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ater by asking me if i was from a privileged indian background going by how i spoke his language not quite an aha moment but it was one of the few times that a stereotype seemed to affirm itself share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading comment blah life work disengage autopilot in blah life work on august 22 2010 at 8 48 am work monday to friday mostly within the brackets set out in the employee manual under office hours the odd overrun into the late evenings or even a weekend or two weekends sleeping later restocking of home supplies visiting of parents and assorted relatives movies brunches vegetating on the couch scurrying around malls swiping plastic cards not necessarily in that order vacation couple of times a year ok once a year planned well in advance with lots of travel website surfing every couple of months a new acquisition from a retail distribution channel technological decorative often shrink wrapped seldom a need how much of our schedule is regimented by convention in this day and age of laptops mobile internet access cards and flexi times how many of us manage our own schedules according to what makes sense versus what s conventional wisdom if we exclude blue collar jobs or those involving responding in real time customer service reps emergency room doctors most jobs have very little to do with number of hours spent and even less with a specific set of them just like one of those internet memes asks how is that everyday s news fits neatly into the same sized newspaper how does our workload fit neatly into 10 12 hour workdays everyday no this post is not about time management atleast not in the sense of maintaining daily planners and eliminating distractions to be more productive it is about how most of us willingly write off a chunk of our day as work hours and then set about filling that time and then some performing a variety of tasks from meeting deadlines to responding to email basically juggling a combination of value add activities with purely administrative tasks to rush through our day i ve seen multiple sets of colleagues across organisations slow down in the middle of the day and plod through activities taking an hour when 15 mins would do taking languid coffee breaks then getting back to a frenetic pace towards the end of the day don t get me wrong i m a big proponent of goofing off i just have a problem with doing it on my employer s terms constrained to the office premises with the limited menu of aimless and regulated internet surfing and emailing this straitjacketed view seems to apply to what we call our leisure time as well friday nights or maybe thursday if you re feeling particularly adventurous we re thankful for the privilege of spending between 2 and 3 hours with friends time barely enough to just to share life updates before its time to bundle into your respective cars to head home rinse repeat every 3 4 weeks now compare these interactions with the no time barred conversations that happened when in college over the solitary bottle of domestic booze and often short in supply accompaniments where everything from the purpose of life to bodily functions were fair game for discussion not quite in the same league are they what if we actively monitor everything that calls for our time most of our jobs would afford us atleast week long views of our workloads note not schedules to be able to decide to cram in some extra hours when highly productive and to complete disengage when not so much maybe instead of taking a couple of extra long nicotine caffeine breaks we just take off when the traffic isn t ungodly and enjoy not squeeze in a game of squash or a few reps at the gym maybe even take off at 3pm without feeling the need for a dying relative to justify it and meet the wife for a movie and dinner or take parents out for one or meet friends without traffic and time constraints or even just go home crack open a beer and chill to some pink floyd what if we disengage the autopilot share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading view 1 comment blackberry email meetings productivity work anatomy of a meeting in blah email work on april 26 2010 at 7 42 am why don t you setup some time to brainstorm this the most productivity destroying words uttered within office spaces bcp dr plans business continuity disaster recovery that focus on earthquakes tsunamis and peaceful party protests have nothing on the biggest threat to corporations the meeting naxals and other so called freedom fighters rely on ripping up railway tracks to disrupt normally productive life in the white collar world all it takes is a microsoft outlook invite you can either be the unwitting inviter or the invitee if you re the inviter or meeting organizer you have the enviable task of finding simultaneously blank space across all calendars in question a task that google has developed algorithms to do in their calendar application so much for jokes about it being rocket science to set up meetings the first attempt at a suggested date time is knocked back with disdain with reasons like will be on a flight or will be 3am in the timezone i ll be in few iterations later they ll be whittled down to one troublemaker who says i ll be in between flights and can do 25 mins provided the improbable happens and flights are delayed a date time is setup come the appointed time and all shuffle into a suitably darkened conference room with the first optimistic slide projected on screen the participants settle in as the organizer runs through the introductory background material every now and then a low buzz is heard followed by the owner reaching for his bberry to read critical emails about scheduled downtime of the company s email server in bratislava or enlargement of certain organs every now and then one of the bberry owners picks up their buzzing phone to dive out while mumbling their apologies and whispering into the device that they would be interested to know more about the latest unobtainium credit card that standard chartered had to offer meanwhile the meeting meanders until coming to rest and asking any suggestions pause longer pause someone mumbles about wanting to deep dive into the background material to which the organizer mentions that it s the same document that was sent to all attendees 3 weeks ago the smarter ones have already been overtly not covertly glancing at their watch as they cite other meetings beginning milliseconds after this one ends there are closing comments directed at the organizer about great work we should build on this why don t you schedule time next week as the participants dissipate total man hours spent 16 hours time spent organizing 4 hours man hours attending 12 hours no of inputs eh dilbert strip forward email about meetings received by the group in the middle of the meeting leading to chuckles priceless share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading view 2 comments blah email work it help desk in blah email rant work on april 17 2010 at 8 16 am the early part of the week downloaded an interesting email into my official inbox it was first thing in the morning and i had opened the digital version of the plastic tray with the large in taped on it with