Yeah… but those who get things done, are happier people then those who do not. If one was paid on what we produced, and validated for our good work too, there’d be more of that and more good fellow workers.
I coined my own phrase for this years ago: “The Curse of Competency”.
My current position started out as the receptionist, and now…well, I don’t think there’s an official title for what I do, but it’s “the most work ANY of our past receptionists we’ve ever had”.
Yeah… but those who get things done, are happier people then those who do not. If one was paid on what we produced, and validated for our good work too, there’d be more of that and more good fellow workers.
At my job—the US Postal Service—the reward for finishing your own work early is to go help someone else finish. Not a good motivating tool…
This is why those like Grace continue to exist. Other people do their work for them.
I coined my own phrase for this years ago: “The Curse of Competency”.
My current position started out as the receptionist, and now…well, I don’t think there’s an official title for what I do, but it’s “the most work ANY of our past receptionists we’ve ever had”.
Yet, I see no increase in pay yet. *sigh*
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt
Scott…. I agree that the “do-ers” are happy people… they have the sense of accomplishment… that “I done it” spirit. Teddy would’ve known that, yah?
Robert N. … Well, the slow pokes must appreciate it though. Certainly, the “get it done quick” workers make a little extra in the money area…????
Rat… Grace, our beloved… she wasn’t very motivated, was she? I guess she must be a better coffee maker… she still has a job.
Dawn… there ought to be a horror film of that name… let’s make one!
“The reward for a job well done is a harder job next time”
Miles Vorkosigan