What Is The Greatest Waste Of Your Time

[medic15al]

TEXT MESSAGING. I greatly dislike text messages. Why can't someone just push the darn button and speak to me. Is it necessary to text ?

Yes it is necessary to text. I am legally deaf and wear 2 hearing-aids, and sound coming from an electronic device is different than spoken in person so I prefer to read and understand the message than catch about 3 out of 10 words coming over a speaker.

 

[BC38]

BearBio, I hear ya. Back when I was a working stiff, my company required its employees, one and all, to annually take a number of short, online courses with quizzes. Compliance training.

E.g., "Is it okay to bribe foreign government officials? a) Yes, b) No, c) Maybe." Or, "Is it okay to hit on colleagues for sex? a) Yes, b) No, c) Maybe."

Total waste of time.

Like everybody else, I'd let 'em stack up until close to the deadline, and then spent hours ploughing through them. I can't think of even one instance where I learned something useful.

My theory is the corporation made us do the "training" so that when an employee screwed up somewhere, and got fined or sued, it could say, "Not our fault! We told 'em not to that!"

You must have worked for a Fortune 100 company too!
For 26 years I probably spent at least 80 hours annually repeating the same "documented" training every year - just so the company could CYA if I ever screwed up or did something unethical. And EVERY management employee had to do the same. The amount of wasted time was astronomical.

Nowadays cruising half a dozen forums is my favorite way to while away some spare time. Not a waste IMO though, since I'm always learning new and interesting things...

 

[Mr.Harry]

Hiring and training new employees who immediately fail and/or quit, due to drug addictions, personal 'issues', or just general laziness & unreliability.

 

[pharmer]

If'n I get a hold of anything "Nietzsche" related it can be a long night. That krazy-krank had no answers but asked great questions. Joe

 

[Golddollar]

Hiring and training new employees who immediately fail and/or quit, due to drug addictions, personal 'issues', or just general laziness & unreliability.[/QUOTE

You got that right. I had a string of assistants up and leave with no notice on my last job before I got a great assistant who really knew her stuff. However, she then left after I retired.

 

[Laketime]

For the past six years its been going to all the local gun shops, looking for nice used Smith & Wesson revolvers for sale.

 

[Golddollar]

Not a total waste of time, but . . .

One of my pleasures in life is good sound equipment in my house and my cars. After taking my time in reading all the directions and manuals, I figured I could hook up my new amplifier so that the sound from my TV would go through the big floor Infinity speakers that I've had for probably 35 years but still sound fabulous. Just string the cables and plug them in and start playing. Boy was I wrong! The amp wouldn't work at all without going through some long tutorial that involved the internet and setting up a calibration microphone to test the room. What I thought would be a 45 minute job tops turned into a 6 hour affair between the phone calls and testing all the connections. I had to move slow because I have been having some balance issues lately. But I did get it working! Of course nowadays a 12 year old kid would have got it done in 30 minutes.