Yep, sums up every advancement ever made in human history Random hunter: "Why do I need to keep running after animals for food every day when I could capture some and have them keep making babies here?" *Domestication is invented* Random ancient merchant: "Why walk all that distance and tire myself out carrying all this shit when I can get an animal to do it? Hey!" 💡 *Animal labor is invented* Some ancient people who needed to get to something just across the river for some reason: "Why should we get our clothes wet, risk our lives swimming across this watery death trap, waste all that time walking up river finding a shallow enough part to walk across when we could build some sort of platform right here to get to that thing we need? Wait a minute!"💡 *Bridges are invented* A guy in a market having a hard time trading: "What the hell do you mean you don't want to barter my product for your product because you don't like my product! Wait a minute you like gold right? We can all agree gold is valuable and it doesn't spoil and its weight stays constant so we can have consistent prices right? Hey I think I'm onto something here" *Currency is invented* *Also probably the world's first banker*
How could I forget the most important one The King with sword drawn: "How could you forget the total amount grain we have in stock your fuckin job is to keep track of that shit!" The granary master: "Well I'm sorry I can't memorize how much grain comes in through here every single day for every year in perfect memory for the rest of my life! It's not like I can draw how many there are on some kind of- heeeeyyyyyyyy" *The concept of numbers and by consequence writing down information is invented*
Never tell your boss about a shortcut you found/developed. They wont reward you the way you deserve and they are already keeping too big of a cut of the profits. If they want to benefit from innovation, they at least need to pay for it
Yes. I designed a machine that could have done my (horribly mundane) job I once had for me. But I scrapped it because I realised it could have replaced me and I need money lol.
I was told about a case. A guy did the project for an assembly line and forwarded the project to upper management. Project was implemented, he was not payed and quit next month. Was an amazing guy too.
maybe Oz is even more different than i thought. But everytime I have an innovation, i work it out completely, write up a proposal and then talk to teh boss. Hey boss if i come up with a plan that automates this or reduces this 4 hour job into 10 minutes will you give me $X or buy me Y Graphics Card. When they say yes, i hand them the proposal. When they ask when i can have it completed, i usually say I will install it now. I never bother just drafting the proposal becuase if they say no I will just do use anyway, not tell them and delete it when i leave. That said no one has ever said no.
I have automated basically 99% of my job right now, I have even told my boss and all my co-workers about it... The funny part is that people don't quite understand how much of automation I have done and can be done, so I am essentially at a point where no one knows about all the automation and time-saving that I do even though I tell everybody about it.
I'd do this too, but they always make so many different kinds and change them ever so slightly by the time I come to buy more and they're too damn expensive to buy 20 of in one go.
My mother will not agree to this kind of logic. A few days earlier, she asked me to scrape some coconuts, to cook some curry. Now I'm the one who always has to do it because my sister is dead terrified of blades. I'm not exactly scared but every time I use the scraper, it's absolutely exhausting and I always end up with a few cuts here and there on my hands and arms. So I asked my mother to buy some of the powdered coconut powder. Or a coconut milk carton. And she really said, "I'm not lazy enough to buy processed foods." Well if you're not lazy enough then do it yourself mom. I'm running out of band aids.
If your mom would be okay with shredded coconut (idk if that’s the same as scraped coconut), maybe just use a cheese grater - I bet it’d be faster, and possibly harder to cut yourself on than a knife!
^ If the cheese grater works, you can take the laziness factor one step further by getting your sister to do it, since it no longer involves a blade ;)
Yees...I'm not sure how you do it but I think there might be a tool for that. Check out coast of East Africa and how they do it. It's pretty mechanical and made of wood.
The most important part of automating a task is to never let anyone know you've automated it. Sure, you don't get any credit for your genius solution, but you actually get paid. That's more important
No, the most important part is to ask for more work that you can automate further. Make yourself indispensable. Don't just automate one process. Automate everything you run across. Become known as the person who gets things done in the quickest and most efficient way possible. If you're known for that rather than, "oh, you did that one thing that one time and screw around all day now..." Yeah, you're firable. Most people who automate a single system are kind of stupid and don't realize they've got a marketable skillset... and then don't market that skillset... and then wonder why their bosses thought they weren't useful anymore.
