff they needed. No need to bend down or get up on a ladder.
I work smart, not hard.
I’m the kind of lazy where if a job is difficult I’ll make a half hearted effort to find an easier way to do it, but give up if it doesn’t work. Or just put the job off.
creating these videos with a robot voice is ez pz, i hired a narrator for my vidsto make it a bit more of a challenge
Woah your channel is super underrated
Most people prefer the robot voice
The robot voice is the whole point
Sven The Dog It’s petty laziness and sounds hilarious when the author doesn’t listen to the audio clips and there’s a mistake like “TeeEl-Doctor”. I truly appreciate regular Reddit readings.
@@konfu_ion Agreed 100%. Using the robot voice is so low effort, thats why youtube started demonitizing all these channels lmao. Also the robot voice just gets tiring to listen to after a while imo
"If i can sit why stand, and if i can lie why sit"
The Carl Gauss story is really cool! You can also do that with a balanced set of Dungeons and Dragons dice, where the opposing sides would always add to the same number (examples; a balanced d6 would always have opposing sides add up to 7, and a balanced d20 would always have opposing sides adding up to 21).
Pretty cool!
Meh. Most of these are just people who have some understanding of computers automating computer busy work, which does fit the title but is kind of a cop out i feel.
Isn't that kind of the point?
@@ajohnymous5699 Yes, it kind of is. But I feel it is a narrow focus on something that is also kind of not the point because they are not exactly creating inventive new processes to reduce their workload, they just know a bit of software/are more updated on technology than others at the workplace. As stated it does fit the title of the video but is a fringe example which comprises most of the entries which a) I think is a bit boring and having more variety would be better and b) why not make a video about people updating the technological process of the workplace and put these examples in there where they would be both a better fit and align better with audience expectations.
@@lewisroach8723 Yeah I know what you mean. After the first 2 instances I thought "I should learn to code" since Im not computer savvy but after the 5th time its like "Ok, so this is less about lazy people innovating as much as it is computer people using their skills to outpace boomers that don't bother using the tools around them because they're complicated." Like if I was given the prompt It would be "I would always do the homwork they handed in class during public school right then and there so I could sleep in class because I did tests, practice assignments and the homework so quickly while making A's that I would have extra time so I could nap in class. For group assignments I would do something simple yet brilliant. Senior year HS for Physics on the first day we had to build a structure with 4 sheets of paper, 4 paper clips and 2 dixie cups with bonus points awarded to the tallest structure that could stand in front of an industrial fan without collapsing. While every other group heard the "tallest" part I focused on the "that could stand part", made a small Eiffel tower that was shorter than a safety cone in 4 minutes while everyone else spent the entire class making the dumbest shit where they try to reach the ceiling but forgot the fan part. After everyone else tried their projects and saw theirs couldn't handle setting 1 on this fan (5 settings with 5 points awarded for each and the last one being 10 points) and everyone, including my own group chuckled at how small it was until the fan was on full blast and only pushed the structure to the end of the hall with it still standing. Got 130 points for my first assignment in HS Physics because my dad taught me about architecture/construction since I was 9, and a week before this class he showed me a video of a bridge that collapsed due to strong wind currents and how having holes throughout the next bridge fixed that by having a place for wind to go through rather than applying wind speed to a solid surface that couldn't handle it.
TL;DR sped through schoolwork to get nap time during class, remembered some shit my dad taught me and got a 130 in physics class."
Not quite as good as the helicopter/bear story but if you're someone in public school that likes the idea of napping in class or at home after school without worrying about HW then hearing about doing it in classes during free time sounds a lot smarter than waiting around for a bell to ring and wasting even more time. Time management isn't as impressive or innovative sounding, might even sound like working harder, but if the guy who worked 3 days to make an easier route to and from school gets a pass then I think this should count. Its a better lesson than hearing for the 5th time "lrn2code lol."
This is not laziness, this is being efficient and being aware enough that getting a promotion isn't always worth it.
