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Occasionally, I suspect that my job is underutilizing me. Some of the work could be done, I thought, by just about anyone. Most of it you'd want someone more reliable and detailed-oriented for, but some of it doesn't even really require a trained monkey.[1]
Until today, I could understand how my insistance on making up any lost time could be seen as perhaps a little odd (I didn't like it, but you know). But so help me, I thought that the job of counting the number of attendees on a list and typing the total into a little box was one of those things anybody could do.
No.
Apparently this is Difficult Work. Apparently this requires rare and specialized training. Apparently my predecessor not only couldn't remember to use the right list of attendees for one meeting, but even when she *did* use the right list of attendees basic math was beyond her.
Sweet merciful Christ.
I realize I'm good at my job. I just hate it that this is so remarkable.
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[1] This is in fact the way I look at much of my work, which tends to be mechanical and rote. A monkey could do it, but it would have to be a trained monkey, and attempts by humans to do the work without the training tends to not work. At all. Really. And then you need trained humans to sort it out. You couldn't get monkeys to do that part of it. Monkeys would fling poo, which would not be conducive to a proper work environment. Humans, on the other hand, only rant on LiveJournal.
Until today, I could understand how my insistance on making up any lost time could be seen as perhaps a little odd (I didn't like it, but you know). But so help me, I thought that the job of counting the number of attendees on a list and typing the total into a little box was one of those things anybody could do.
No.
Apparently this is Difficult Work. Apparently this requires rare and specialized training. Apparently my predecessor not only couldn't remember to use the right list of attendees for one meeting, but even when she *did* use the right list of attendees basic math was beyond her.
Sweet merciful Christ.
I realize I'm good at my job. I just hate it that this is so remarkable.
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[1] This is in fact the way I look at much of my work, which tends to be mechanical and rote. A monkey could do it, but it would have to be a trained monkey, and attempts by humans to do the work without the training tends to not work. At all. Really. And then you need trained humans to sort it out. You couldn't get monkeys to do that part of it. Monkeys would fling poo, which would not be conducive to a proper work environment. Humans, on the other hand, only rant on LiveJournal.
