Y’all know I get bored when I’m alone and I’m solo for much of the day. So feel free to unfollow me now. I’ll probably update 20 more times before it’s over. But. The captain just came on the loudspeaker and said they’re working with maintenance on an issue and have to shut down the plane for 20 seconds and for nobody to stress. (I guess turning it off and back on again really IS the fix for everything). Someone behind me just whispered to his wife, “we should all start screaming when the plane goes dark” and I feel like I’ve found a new friend. 😂 Also, I had a shot of Jameson in Dennis Williams’ honor. (at 7 am. God bless an airport bar). I couldn’t be more safe. He’s looking out for me. Off we go! (Once they turn the plane back on) . . . . . #upsideofflorida #upsideofpensacola #americanairlines #turnitoffandonagain #maintenance #solotravel #sarahgoestocali #floridatocalifornia #crosscountry #jameson #cheers #technicalissues #catchflightsnotfeelings #jk #catchflightsANDfeelings #sayzaandjobeans #herewego (at Pensacola International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9JwMY2DSsZ/?igshid=1ups4p76f0zo5
when you finally meet your match with technology and your computer randomly does a weird one you PLEASE LET ME FINISHE MY ASSIGNMENTS #haveyouturneditoffandonagain #turnitoffandonagain #itcrowd #expressions #face #error #404 #brainnotfound #mad #angry #shorthairbutireallyfreakingcare #unilife #graphicdesign #techsupport https://www.instagram.com/p/BunkX-YFHqV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oxjfnw6tlct7
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the complete lack of initiative in people. I can’t count the number of times a day I get asked a question that somebody could have found the answer to themselves if they’d just tried – but the first instinct of people seems to be to immediately pass it on, absconding from any form of responsibility.
There is a lot of criticism that gets aimed and Gen Y, and Gen Z now, about being lazy and entitled and I have to agree with it – but it isn’t just those generations, everybody seems to be doing it. If somebody can’t even try to search for an answer from the company intranet, or they give up at the first sign of an error message, what chance have they got at overcoming any real life problems?
I’ve stopped responding to emails like this, where all I’m asked to do is something the sender could have done themselves if they could be arsed.
Now perhaps I’m being too harsh, so I want to make the distinction between genuine requests for help, which everybody needs, and attempts to pass the buck, which nobody needs. Take some responsibility, have a go, fucking try something first!
You understand my frustration, I know. There’s so many examples of this kind of thing in the workplace, I’d be very surprised if you can’t immediately think of at least one person who plays the ‘please can you Google this for me’ card on a regular basis. And if it’s you, stop it.
Is it actually their fault though?
Maybe not.
We live in a world where everything is instant; we want it all and we’d have liked it all yesterday to be honest, but ASAP will do (I just want to point out that I hate ASAP more than any other acronym in existence, because it’s fucking meaningless. All tasks are done ‘as soon as possible’. Oh, what’s that? You mean you want it done quicker than is possible? Well why didn’t you say that, if you’d put QTIP…I still wouldn’t have done it any quicker. Because I hate you. And your children.)
This kind of environment where everything happens at the swipe of a finger or click of a button leads to impatience. If you want any proof of this, the next time you receive a WhatsApp message, read it but don’t reply. I guarantee you they’ll text again.
This impatience then, moving down Dante’s Inferno of Laziness, leads to situations where if people are not getting everything instantly they think there is a problem. These problems start to stack up and all of a sudden they’re overwhelmed. They now believe they’re too busy to do everything and so they stop taking action and start ‘escalating’.
These escalations are largely along the lines of ‘I pressed the logon button and it didn’t work, was I supposed to type my logins first?’ except they don’t even add that clarification, that’s simply for your benefit as a reader of what would otherwise be a long and tedious email exchange if I transcribed it fully (Lazy, I know).
Once in you’re in this Circle of Laziness, there is no getting out. You might as well beat yourself repeatedly with your keyboard, or smash your face through the monitor, there really is no hope for you.
And all you needed to do is have a little patience; or some initiative to try more than one solution; or at the very least, one solution.
I’m not sure there is an easy fix to this downward spiral, and it isn’t necessarily a people problem, it’s an environment problem. While ever people expect instant, anything less will lead to this chaos. One thing we could do though is use a general rule of thumb that if you have access to Google or Youtube, go here first for your solution. We literally have more knowledge at our fingertips than ever before, and that resource grows on a daily basis – it’s so unlikely that you’re the first person with your problem, there is bound to be at least a starting point out there.
I know this won’t work for everything, as I said – there are instances where you need to ask other people for help, I completely get that, but the motivation for this came from generally menial problems that could very easily be fixed with a little effort.
What’s that, your web browser isn’t working? Have you checked your router?
So....hopefully this is fixed in time for my stream tonight but it seems Twitch is not running at the moment...might not be able to stream tonight cause a lot of pieces of my stream require that to work... 😅 will try to stay updated on it - twitch support Twitter claims it's fixed.........looks so fixed.... - #epicfail #turnitoffandonagain #getfonzytohitit #anything #stillbroken