I'm a lazy student, and I'm good at math, so I typically find or learn a shortcut. So instead of doing a large equation in a bunch of small separate steps, I'll combine as many of the steps as I can and just do it all at once. It's a lot quicker to do 1+1+1=3 than 1+1=2 2+1=3. If you find enough tiny little shortcuts that remove simple/useless steps and combine what you can, it gets a lot easier.
i work at a spa complex and i was temporarily relocated to a different department due to covid19 and the bosses thought now that it wasnt their people doing the job this was the time to get everything done that was so shitty they wouldn't make their own do it.
so i got tasked with sorting, numbering and arranging 340 sets of keys for these safety boxes which haven't been sorted out in years and most of them had 2-3 redundant ones or old useless ones and a lot of them were mixed up all over the place too.
these boxes have 2 locks, a top and the bottom one, and i had to make sure there was exactly one key for each lock, put the one to the bottom lock on a single keyring while the top one i was to put on a keyring, put that on a rubber bracelet (since that one is given to the customer) and another keyring with a locket that would have the number of the safety box. then the spare pair of keys i was to put on another keyring and put the lot of them on one of those giant wire rings like in prisons in the movies, sorted by numbers.
it was tedious and involved a lot of putting things on keyrings and taking things off of keyrings and keeping details and numbers in mind while you were doing something else, and on top of that, most of them had been sorted once before the exact opposite way so i had to undo that first.
there was 3 of us taking shifts (this wasn't the main part of the job we were just tasked with it do do it "in the meantime" if we didn't have anything else to do) and they were expecting us to be done in the first 2 weeks.
we all started out doing it sort of cluelessly and it took like 5 minutes to get one sorted because you had to constantly go back and forth between the boxes outside and the board where the keys hung inside and the desk where you could write the labels and you kept forgetting which one went to which lock and which ones you've tested already and which ones you needed and all and you usually had to take 4 things off of a ring and put 5 things on and they were all old rusted rings too and you would spend a solid minute tryna gey them open.
then i started developing my own system because im lazy af and my brain is constantly tryna find ways to do things more effectively so i have to work less.
i would always keep keys that went to the same lock in the same hand so i had no chance of confusing them. I'd check which ones needed new labels beforehand and pre-write them so i only had to press them on when i got to them. i found one specific type of small keyring that was perfect to open and force apart the old rusty ones. i'd open the ring and stack up the things i had to get off of it next to the ones i had to get onto it and did the whole thing in one step. i figured out the best order to do everything with as little dancing around as possible so my feet wouldn't hurt and i didn't lose time.
it flowed so smooth at some point i realised i wasn't even looking at what I'm doing anymore.
the work they thought would take weeks ended up taking 3 days. the other 2 colleagues couldn't figure out how i did it because they got 20 done in 1 and a half hours and i got done 60. i was down to a 2 keys/1min rate by the end of it. the only downside was my hands kept cramping for a week on afterwards and some of my gel mani chipped a little.
Gelmani?
are you asking me to explain that gel mani is an abbreviation for gel manicure or are you Pontius Pilatus asking if i'm from Germany
Back in basic the drill sergeants were running us through problem solving drills, (use these parts to get across this without leaving anything for your enemy) and they had monkey bars with rope tied under them as a "broken rope bridge". We had some 2x4 and needed to cross the monkey bars and rope using the 2x4. After looking at it for a second, i asked my drill sergeant "so this entire thing is the bridge correct drill sergeant" to which he said it was. After a 10 second huddle with my team of 6 we crawled on top of the monkey bars without touching the ropes hanging underneath it. Drill sergeant said we were the first people to ever think of that and he was proud. Made me feel good
My last job at a senior community, I worked three jobs there: front desk, prep cook, and server.
When I served for breakfast, I had EVERYTHING but sanitation buckets pre-prepped, and since the residents wanted the same thing every day, I pre-wrote tickets too. That cut a lot of stress when it came to starting the day and cleaning up.
Prep cooking, I prepped several sandwiches and salads (minus adding stuff that could make them soggy) ahead of time, so that way my work load was cut in half for several days.
