Twitter my arse

I see that Demi Moore has used Twitter to mourn the death of Patrick Swayze. Is that what we have become ? Are we now at the stage where we need to truncate a sentiment to 140 characters before we can express it ? Terrible…

Processes…

I often wonder about some people at work. You know, I work in a busy office, and generally we have a ton of things to do. I currently have a list of projects as long as long as my arm to get through and I know a lot of my colleagues are in the same position. But apart from the busy people, I’ve identified two other types in my job. The wasters and the waste.

The wasters: I would characterise these people as lazy bastards, pure and simple. They don’t just do no work, because I know others who sit at their desk all day long and while they do nothing relevent to work they do something, albeit personal. No, the wasters are the utter trash of society who sit at their desk and browse the internet all day looking at football365, or walk around the office with a cup in one paw and a dog eared sheet of paper in the other. If there’s one good thing about the recession, it’s that we got rid of most of them.

The waste: Now these people really push my buttons and are more often than not found in management. These are the ones with a trumped up image of self importance. No trivial matter is too unimportant for them to get their view in. Generally, they’ll wander around from meeting to meeting brimming with ideas and work for others, stopping progress in the name of process, documentation or security. But what get’s me is their complete ability to make a seemingly endless amount of useless and timewasting work out of nothing. An example. The other day I heard two of them talking about a process. Now we all need processes. A bricklayer needs a process to build a wall. A Doctor needs a process to remove your appendix and not your spleen. A pilot needs a process to check the plane will fly. I managed to endure enough of their nonsense to realise were discussing a process to review a process. I was flabbergasted. Obviously they didn’t think this through. I mean, who will review the process for reviewing a process? We can’t use the same process, that’ll be ridiculous. So we’ll have another process to review the process for process review. But then we’ll need another… Needless to say, they kept this going for hours…