Busy Sickness
Monday, April 23, 2007
It's a national epidemic. And one that could cause the economy to grind to a standstill if we're not careful!
Here's how it works:
- You're so busy you can't look at what I've sent over to you for approval. Times this by everyone else and we can't do any work.
- Because we're waiting to hear back from all you guys, we can't pass on that small piece of outsourced programming to someone else.
- Programmmer relys on this and lots of other small pieces to keep him going. Because everyone is busy nothing is coming his way. He's not going to invest in that new piece of kit now.
- Multiply this out across multiple industries and soon enough everything grinds to a standstill.
On a related note, I know someone who was saying recently that they spent 2 years and lots of money attending a psychotherapist. The upshot of it was that they learned how to feel and not just busy themselves out of it. Everyone in Ireland is busy busy. Does that mean that we're all secretly depressed and, not having attended this therapist, we are just doing what we know best: busying ourselves out of it?
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2 Comments:
Ha ha! And no as someone suggested by email, the 'person' in question isn't me. It would take more like 12 years to 'fix' me!!
By Brightspark Dublin, at 5:52 PM
It could very well be me. I need a holiday.