Finally, at the front desk, my boss literally wanted me to do a list of chores that had to be done at certain hours of the shift. Like, she literally wanted each lesson to write the morning schedules at 6PM, check the mail at 6:30PM, do rounds at 7:30PM, etc. I was like hell on, and during my 3:30-11:30 shifts I did ALL the work that required writing and cleaning within the span of 30 minutes, sometimes even less. I’m a fast typer, so always got that done fast. Then after that, I was mostly just chilling with some writing or drawing, and waiting on phone calls from residents or important meetings or whatever else. It was nice and quiet. Only thing was, I had to always look busy, because the boss didn’t like that work was done ahead of time.
Reading all this automated stuff, the first person to make a fully automated company off of this will blow completion out of the water. Cheap, because instead of paying a lot of people extra money, your just paying for a little bit.
Maybe even be a company that manages several other companies data for cheap.
LOL! I did that before. I had this job where people spent 3 months and I could do it in 3 weeks while still spending time watching movies 2/3 of the working hours. I heard they got slower after I left and no one realised they could easily get the codes online. Oh well, not my problem.
4:50 you know it's America if a sniper is doing the job....
Even though it's shooting honey filled paint balls on pols lol
So, what do you do as a helicopter pilot?
I blow the snow off of power lines.
I Do dishes at a fast food chain: standard three section dish sink. We are required to dip the dish in the sanitizer water after spraying the detergent off, and then set it on the rack to air dry.
People would usually dunk it in sideways (Metal serving pan) and put it out, and shake the water out of the pan they basically just filled up with the sani, which made each dip take about 15-20 seconds.
I found out that if i dip it halfway in and spin it counter-clockwise that the water would hit every surface and allow me to catch it by the other end empty, making the process take under 10 seconds instead. I am now one of the fastest dishwashers we have, and the other ones doesn't check to make sure they're clean.
Em i cant imagine it. Quite interested to know though
I'm in IT support - I just make automated responses everytime I'm asked a new question (which, isn't often). I complete 5x the amount of tickets than the rest of my team in a week despite working one day less than everyone else. To top this off, I can get away with secretly only working 1/2 days since I appear very busy to management. The bonuses are $$$ and I spend the rest of my 1/2 day working a second job (and taking some online courses) while still getting paid hourly for the first one, spending only 32 hours per week on 2 jobs and school. This definitely came in clutch as I have to have 3 surgeries this year, oof
For those familiar with Myer's Briggs personality type, this is how INTP and ENTP gets productive, and it works.
I'm intj. In my 1st job I was doing floormats for the restroom in commercial aircraft. So I noticed the same measurement to cut the mats comes out and about. So I just created a chart of all the dimensions for the parts, so I don't waste my time measuring them. Thus creating more efficient process. I quit after that because the pay sucks for $14/hr. I also convinced my boss in my 2nd job to get an actual haas cnc machine so we waste less times doing tool changes on retrofitted cnc manual mills and less of a clean up.
I do try looking at easy ways to do things, but really all I’m trying to judge is what’s the most efficient. Gotta balance the easiness with productivity and find a point where you’re exerting the least and producing the most result. Maybe it’s just because I’ve played Factorio for several years now, but that’s my outlook on completing tasks, and I think others should at least try it once.
One time, I was filling a giant box at work, with hundreds of packages. The box tore from the weight, and it needed to be delivered soon. I didn't want to put every item into ANOTHER box, so I seran wrapped the whole thing.
4:49 amazing. Multiple correct solutions
I work in a steel fabrication shop for building large raised structures for carports and solar panels. It's just to get myself through college. I cut the actual beams in an industrial saw. It is usually a very slow process. In a 10 hour shift, the average person may cut at most 10 to 12 beams a day.
After using this machine for two years, I figured out there is a manual setting to change the force limit of the machine, because it was in a default setting for beams that are way above our steel grade, practically titanium. I fixed the problem, and cut it to 25 a day.
