tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post7953340122994853204..comments2024-03-07T08:59:32.598+05:30Comments on My Think Pad: The subtle art of time managementsilverinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16474136215458639419noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-84788283563962893752008-09-10T21:26:00.000+05:302008-09-10T21:26:00.000+05:30Sriram: :)esvee: LOL!! That guy is very wise indee...Sriram: :)<BR/><BR/>esvee: LOL!! That guy is very wise indeed! :p<BR/><BR/>Kicha: Great to see you after a long time and thank you! :)silverinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16474136215458639419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-69795929304414342282008-09-10T21:13:00.000+05:302008-09-10T21:13:00.000+05:30nicely written with right mix of sarcasm.nicely written with right mix of sarcasm.Krishna Ram Kuttuva Jeyaramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16405795592513947122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-45911958608478483632008-09-07T15:00:00.000+05:302008-09-07T15:00:00.000+05:30so true.there is one guy in our office who aligns ...so true.there is one guy in our office who aligns the "notepad" to "Eudora"(our mail client) so everyone will think he is busy writing mails, while in reality he is writing poems,short stories etc. And he always used to say to me "see the big picture". So once when he asked me to see the big picture i told " i cant see any picture. please tell me what you see in the big picture" he just looked atesveehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610769050300795703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-76633834756294078632008-09-03T06:19:00.000+05:302008-09-03T06:19:00.000+05:30Ah Dilbert is so awesome.. and Calvin too :pBtw, s...Ah Dilbert is so awesome.. and Calvin too :p<BR/><BR/>Btw, saw u've blogrolled me. Thanks!Sriramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01191368051234069672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-21904077249686134882008-09-02T13:25:00.000+05:302008-09-02T13:25:00.000+05:30Tom: Whatever you strive to be, just remember that...Tom: Whatever you strive to be, just remember that everyone cannot have the same work load and you will be fine. :) <BR/><BR/>ms cris: You are right! I am not condemning these people as it is not their fault that their workload is less. However they are smart enough to spread their work thin and make it look like they are putting in the same amount of work. Thats called efficient time management!silverinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16474136215458639419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-808128956659364872008-09-02T13:21:00.000+05:302008-09-02T13:21:00.000+05:30Parkinson's Law - "work expands so as to fill the ...Parkinson's Law - "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" - seems to be at work everywhere.Its widely believed that private sector employers are capable of extracting 25 hours of work in a day from their employees. So such empoyees who stand out really deserve a salute!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-70307010844351003952008-09-02T12:54:00.000+05:302008-09-02T12:54:00.000+05:30All offices face this problem. The situation can ...All offices face this problem. The situation can be worse in offices where work is not exactly quantifiable. This only comes to the aid of the work shirker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-87104644536901579622008-09-02T11:35:00.000+05:302008-09-02T11:35:00.000+05:30And some people have the skill of taking up a litt...And some people have the skill of taking up a little tiny issue, and spreading it over an entire page :p<BR/><BR/>I belong to RP and M's category and I stand by the need for human inefficiency! :D<BR/><BR/>A smooth tyre on a smooth road stays still. While you people are smooth tyres ensuring motion by taking a rough road, we are rough tyres ensuring motion by taking a smooth road ;)skarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01438206586553429725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-15262229914090160292008-09-02T06:55:00.000+05:302008-09-02T06:55:00.000+05:30"being busy" is something. "Making others feel you..."being busy" is something. "Making others feel you're busy" is totally different. :P These people rock!!<BR/><BR/>And yea, Dilbert rocks, right Tom? :PHarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13385148059872556205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-66798230145578953132008-09-02T00:22:00.000+05:302008-09-02T00:22:00.000+05:30Yes I agree with Philip..those are just short term...Yes I agree with Philip..those are just short term tricks which wont stand long..the best manager's easily find who the lame duck is!!mathewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00860741232962357228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-14158251881130551572008-09-01T22:33:00.000+05:302008-09-01T22:33:00.000+05:30From what I've seen, time management may be possib...From what I've seen, time management may be possible over short periods of time. But over a long period, such acts are hard to keep up (like in your anecdote, they show up some time or the other). Very soon people do realize who actually works and who doesn't. Once that happens, then such people don't have much of a future.<BR/><BR/>Which is why I've started worrying about my future :pPhiliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563409850611657324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-16222613361145466452008-09-01T22:26:00.000+05:302008-09-01T22:26:00.000+05:30awesome post again :-)"It is also about accepting ...awesome post again :-)<BR/>"It is also about accepting certain indigestible differences at work place and swallowing it for the greater good of our sanity!"<BR/><BR/>Ha ha..well said..<BR/>But if the appraisal/performance rating etc is based on billed hours, then I think it's a different story..<BR/>Most of the time freshers/new joinees get very little work (it's called BENCH in IT)... yet at theThe one who has loved and losthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15738489354623134522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-50632977004776931342008-09-01T21:28:00.000+05:302008-09-01T21:28:00.000+05:30You hit the nail on the head! You know whats worse...You hit the nail on the head! You know whats worse? These kind of people advising you not to work "this" hard!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12689521778133988403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-64620635151520871482008-09-01T20:39:00.000+05:302008-09-01T20:39:00.000+05:30True indeed. And some people, like you say, come w...True indeed. And some people, like you say, come with this in-born talent of verbalization where doing next to nothing would seem such gigantically enormous feats. You cant help admiring these folksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425148.post-22629632718786932052008-09-01T20:28:00.000+05:302008-09-01T20:28:00.000+05:30You're scaring/prompting jobless people like me to...You're scaring/prompting jobless people like me to unjoin/join the corporate world. The slashes represent who i want to be, whether the efficient time manager or the "acting" manager. No, i wont tell you which one i'm intending to be! :) <BR/><BR/>P.S. No wonder Dilbert strips are so popular!thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110093064122573431noreply@blogger.com