Comments on: How To Kill Productivity, Part I

By: sal

sal — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:19:19 +0000

I make it a point to not bother to try and do any work in the meeting dead zones. The result is just frustration. I’ve made it a point to use google reader and clean out my email “greybox”

By: rhobocop

rhobocop — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:26:53 +0000

yes smily, i very much feel your situation. i had that same thing happen to me as well, with a boss relocating too agravatingly close to my own desk and constantly disrupting my work. how odd! i also found that i got very little out of the rare meetings that he held. i believe i would have been more attentive and absorbed more if the information had been relayed to us in a bullet-point filled email.

By: smily

smily — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:09:13 +0000

I also had a slightly different but equally non-productive situation where I work. The boss used to sit in his own separate office but then one day we moved buildings and he was sitting right next to us. He would regularly interrupt us, sometimes it was work related but usually not. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a nice guy and we’re not the antisocial coder types but being constantly interrupted while trying to figure out some complex piece of code was really counter productive. Plus we were always on edge with this feeling of being watched constantly. I couldn’t concentrate at all and neither could anybody else, we all became extremely crabby and I seriously started thinking about leaving…Thankfully we moved again and he’s once again across the hall from us and I can finally get back to getting things done…