Unfortunately, I work for a very...iffy company. So after I complete a week's amount of work in two or three days, they send me home with less money if I was just lazy.
So yeah, I get payed less because I was more efficient.
Apple picking story is the reason I think before I do something easy. it essentially could conflict with another thing that is good.
9:45 The guy who writes manuals for his colleagues with screenshots etc that help them to help customers, I let my Apprentices do this. They are given access to raw files they can edit as they see fit and the same files are then used to teach future Apprentices how to do the work. At the end of the Apprentices time in my department, I check the changes against the previous version of the file and it goes towards the marks they receive. If they didn't make any changes then I've usually already noticed and had them write up a new manual for another job.
14:49 I have a suggestion for that. Finish the roll and instead of taking the empty roll downstairs, shove the empty roll into the new roll. So like take the empty cardboard roll, squish it a bit so it can fit in the cardboard bit of the new roll.
Or just simply put it in a bag where you only collect these and once awhile take it out.
I'm in charge of reporting for my company. I noticed that the booking department and legal keeps coming to us to ask about contracts, which we would manually search with our heightened credentials. 90% of the messages in our it group are about that. I whip up a report which queried the database and returned the details they kept asking about with the info they had. No more questions and it actually improved their work. With a report I made in an hour. And that's just one example.
Worked at a call center that i hated. I have a speech and comprehension issue that constantly got me in trouble since they grade you on each call you make. If you added "a" in the middle of a sentence it was a point, mispronounced, it was 2 points. Unwanted pauses or if you paused too long, it was half a point. Insane amount of stuff like that. We got in trouble if we didnt dial the phone because they monitored you. So i would call, let it ring 6 times like ordered and then hang up. If someone answered i hang up. Did it for 4 months, 5-6 days a week for 8 hours. The system locked me out one day and i was fired for low stats on my survey calls.
Me! At my last job. We had to fill out paper sheets for reports on a daily basis. Eventually we'd run out and have to print more. I did not want to do that. So I created a google doc spreadsheet that let me and my coworkers do everything that was asked of us with the benefit of keeping an online file for it to help with social distancing. No more having to walk through the office to turn it in after work. Just save and go home.
Guy in my school have a brother older than him which told him the teachers habit of teaching and he got us a list of what is possibly going to be on every test. Just study what is needed, he literally studies 1 hr a week at home and aced all of his exam by observing the teachers habut.
tested out what my workplaces order gathering system does if i try to do something different than what we were told to do in different sections of the program...
figured out if i need a new box bar-coded the system has a quick creation function that opts it as a box instead of me manually selecting that i need a new container and that it will be a box and scanning a new code and hitting it to the box and then dropping the item to the created box i can just *bleep* *bleep* a new code with the reader and it automatically creates a new box and drops the item in... saves about 5 seconds every time i need a new box for a product.... saves a few minutes each day per person and i told about it to everyone i like at work... not much saved each day but over all a significant time save between several people each year.
customer returns used to require 30 taps to a tablet per product... figured out that i can with seven additional taps the first time i return a product i can substitute 9 taps with a single bar-code reader click from all returns of that specific product until the system changes and also that i can use 1 additional swipe and a tap to remove 9 taps of the tablet on every single product entry of a return after the first one...
with cancelled orders i can use the same trick of 7 additional taps to replace those 9 taps with a single bar-code read and that works across each other so if i return a cancelled product xxx the next time i do a return or cancellation with said product i can just *bleep* it with the bar-code reader but the system has some differences and if a spot in the warehouse is missing its bar-code from the container (for example it was sticked to one of the boxes on the pallet instead of the pallet and the particular box has been gathered from it) what you would normally have to do is manually select map, select the right building, select the right aisle and its right side (you have to zoom otherwise you will click the wrong aisle even if you have small fingers) then hunt down the specific spot of the aisle and then select that spot and select the correct pallet code from the list it has on the spot... what i figured out was that you can just *bleep* the aisle spot code the storage racks have and then open the map it will open the map on the spot you need to select the correct pallet code instead of having to hunt down it from the whole warehouse complex map level saving a good 30 sec for each product.