@@oliverholm3973 No, you said the most important part is to not let people know you automated it. It's weird to me that you dont' remember what you wrote.
@@XxTaiMTxX Riiiiight, and why do you think you're supposed to not let people know that you've automated it? Because then people don't think you're doing nothing all day. Like, did you think I just... Didn't want people to know? For the sole reason of them not knowing? Are you incapable of elaborating upon a process on your own?
@@oliverholm3973 Uh... What are you even arguing now? I already refuted this point with my initial post. You feeling okay, man? To reiterate my point once more (since you seem incapable of reading): You tell people you automated the process and then offer to automate more processes and offer to take on more work to streamline more. You market the skill so that you become indispensable. That is, you become unfirable. You do this so that you become too valuable to lose. If you automate one thing and then sit on your hands the rest of the day and don't do any more work and don't prove yourself valuable beyond the single skill you had... Why would anyone keep you? You're a lazy worker not worth anything except fixing a single issue. I've built my entire career on automating and streamlining processes. It's how I get jobs and how I keep from ever being fired or losing those jobs. I make the promise that I will work hard to reduce the workload and get the reports and then I do it. Efficiency is the name of the game.
I was doing a math test and didn't know how to do a problem. I'm not bad with numbers, but I didn't remembered the formula I had to use for the problem. So I said in my mind "f*ck this, I'll just try to use the logic and see if I can come with a wrong answer that doesn't look pathetic." Gotta say, I was surprised when the teacher gave me a good grade because apparently I was the only one of my class to find an alternative answer to the problem.
@@MAN_FROM_BEYOND This happened years ago, so I don't remember much of it. However I remember it was something about equations and inequalities (?). Despite being an easy test with simple formulas you had to study for pass it, my lazy ass couldn't care less. I didn't studied that much but got a nice grade anyway.
@Nemnemi 83 I was doing a maths project during the summer and instead of working it out i put it into an Excel spreadsheet and got full marks it took a while but it was easy.
Conclusion : learn how to program, do your 2 hours job in 10 minutes but never tell anyone about it. Then do what you want during your spare time (but always complain of how hard your job is 😂)
Exactly, this is the exact reason why getting payed by the hour is mentally retarded. Cause it punishes people who tell others that they do jobs more efficiently. So you have to keep it till your graves.
True but you’d definitely want that person in a higher position, time spent doing easy tasks is more time away doing harder ones. At least that’s how I justify being lazy.
Buy then don't tell your boss or all those gains will go to whoever owns the company and you'll see fuckall from it because your pay is based on how easy you are to replace, not how productive you are.
@@dynamicworlds1 the ironic part is they think these systems when they find out are truly permanently automated usually fire the worker it malfunctions and they don't know how to restart it then the guy basically gives them the finger when they call him and the company goes under since that one system they don't know how to work on does a majority of it for them to boot and they don't even realize it till its too late karma can be awesome sometimes
10:05 “Normally, if given the choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I will do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night if it meant nothing got done.” -Ron Swanson
i remember back in high school i actually found that kind of shortening math solution, condensing 2 pages worth of math formula into 3 lines. answered the whole thing in 30 minutes instead of the alloted 2 hours time. teacher got pissed and thought i was making shit up, so she tested my short form math and it worked. i still get 0 because i "didnt follow the textbook as she instructed". Many years later i found out she actually used my method and got some kind of award for it months after that test I was pissed, but its been over 5+ years so nothing i can do about it That was one of the two incidents that made me never want to trust adult anymore, and made me hate math because i thought its all about following the textbook instead of actually looking for the result, and im a lazy bastard.
Dunno what it was like back then, but condensing big problems is something that’s taught nowadays, at least in some places. I learned a bit about that in Khan Academy.
