systems-oriented eights.
it's because i see the forest, not because i value "neatness" or see virtue in "perfection." for the love of g-d, i like mess. of certain kinds. but i fucking hate needless waste: wasted time, wasted energy, wasted space.
you'd think i wouldn't care anymore. i have been working stupid office 9-5s for how many years? but when someone refers to an obsolete excel chart that needs to be "updated," because the concept of using the fucking database for what it's for is a foreign concept -- i want to shoot something. when i gently suggest that i create a report to run weekly from the database, exporting INTO EXCEL, so it looks EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ROGUE SPREADSHEET -- eyes glaze over in response.
i have a fixation with effectiveness and usefulness and streamlining in the interest of getting shit done. but i have never cared that people use stupid, archaic methods at my day jobs, because, well they're just day jobs (in MY REAL JOB - the band - I am more impatient/demanding about inefficiency/bad strategy than you can conceive of. i mean, unless yr in the band, in which case you probably can conceive of it). but seriously, unlike a one, i can sit and laugh while my boss crookedly hangs some art on the wall or uses the most inefficient method humanly imagineable to accomplish something unnecessary - so long as i'm getting paid for it and it's not my art on the wall. but when it requires me to simulatenously enter the same data in 10 different places, rather than ONE, and when 8 different files are referred to as "the real master list," and when I *could* be getting all my work done in 5 minutes, pretending it took all day, and writing songs and LJ posts instead -- i get so FUCKING irritated.
doesn't someone want to come have lunch at the rock with me?
you'd think i wouldn't care anymore. i have been working stupid office 9-5s for how many years? but when someone refers to an obsolete excel chart that needs to be "updated," because the concept of using the fucking database for what it's for is a foreign concept -- i want to shoot something. when i gently suggest that i create a report to run weekly from the database, exporting INTO EXCEL, so it looks EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ROGUE SPREADSHEET -- eyes glaze over in response.
i have a fixation with effectiveness and usefulness and streamlining in the interest of getting shit done. but i have never cared that people use stupid, archaic methods at my day jobs, because, well they're just day jobs (in MY REAL JOB - the band - I am more impatient/demanding about inefficiency/bad strategy than you can conceive of. i mean, unless yr in the band, in which case you probably can conceive of it). but seriously, unlike a one, i can sit and laugh while my boss crookedly hangs some art on the wall or uses the most inefficient method humanly imagineable to accomplish something unnecessary - so long as i'm getting paid for it and it's not my art on the wall. but when it requires me to simulatenously enter the same data in 10 different places, rather than ONE, and when 8 different files are referred to as "the real master list," and when I *could* be getting all my work done in 5 minutes, pretending it took all day, and writing songs and LJ posts instead -- i get so FUCKING irritated.
doesn't someone want to come have lunch at the rock with me?