also figured out i dont have to select with a tap that i want to take a specific order from a list of orders i have completed and further tap again that i want to assign it a spot in our warehouse where its to wait till a customer picks it up but i can just read the bar-code and it automatically assumes i want to assign it a storage spot instead of giving it to a customer.
doesn't sound all that much but had to once do a special combination job which while not related to any of those things directly used most of the tricks to speed it up caused my speed compared to the other guy doing the same job to be almost 4 times as fast even while i wasted some of my time to correct incorrect information about the product sizes and weights that in return would remove incorrectly added lines from similiar future special combination jobs while also improving the selection of suitable containers for individual gathering jobs and correcting the pricing on our shipping costs and customer billing of said freight...
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Text to speech thing; Street Petersburg
I work for a family business run out of there house. They had me sort bottles based on diameter. One day I brought legos to work so I could do something on break. One week later, I got a bottle sorter. The family started me doing something similar again and again until their hole business is automated. Now they have me do inventory and repair the machines.
TL;DR- Automated a familly business and moved up in their company.
I do less work now than before. so less work for more pay.
Yo, great video dude! What voice do u use?
I'm not lazy and I do my work, that's why my job likes me. It is fast food service though...
If you're going to be lazy, atleast be smart, if you're gonna be dumb, atleast be strong, and if you're going to start a business, hire the both and make them work together
Toilet: *leaks*
Me: *calls lazy person*
Lazy person: WeLl PuT fLeX tApE oN iT
In my Social Studies class, we'd use Google Classroom and Google Docs. Our teacher would give us around 5 assignments a day, along with notes to do in a 1 hr and 15 min class. I got 5 people together, and everyone got one assignment while someone took notes. We got done halfway through class everyday and we watched UA-cam All day
The pizza chain I worked at (brimming on becoming nationwide) wanted to increase premium beer and dipping sauce sales.
I value self esteem and appearance in employees.
We had "counter girls" (cashiers who weren't dudes).
I put the dips and premium drink on the bottom shelf. Once the customer realized that was how to make them bend over, premium alcohol and sauce sales went up like 300% in a month or so.
The girls too average went up a good 30-50%.
Easy to retain employees when they make good money and have fun 👍
my nephew outsourced his chores LOL
haha okayy now this is my story:
since quarantine started, my teachers would give us LOADS of assignments. we have a schedule for our classes. During maths class, my teacher will give us the assignment online where we will have to answer them in a paper and then send the picture of the work to my teacher (as evidence) and he will give us all the answers after that. So me, a lazy potato, would always go to google to search for a math calculator for certain topics. ( ex: algebra question --> I will search for "maths algebra calculator" online ) and I'll just copy down the answers and the calculations. My teachers and classmates doesn't know :)
Those workers who plugged in a normal fan to make the new machines useless is my favorite.
In primary school, not that I was lazy, I just couldn't memorize all of the multiplication table. My kryptonite was 9x6 and 7x8 😂. I still get it wrong even though were already at multiplying 3 digits by 3 digits. After some experimenting, I discovered that if I doubled the odd number and multiplied it by half of the even number, the answer is still the same. Basically 18x3=9x6. I just used ratio and proportion w/o knowing it. That's how I survived math in elementary. 😂
This is the entire concept of the to show "the office" it's the reason their branch was always the best in the company despite being the most unpopulated and smallest region.
The office was a great show
i work for a football team to sort equipment and give it to players which involves fitting them. because we have like four different brands of everything and they all size differently i just sort by measurement which is a lot simpler as most guys know that anyways. switched from like four attempts to one or two. saves work. unfortunately its more complex than "large, medium, small, ect" so management scraped it despite everyone else preferring it.
The right kind of person to hire is someone who is the right combination of "lazy" and "hardworking". That is, they want to get the job done, but don't want to spend a lot of time to get that job done.