I can so relate; Av always hated math well my math teachers annoyed me school in general so I would find methods to get answer right and done quickly yet effectively it worked well in primary to me math was about the answer the solution how u got there never should matter. Suprise suprise when I get to high school suddenly there were methods and formulas to get the answer. Long dreadingly annoying methods given by the teachers u need to follow and if u don't it doesn't matter what your answer is if the 6 steps for a 6 mark question aren't there then it's a fail 😒. So I always repeated the equation on the first step, simplified on the second and show maybe 2 more steps according to the method and give out my answer at least i lost 1/2 points but I can still pass. Turns out I just hated structure and being told what to do it was never about math 😅. am lazy but my mind is always quick I just don't get why I need to show you how I got my answer when you're the teacher and should know already even worse why do I have to do it your way!. School really does kill minds sometimes 😒😔
Your math teacher gave you that zero out of pure spite because you figured something clever out that she didn't or couldn't think of herself. What you did is E X A C T L Y what math is about: finding more elegant solutions to the problems that exist. Please don't hate math because of a spiteful shit teacher. It's incredible and beautiful that you figured out a more elegant solution to a problem on a test.
"I'm convinced Engineers are inherently lazy people that will spend a disproportionate effort to make things easier" HAHAHA! For them, maybe, I'm a mechanic and can guarantee they spend the least amount of time to make MY job easier. Sometimes I'm left scratching my head wondering if the engineer even spent a second thinking "If I did maintenance on this thing, is it even possible to do it?"
Maybe it's just easier for them to manufacture the cars like that, considering the new trend of disposable products, I wouldn't doubt if they intentionally make the cars harder to service.
Believe me it can get worse. I worked 5 Years in Industrial deconstruction. No one ever thinks about "what will be in 40 Years when they get rid of it for newer stuff?" I once got an Structure of HEB build so near a wall that it was impossible to get the screws out. And because we are talking about Industry ... that was ofc an zone with high explosion risks. So no cutting tools allowed. So basically the guys who build that thing had it build and then used a crane to get it into place. Which means we had to get a Crane to get a simple 1,5 ton structure moved to disassemble it. And here is were it gets really good. The new Tech needed a support structure too. Which again was placed via a Crane because again ... if the distance between wall and Support structure is thinner than a piece of Paper, then its in Place. Since then i moved on. Im now in the production again. Hurray ..... nope. Think sub power Stations, and everything needed for rail network. A big well known Company (cant name it), that makes everything from Smartphones to TV to Energy Structures. They cant do an fucking Technical Drawing. There are all the measurements on the Drawing, even the unnecessary ones. Like you know: I got the total length i got the length from one end to the hole i got the length from the other end to the same hole One of these measurements is unnecessary and just irritating. Especially if you have 24 holes to drill in that one Profile and all have these unnecessary informations.There is an slight Information overload and it gets a bit ...... hard to find what you are looking for. And ofc .... they cant do simple layout. Where is the Front of the Object? In the middle where it belongs? nope ... its on the far right. Where are the 2 sides of the object? On the left and below the front. Whats in the middle you ask? The upper side. Where is the downward side? Next to the whole "AA/BB/AB" cut sections if your lucky. If not, you get 5 Din A2 Pages completly random put together. But you need al lof them because every fucking Piece is splattered across all of those. So i have to go through all the Drawings just to find where the hell i am supposed to drill the Hole in the L Profile .... Because the Drawing with the L Profile has also the HEB and the Foot Plates and the "No Paint" Sections on it ... but not the measurement for the fucking hole i need. But on every drawing there is ofc some Information that got highlighted with Marker. Because why the hell do a Drawing for the Welders? Or one for the Paint Department. Nope, i, standing at the Drill, need to know that the Weatherside of the L needs to be silicon sealed. Ohh and ofc there is no Compass on it .. .so the guys doing the silicon have no clue what the Weatherside is. And now remember that these Engineers get paid at least 4x my Hourly Wage. They get all "Project done well" from the Customer and Management, they also always get the goodies when some Supplier comes around with some Mugs, Hats, and "Toys" as gift. And ofc ... they are never at fault if a Project takes longer than planned. Because telling the boss "the drawings are shit" gets translated in the Boss´s head as "i cant read technical drawings and therefore spend hours before i do my work." So happy that i leave that Company next Year for a competitor.