scotch tape the usual 60 odd new emails message appeared as they started downloading every professional today probably has their own sophisticated system of email management there are folders colours message alerts all that serve as your personal secretary filing information by priority and urgency not necessarily related being a follower of the pareto school of thought the foundation of my system is to identify the emails addressed only to me and to not bother about the rest since they can usually be ignored until someone checks outlook therefore has express instructions to show the ones sent only to me in blue in the inbox the rest usually group themselves into three categories independence working at a firm that s makes most of its money from being official pains in the client ass namely audit means there are stringent requirements to ensure no vested interests are spawned even unknowingly hence independence emails that serve to inform you that so and so ltd was now a client and that we had 3 days to sever all dealings with them there have known to be instances where employees have hurtled out of moving automobiles on learning that the carmaker was the latest big win die hard company loyalists are not averse to refusing to compromise their independence by refusing the last and only batch of a life saving drug made by a company they audit support functions the paradoxically named departments namely finance hr and it this discussion only considers finance and it since hr does exemplary work the fact that appraisals and wage hike decisions are around the corner has nothing to do with it for functions that are quietly expected to support the rest of the organization go about their business these guys have a lot to share and a lot of what they say has the word policy in it the usual clutch of emails from finance about the deadline for submitting expenses that have not yet incurred or reminders of how they only accepted sworn statements from landlords signed in blood not necessarily theirs as proof of tenancy i ll come back to it hail marys in large organizations there are many people astute observation and so these many people are organized into departments teams subteams and so on this means when someone needs something done they have the enviable task of identifying the right team for it since given the movement of people in and out and the reorganizations and the promptness at which org charts and contacts are updated most senior folk resort to the american football tactic of lobbing their work requests high and far and send it to as many people as they can muster with the idea that the right person would be among the recipients and would promptly proceed to deliver exemplary service who am i throttle their optimism coming back to it the email inspite of not being emblazoned with the blue that some others did including those from clients with subject lines like wtf caught my attention with a gleam in my eye i opened the email with subject it helpdesk support feedback satisfied that it wasn t a nigerian scam email i clicked on the link to open the survey page and went to town maybe it was the fact that the name it helpdesk in their case only makes sense as the name of a b grade thriller based on a killer desk that goes on the rampage and makes it victims cry help it certainly not because it takes a median 7 calls to get them to send their swat team to your rescue or the fact that their resolution to problems ranging from how do i find this file i saved to my 5 year old threw it from our 15th storey apartment balcony is to format the hard drive or it could even be that when a virus had disabled my anti virus program they were unable to uninstall it since they the it team didn t have the admin password required to uninstall or maybe i was just being plain mean share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading comment blah travel work tally ho and all that jazz in blah life travel work on march 9 2010 at 4 08 pm i m not a well travelled person in a little over three decades i d only been on three countries other than the one that issued me my passport with a niggardly number like that i was tempted to think like the bankers who stamped aaa on the tranches of home loans given to the impeccably credential ed jobless population add the countries i spent time on travellators between terminals on stopovers and voila we double the number i knew i should ve been a banker the united kingdom my knowledge of this country was built from a combination of enid blyton frederick forsyth arthur conan doyle novels and james bond movies so in essence i figured everyone to be dressed in savile row suits stepping into aston martins or jaguars roaring around the cobblestoned streets named after circuses and squares while keeping a few yards ahead of pursuing german made sedans in which large men in suits alternate between taking potshots at the car ahead and exclaiming in dubious eastern european accents if the chase lasted a while and if it started to rain which as i found out is inevitable they d politely stop off at a farm where they d be served scones with golden pats of butter and other assorted baked goods with tea how wonderfully quaint two weeks and five cities later i might not be in a position to corroborate a lot of my impressions though i am the authority on conference room furniture and office coffee machines week 1 london leicester square cabs and the tube once i recovered from the dizziness due to the roundabouts wouldn t stop signs have worked equally well turns out the city s quite nice lot of activity a centrally located hotel facilitated walks to most of the places yashraj cameras rove big ben buckingham palace london eye nice bunch of pubs dinners of fish and chips and an assortment of bitters and ales courtesy some of the local colleagues getting around the city means the tube or cabs convenient and all that but what with all sorts of monetary discouragements for people to bring their cars into zone 1 yes very imaginative i was thankful for an expense account specifically when learning that train tickets to other cities cost nearly as much as flight tickets to do back here yes including the 37 different taxes and surcharges week 2 birmingham milton keynes leeds and newcastle it s like the colonists forgot about their other cities when putting all of the shiny stuff in their capital spent not more than a night in each of the others and seems one would scratch one s head about looking for things to do after the customary stop off at one of the local pubs all in all a nice l il whistlestop tour of the country and would ve been better if i hadn t had to cancel on meeting friends share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading view 2 comments about lazy blogger test cricket lover government office phobe unitasker jargon deficient management consultant archives july 2013 april 2013 november 2012 june 2012 november 2011 september 2011 august 2011 june 2011 march 2011 november 2010 september 2010 august 2010 may 2010 april 2010 march 2010 january 2010 october 2009 august 2009 june 2009 march 2009 february 2009 january 2009 december 2008 october 2008 august 2008 may 2008 april 2008 march 2008 february 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