I ended up being one of those people once I finally developed a work ethic (mostly due to people dropping work on my desk and expecting me to do it). I automate as much as possible (though I am fairly computer illiterate, so I'm not like some of the people in the video). I reduce workload where possible. I look for the most efficient ways to do any and everything.
I was given 16 tasks to be done by this other woman in the office because it was taking her all day to do them and leaving her no time at all for the actual job she'd been hired to do. I went through the list of tasks and just started classifying them. What was the goal of the task, how was the task executed? Similar tasks were grouped together. If they were similar in terms of execution, they could be rolled together. If they were similar in terms of goals, we could eliminate redundancies. In one month of learning these jobs and classifying them, I reduced 16 tasks down to 5 and the workload from 8 hours a day to just 3. Six months later, I further reduced this to 3 tasks and the workload down to 2 hours a day. A year and a half later, it is still 3 tasks, but the workload is down to 1 hour each day and every member of staff is trained how to do it so it never falls behind.
I got so good at my job that I was spending more time managing employees than doing the job I'd been hired to do (Data Entry). I eventually became Supervisor and through the freedom of allowing me to actually work autonomously, I reduced workload across all my staff. That is to say, over a year ago we reduced workload so much that we had no work to do for 6 weeks and upper management had to assign us more work and more training to do just to keep us busy (the job we do never runs out of work. Ever. It never has before, and it didn't until I took over). As of COVID starting, I've even further reduced workload so even with the new tasks, we're back down to "minimal work" and very little to do. What does that mean? It means we're finally looking at reducing "Temp Staff" and we've been reducing their hours as a result of very little work.
As a Supervisor, do you know what the longest task I have for the day is? Putting together the "Morning Report" which is about 45 minutes of gathering information from several dozen sources and putting it into an e-mail. After that, I just wander around and do "odd jobs" that need doing just to stay busy and not be bored. Many of those "odd jobs" are things I used to have my staff take care of, but I do them now just to allow them to do their jobs and so that I've got something to do. Even then, I still run out of work to do before noon. My staff is still out of work by 3:00 on most days.
@Ad Lockhorst It's often treated that way because people don't want to have to learn the processes and requirements of other departments and divisions.
My department runs sort of the opposite of that. It is very much treated as "what do you need from us?" and we get to work supplying it.
See, I've picked up a lot of information from a lot of other divisions in order to better serve them as well as ourselves. I know bits and pieces of everyone's jobs and all the way those jobs interact with ours. There's a value in that when providing services. It allows us to provide only the bare minimum product necessary for each division and then allows us to focus on our own duties. It keeps us from getting bogged down with a lot of extra unnecessary junk and complicated projects.
The major advantage of being in the position of knowing all this extra stuff that most people wouldn't care about is that it allows my division to effectively control how the other divisions work. That is, we've become the axle and what we provide are the spokes. If we pull the spokes out, the wheel doesn't turn anymore.
To put it into simple terms... My division is the most efficient, has the most documentation, has the most trained employees, and has the largest amount of "accountability" of anywhere in the entire office building. When anything major changes or is going to change, I'm brought in to consult on it and voice my concerns, issues, and questions. When my staff or division needs absolutely anything, they are taken seriously by any other member of management and we are typically given what we want, or very close to what we want.
And none of that even stops me from consulting my employees. I'm not in the trenches with them every day. They are "on the front line" with everything we're working with, so I get a decent chunk of "most recent" information from them. When I rewrite training materials, they look them over. When I rework policy, they are asked for input.
It is a group effort and is very much "us vs them". But, how else can you run the place when we're all about efficiency and doing as little as possible while everyone else spends all day scrambling and trying to complete their work in the 8 hours they have? We're done before the 8 hours are done because we're smart about how we work. I strive to ensure that we remain that smart about it.
I don't know about anyone else, but that's the American Dream. Working not all that hard for a good paycheck. Running out of work by noon and still clocking 8 hours a day at $16 an hour sounds pretty good to me.