I'm an electrician, let me tell you, if what I have seen on some blueprints constitutes fit for an engineer, then I have zero competition. They will throw me out of university for being over qualified!
Well isn't engine/machine were thing that used to give human some advantage in works? I mean, i don't have any degrees engineering or so. But i got that quote from 2009 indian movie called "3 idiots"
Exactly! Working smart isn't lazy. And it takes a great mind to come up with these solutions. Makes no sense to spend time working "harder" and dedicated 5 extra hours a day towards something that can be done in 15 minutes.
@@yazajag nah man my laziness is why i worked more efficiently, always want things done but dont wanna spent much time on it.. Became the fastest most efficient worker at my previous job..
I was hired for an industrial designer job at a sanitization company, we had several projects at once, one required to make a frame for a reflective screen to bounce off UV light that was both compressible and easy to handle. My very first suggestion was to use a system similar to blind people's foldable batons. No one listened to me. Two months, several missed deadlines later, a fired sub-manager and several threats by the owner later, they "had the brilliant idea" of using the system of the blind batons. By then, I had finished and optimized all the designs they needed, so they proceeded to NOT renew my 3 month trial contract because I had finished designing everything they needed and didn't. Need a designer anymore.
Should have went back home, make your own prototype, bring it straight to the head of department and offer a one off deal to get it done for a big cut. Cuts the banter and wasted time.
One day in physics there we had to build a 'city' and have some worksheets done. Everyone else started doing the hard task which was the worksheets, we did the city first. One of the students said: "You're just doing the city so you can steal the answers after, we are done." It happened that the teacher was listening and also asked us: "Yeah, that is probably true, but they work smarter not harder." I usually dont like the teacher, but he was right for once
i've made this argument on my own behalf at my office job. I'm not exceptionally smart, i'm just lazy enough to figure out how to do the same task with fewer keystrokes. That said, avoid letting your bosses in on the secret, they'll make the process mandatory, raise the work-per-hour standards, and not give anybody a raise or compensation for the new process that is saving the company anywhere from hundreds to hundreds-of-thousands of dollars.
I've made my career on doing this... except telling people how I do it. :D I don't automate myself out of jobs. I automate myself into jobs. I take on the extra work. I use that extra work to pad my resume. I use that resume to apply for jobs that will pay me more. I automate every system I run across (including completely analogue ones). Some people are only smart enough to get themselves fired after being useful for a single thing. Others are smart enough to realize that if you market this skillset and apply it constantly and use it everywhere (even asking for more work), then you can profit massively from doing so as well as fix a lot of the stupid issues whomever you're working for has. My current job was: "Answer questions that come in from customers by phone and work insurance claims that have stopped for review". They moved me over from doing that to, "Fix policy and procedure on Training for those jobs, Fix policy and procedure for keeping logs of the calls, Fix policy and procedure for working the claims that stopped for review, maintaining employee records and important documents, and answering questions from fellow coworkers when they get a question they can't answer on the phone". This is in the span of 8 months. I'm being paid substantially more than my coworkers. I basically spend my entire day running reports, reworking documents, QA Testing, and answering questions rather than the job I was hired to do. Fun fact: The stuff I'm doing now? It's the reason I was hired for the job. I campaigned for the job by promising to do these things. They gave it to me on the basis of getting these things done. The caveat for them was, "I need to learn how these systems work and how staff interact with them in order to be effective" so the first 6 months of the job were doing that. A smart man fishes for a day. A wise man teaches everyone how to fish for him, rewards them for it, finds easier ways for them to do it, and then makes those people thankful that they're doing his work for them.
i worked i a small law firm and automated so many things they put in charge of IT and got me to run a complete system replace, cost half a million in 1996. I then proceeded to automate even more and train the staff and tell them to ask me to make any job easier and i will do my best. The staff, mostly married females, werent keen on learning new things even though it made their job easier. They tried the same argument. My response was each lawyer needs us, they cant do without us, but if we 10 can do the work 14 we can negotiation to split the wages of 12 people among ourselves, and if we can do the work of 14 people, trust me i will be able to prove it with data.
