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Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was working as a stockboy in a supermarket and when we had to fill the milk cooler people would bust open a 12 pack of milk cartons and put them in one by one.

On my first day I just placed the 12 pack in the cooler and cut the plastic off on one side with my box cutter and yanked it from under it and the look of the store manager and the other employee who was training me was pure bewilderment.

From that day everyone did it my way.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I had a manager at work who did not handle tech well. He had a period of unavailability every Friday as he had to do a weekly report.

I walked in on him doing that report, which took been two and four hours, because he be was manually copying hundreds of numbers from a csv file to a report document. By hand!

He was writing down each number in a notepad, using a pen, then switched to the reporting doc and wrote it back, one line at a time.

It took me less than 5 minutes to write an excel macro that did his weekly report automatically, with extra bells and whistles to boot.

This was the absolute worst example of work hard not smart I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He didn't even print it, take a photo, and then scan it back in? What an absolute nerd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

At a different job, I had someone print an email, put it in an envelope and post it to an external faxing service...

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