Probably doesn't help that the place falls to pieces if I'm gone more than a few days in a row either. Nobody takes my "work hard to be lazy" approach as seriously as I do. Most people just like to play "Johnny Cut Corners".
@Ad Lockhorst For us, we do what our jobs are unless someone needs something from us. Then, they come to me and say, "I need X" and then I get it for them. We have a ton of information that I log and catalog and hold onto. Remember that I said me and my team are the most well documented in the entire division? There's a reason for that.
Every single person in upper management knows to come to me first for most anything even tangentially related to what our jobs are. I usually have the information, the answer, or can deliver whatever they're asking for within an hour.
In my experience, most management just aren't interested in learning what their employees do nor are they interested in learning what other sections of divisions are doing or are responsible for. They're the wrong kind of lazy. They're the kind that just wants to put forth no effort at all. But, that's typical of most management that is hired, because the people hiring management often don't know what they're meant to be looking for in management either.
Basically, it's lazy people and incompetence.
My math teacher in 11th grade was a lazy but super smart guy. He always showed us short, practical solutions.
Everyone is lazy, but people who aren't lazy are just to lazy to be lazy.
I got task to copy hardcopy documents into softcopy Microsoft word documents. Instead of retype 1000+ pages, I scanned the pages, insert it to one note, copy its image words, and copy it to Microsoft Word.
4 days work turn into half day work.
Turn in the work 1 day before due date
In my college days, we did a lot of data analysis and needed to compute 5 different formulae with hundreds of raw data. We were taught to do it without calculators nor spreadsheets.
I, being a stubborn and lazy student, just search how to do it in spreadsheet. And just took me ~2 hrs.
On the other hand, my classmates, really didn't sleep and continued doing it 'til afternoon.
When I got there, in the school, they asked for my help because they were sleepy and tired. I finished all of their computation ~3hrs...
They were pissed, annoyed, angry to the world, angry to our professor. 😅😅😅
12:55 I myself got to that solution aswell when I was in elementary school, but a bit differently.
If you're adding all the numbers from 1 to a certain number, let's say 50, you just have to multiply said number for its "half + 0.5".
So, adding all numbers from 1 to 50 is basically 50 x 25.5.
Same thing for 100.
100 x 50.5.
From 1 to 4?
4 x 2.5.
And so on.
Maths is the best form of entertainment when you are doing a repetitive job.
My practicality is rooted in laziness. I can get a lot of stuff done so long as I don't have to do anything for the next few days
I figured out that decimals could be used to enter clock time on Excel sheets, and now I never have to worry about confusing AM and PM. My boss knows about this too, and she is okay with it.
I read a little of this thread yesterday. I don't usually connect what I read on reddit and listen to on here
Bruh, that empty box and fan one has my crying 😂😂😂.
Straight up got a desk job where I b had to do reports on goods and values and quantity and all that. Everyone else in the department was using hand calculators for all the number crunch but we turned in the report on excell.....so i just input all the data we needed and set a macro to tally sums and such. Took a litteral 8hr day of work for most of them and turned it into 2 to 4hr tops. All it got me was a pat on the back and used like a dog in other departments so those in mine could milk the clock
Yeah this is my current situation. I do my job which takes like maybe half a day to a full day and rest of week put an auto clicker to stay logged in due to system settings. Answer calls and emails when necessary but it’s been nice.
I have a great idea. I'm lazy to even type stuff so i would put a mic in front of a register and directly add stuff the customers say, not a big hack but it works
That one about the bears and the poles sounds like a bad idea, who the hell wants bears walking around the power lines looking for food? The helicopter is smart, wonder how much it costs in gas / upkeep
I had a job making deliveries to businesses around my town. My manager told me to just deliver going down the list, but I just installed an app and did the job in half the time. My manager made me work extra because I was such a valued employee.
What's the app called?
@@themattrixrevolution Square route
Yeah, in my experience a lazy person will half-ass a hard job and end up breaking something, shove the work onto someone else or just flat up not do it and try to fake the reporting to show they did.