21:38 for anybody who's curious. I may be lazy, but, I appreciate those who enjoy automation. Therefore, I did it for the genius who doesn't want to watch a video at 2x speed until they find it.
23:16 the Canadians employed a BEAR. They got a BEAR to do their job. This is beautiful EDIT: omfg they got a sniper to shoot honey at the poles to make the bear shake them.
Holy shit I never knew this was a thing. I've been telling this to people for like 20 years now. I always get complimented on my efficiency. I always state it's because I'm lazy and I just want to get back to fucking off.
Same! Whenever anyone at work compliments me on doing things faster/ easier I just tell them "remember.. I'm lazy.. if there's an easier way, i'll find it"
As an engineer, I can verify that we are just highly creative yet lazy people who will find the most time-efficient way to do something while putting in the least effort possible.
This just makes me want to go study computer science later in life and get some sort of job and automate it but not tell nobody and even complain about all the work and just get payed for doing nothing.
I've always called myself "lazy-productive". I rarely met creative minds who found better, faster, and more effecient ways to do a job. They always follow step by step commanded by incompetent management who just received a managerial degree without any real life experience.
Managerial degrees are laughable. Why? It isn't the "no real life experience". It's the "Hey, nobody really knows how management is supposed to function except old-school military generals, so we just guess and train people to do that". Nah, brah, that ain't how it works. Management exists to make work easier for the employees. Management is meant to DIE for their employees. Management is meant to take on ALL THE STRESS their employees would have. Management exists to provide backup, solutions, work direction, and efficiency to their employees. If you're a manager and you don't go home every single day: 1. Emotionally exhausted. 2. Physically exhausted. 3. Socially exhausted. 4. Psychologically exhausted. You're a crap manager and you should quit. You should be able to do anything your employees do... as good as... if not BETTER than they do it. You should also be willing to fill in for them when they need the help. Likewise, you should also be the one making their jobs easier and taking the "crap jobs" off their plates so they can more effectively do what they were hired for. Management classes don't teach any of this. People who hire managers/supervisors don't even know these are the expectations and don't hire accordingly either.
Most creative minds are smart enough to know that automating things just creates more work, so it's better to make yourself look busy than to actually be busy.
Same at my first work. I was supposed to deliver building materials to different places and all I got was a handwritten map. I just checked the delivery Adress on the papers and set it in to my Google GPS. If I couldn't find the Adress on Google I just checked other sites for GPS coordinates. They still thought I was too slow delivering stuff, because I'd usually take some time to roll upp the tie down lines while talking to the customers. I did this so next loading would be faster, also I managed get a good relationship with customers and they usually came back buying more stuff, almost allways something I recommended them doing while rolling upp the lines. After I was layed off a co-worker of mine said that alot of costumers stopped coming and general followup sales went down 20%.
