Wasting time...
Sometimes I'm convinced that work is really about managing wasted time. Ya zig ya zag and in the end all you know for sure is that time is missing. I feel sorry for those that zigged and zagged under the assumption that their time wasn't wasted when in fact.. we knew it all along.. yep that time was wasted.
Wasting time, I think, is one of the biggest morale erroding aspects of today's workplace. When people feel the impact of wasted time it stirs up all kinds of emotions. We huddle around and have a meeting about lost time, how to prevent lost time and how to evade the vile evil of lost time.
Lost time usually occurs when leadership is non-existant or goes bad or when worker bees feel that loss of connection with the greater work objective. When you lose your baton in the race going back for it seems like a major no no, you're better off sitting it out and contemplating your lost time. If ya go back for the baton, well, we all know that drill, will that cause us to lose more time? Losing time breeds uncertainty within our own being.
Sometimes we dance with time, we know we should go forward but someone or something stands in your way and asks you to dance with time. Dancing is a stop gap before the realization that yes, even that dancing was actually wasted time.
I think I compartmentalize wasted time. I save it up, all bundled and ready to unleash in some form, maybe a wicked 360 in the mini or the cranking of a good song - make it loud, hear me damnit, someone hear me!!
Ways to prevent wasted time. Stop blogging about it. It's gone, get over it. Though its nice to write about something that you probably wouldn't ever really write about unless it tucked on your shirt long enough. That in itself is worth blogging, save the note, save for all time. Leak your thoughts into the google machine.
In the end, I wasn't really reflecting on my time being wasted, I was watching anothers and observing the loss of time impacts on them.
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