• Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    If I got things done, maybe. When I have to pay fees because I was too lazy to pay a bill in time, I don’t see how that’s efficient.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The Venn-diagram of lazy people and efficient people is not a circle, my friend. There is some overlap, but not entirely overlapping.

  • Adramis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Depends.

    Lazy people who automate their own tasks so they do less work - efficient.

    Lazy people who pass off work to other people, causing them to get snowed under no matter how efficient they are - garbage shitsacks.

  • Zippy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One of my first bosses noticed me doing a job in a particular laborish way when there were power tools available that would make it much easier. I remember him taking me aside and suggesting that it is better to use all the tools available if it makes the work easier. Better for me and better for him.

    I have since become the boss and I often repeat similar advice to employees. I tell them I appreciate when they are working hard but I even appreciate it more when they work smarter but less hard. If there is a hole to dig, don’t grab a shovel when there is an excavator nearby. I am more impressed by the work you get done and even more so if you do it with minimal labor.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    This requires defining an additional separation between “lazy, but productive” and “lazy but NOT productive”

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I used to put far more effort into reasons for not doing work than the work itself would have taken.

    Phenomenal, really .