When I was 19, I just started at a salesman job. And the manager decided to test a few people for the job and give us pointless tasks. He gave me a stack of paper wich we used to finish the sale and told me to count one by one so he know how many are there. I took the thing and went to the supply room, just looked the serial number at the first page, the last page and subtracted them. I spent maybe 2h just chilling on my phone, texting and when he came to see how I was doing I told him the exact amount. We went downstair and as he was explaining the prank he pulled on me, I just told him the pages were numbered and I finished in 10 seconds while everyone else was still doing stuff. I got hired
All throughout grade school, during English class, essays would always follow the same routine. Write out "rough draft", hand it in to be evaluated, type out "final draft" with new corrections. My senior year I got fed up with the same old song and dance that I just got into the habit of typing out my "rough drafts" and saving them on my computer. That way all I had to do was to make a few corrections to the file and re-print the "final draft". Teacher didn't like my method, but I argued "What's the difference and why is it a problem?", she let it slide
one time i was playing a game, you may have heard of it, its called terraria. i was playing 1.3 for the first time, and was struggling with the final boss, the moon lord, so i came up with a way to easily cheese it: build a really long minecart track and use the fastest cart in the game build a house for the nurse at one end of the track( the nurse is an npc that heals you to full hp) and put a roof over the track the roof completely nullifies most of its attacks, the track lets me easily dodge the attacks the roof doesnt make useless while focusing on attacking, and the nurse can heal me if my hp gets a little too low with this setup all i would need is some good armor, a good ranged weapon, a weapon that goes through blocks, and 2 potions(specifically ironskin and regen), and im set as of 1.4, the moon lords most powerful attack goes through blocks, making the roof a bit less useful, i think most of its other attacks still cant go through blocks so you should still use it all because i was too lazy to just get good
I did the exact same thing. I never played summoner before. I tried magic, melee, range, and I just couldn’t do it. I decided to put the nurse in a box, get a bunch of summoning minons, honey to heal the nurse, and just spam heal the nurse, killed him in abt 2 min
I think that's what everyone did, that's my clearest memory of playing 1.3 that I have :D I'm sad that they removed that cheese in 1.4, it was so much fun
I had an internship at the US Copyright Office in 2013. One of the attorneys had a list of quotes from a specific book, and she wanted me to find the coordinating page number for each quote. The book was thick. Instead of reading the book, I hopped on Google books and typed in key words from each quote to find the page number. I finished the task in 20 minutes.
I was doing an online test for a job interview that detected if I had multiple tabs open so I couldn't look up the answers. I wasn't being recorded, so I got out my phone and looked up the answers that way. The best part was one of the questions in the interview was "how would you find an answer to a question you don't know?" I answered that I would look up the answer on my phone because it is always with me. I indirectly admitted to the interviewer that I cheated on the test and they never knew. I got the job and am still here 3 months later.
While I was grinding a game, I had to go to the bathroom, so I asked my dad to hold a key, A SINGLE KEY for me, and I come back after 5 minutes, and he built A WHOLE CONTRAPTION OUT OF DIFFERENT SIZED AND TILTED OBJECTS TO HOLD DOWN THAT KEY
I miss playing Tyrian where there was a level (Asteroid) where it paused the vertical scrolling until you'd destroyed a turret. It turns out that the turret fires these flying saucers and you can keep shooting them for points. If you have the right guns you can do this as long as you like, rack up high scores and purchase all the weapons upgrades for the next level. I'd just tape the space bar down so I could go do something else for a while.
Don't make it to easy, or better, don't tell em your secret because you won't get a raise but will be made redundant and some poor smuck will do the same job for less.
A company I worked at many years ago had an incentive program. If you came up with a way to save/increase profits, they would figure out how much they would save over the course of a year. They then awarded you half of that first years savings. Knew some guys who made more than a years salary for their idea.
Oh man, the first story hit home. As a former shelf stacker I did this (pretty much anything in cardboard or with plastic wrap sealed at the bottom will work for this) and completely destroyed my target of stocking one box (8 units) per minute. I'd finish my cart in about 5 minutes and then took a break in the back. By the time management found out about my subterfuge, they cut my hours by about 80%, but joke's on them, by that time I'd finished studying and just continued to work there for the pocket money. I'd been there for like 10 years at that point (started at 16, stopped at 27), so the tenure brought a huge hourly wage, and I only worked sundays anyway so the pay was doubled on top of that. I was very happy to roll out of bed, stock some shit, and go back to sleep 2 hours later. Still earned me 60 euros a week on top of my other full time salary. That's health insurance plus extra coverage done and paid for right there. I quit when my career took off and I got offered my hourly sunday wage as my hourly wage outright. Still have fond memories of the store though!
4:44 actually, Gauss was a genius in his childhood days, and the teacher gave him this extra task, hoping to keep him quiet for a while. That's what I got taught in Germany
Yes, but that would still have meant climbing. By flattening it, they completely eliminated the obstacle. It's the same reason people put so much effort into tunneling through mountains. You _could_ climb over it, but that's not very convenient.
I was a lazy math kid but my teachers hated it so much I just started drawing on the tests because I was being penalized for doing it faster and simpler.
That’s true but every time I’ve worked in retail specifically, they never want their stupid systems changed. They have a way and you’re supposed to do it their way. Doesn’t matter if your way is more efficient both time and energy wise. That’s why a lot of people in retail just fell like mindless zombies because the environment tries to keep them in line doing their tasks mindlessly
My job still fils in lottery tickets on paper, and we still check the register with a paper counting sheet. I already asked why we don’t do it in excel. They said they want to do it this way because they always have…
16:20 Diogenes actually gave up the bowl after seeing a child drinking from his hands. He also famously disputed the most simple description of man (featherless bipid) by plucking a chicken and throwing it at the philosopher who originally came up with it.
Had a algebra teacher try to flunk me because I’d find the laziest way to show my work for those ridiculously long problems. She had kids handing in 5+ sheets of paper for 20 math problems. I’d do it with one sheet and come up with the correct answer but because I didn’t do it by the book with 10+ lines per problem my answers were “wrong” lol.
There are three types of lazy people: 1. They don't do it and expect someone else to do it for them. 2. They take more time and expend more effort to find a way to avoid a once-off task than it would have taken to just do it. 3. They figure out an easy way to do it.
A couple of years ago I was briefly engaged in a job where I undertook Assurance work for audits (essentially checking data supplied by clients and transferring it to an Excel Spreadsheet). As part of the traing for this I had to undertake training in Accounting for Business at an off-site training centre. The trainer insisted upon using "T Accounts" (where one side is Credit and the other side is Debit) for all mathematical problems - a system that I simply could not get my head around. So when he once set a question that looked complicated, he explained the answer using his preferred method of a "T Account" - I had found a much simpler method using old-fashioned mathematics that I learned at school. And it worked just as well!
I once took a crocheting class in middle school and when the teacher was showing us the normal way of making a scarf I went ahead and just winged it using what little I knew and as many shortcuts as possible and and the assistant teacher told me that she's never seen someone do it like that, and that it actually worked better. But I have no interest in ever crocheting again
I work for an IT company that put new computers into dental practices or refreshes their old computers, I made several scripts to automate the on boarding process. But my biggest achievement was opening the boxes upside down so we don’t have to deal with all the cardboard pieces as well as a keyboard and mouse when taking out the computers. The head of the department before I took his position literally took me aside and said “you can’t be showing me up like that”
I guess this isn’t really lazy (all though, the reason I did this was to be lazy), but during March-May we had online assignments. We had 2-3 assignments to complete each week for each class. They were pretty easy and didn’t take too much time, so I would finish them all on Monday and Tuesday. Basically I had 2 days of barely school, and 5 days to do nothing at all.
I did night school to get my HS diploma. We were given all assignments required for each class to earn the credit if we asked for it. Being lazy I spent a weekend completing every single assignment for all classes. I then made a copy of each assignment and turned everything in that Monday. The next 2 weeks were spent sitting in each class listening to music/sleeping till all of it was graded then I didn’t have to show back up till the 2nd half of the year. Basically I did 3.5 years worth of high school credits in 4 days so I could do nothing for the other 361 days. Oh and the assignments I made copies of were sold to others throughout the year making me a little over $1k lol
Was starting at a new job and was being trained by the lady I was replacing (who also happened to be the owner's friend). Every day we were required to pull up the weather reports for certain locations were jobs were being done and create a digital copy. This lady was printing and scanning every single report. So I tried to tell her that you can just save the page as a pdf and skip all of that. She went off on me and told me off. The next day, the owner almost fired me because her friend had reported me for "talking back and not being serious about learning the job." After this lady finally left, I started doing the reports my way. My direct manager ran into my office and demanded to know how I did that because it would save them a ton of money.
I was embedded at a customer site for several years. I made a suggestion on a programming change/addition to collect data from the assembly lines. It would allow them to collect the data on their body shop (car plant) and determine which machine/station was the slowest. I told them focus in on only the 5 worst on the list once it's running. Took a year to reprogram over 100 controllers to collect the data. Once it was ready the data came flowing in. Imported to a simple spreadsheet and then sorted by cycle time gave them a task list on what to work on. The first quarter it was running I was told they had 27 million dollars more come off the assembly line.
2:12 thats an amazing math teacher every math teacher i had would remove points if you didn't come to the answer the "correct" way even if the answer was indeed correct
I’m a lazy but smart person, and one time when I was with my mom going to the salon that she partially owned and my mom asked me to rock the babies cradle do you know the one that you put inside of the car so I found a wire and what I decided to do was wrap the wire around the handle that I was supposed to hold and I shook the wire back-and-forth Big brain game
I’m a forklift (all machines) operator, who just so happens to be self taught in multiple wms. The programmer who did the initial set up left years ago so IT has been slowly working to keep it relevant to changes. One major flaw the system had (which specifically effected me) was the system would automatically add locations to restock, what it didn’t account for is the new modules. So we can’t put a pallet of 300 small cases in a short shoebox sized rack, and we couldn’t edit moves so we had to radio them in and have someone else who does have permission to edit the amount change it. All I did was go to the upstairs office, and talk to our IT guy and he let me add in a few new parameters effectively adding 4 new types of locations, the ability to adjust moves size, and to see where you were going with it before you picked it up (also a big problem because you’d waste time picking up a load only to put it back) I’m working to fix that problem now because it makes you replant the location you pick up from. We did put a shit ton of work into building a new inventory database all December since the shutdown has everything so slow and now each rack is effectively it’s own database and not just 1 bulk number. Eg you have 500 pallets of product A and 300 of B. Where tf is A located? How many is on a pallet? A whole pallet needs shipped out so why pull a partial and rebuild when you could just pull a full from the top? That’s actually standard practice. These folks were writing locations on a board and having small teams manually build moves on the fly. Now that same small team only works to shift order priority.
Great video, i will watch the full video because i am procrastinating right now, should finish my After Effects project homework but i can't because it's the worst software ever.
As a night audit at a hotel I had to print out the housekeeping assignment sheet. There were buttons for Auto Assigning maids, but the person who trained me didn't know how it worked so we had to double click every individual room to assign it. Eventually I clicked the Auto Assign button to see what it did and found that it would assign up to 28 rooms (out of a 50 room hotel) so I was able to cut down on over half the clicking. Later, I noticed a value on part of the report creation page that matched the number of rooms being assigned. Out of curiosity I double clicked it to see if the value was change able. It was. Now creating the report takes about 5 clicks instead of 50-100.
My former coworker got a marketing job, large portion of his job was to read multiple documents on how much each product cost ($) and then mark it up. He used the “find” bar by typing “$” and skipped the reading. He said it saved him hours and was promoted a month or so later.
My wife once got a 2 month contract job to go through a CD with all the cities law firms and organise them into all the cities new districts. I googled a list of all the new districts and created a mapping table. Wrote a wild card txt file reader to import all the plain text data. Cross referenced and had it all done in under an hour. Did it after lunch came out of my study and said “sorry you now have nothing to do again for the next two months”
I didn't really like the full-time job thing. I became a personal trainer and made about $39/hr while working 24 hrs/week. That was still too much work, so I built my own home gym and started training people there. I now keep the entire $60/hr I charge, but took my hours down to just 16/week.
"Eating the food out of the pot so there's less dishes to wash" I literally started looking around to see if someone was watching me as I'm doing that right now.
Ive been called the "laziest hardworker" by many of my supervisors. Do a shitload of work that matters for a short amount of time and coast in between.
This is me every day. I make sure its done right and it the easiest least complicated way that I can. Some accuse me of smoking pot, stoner ingenuity, but sorry I don't use the herb.
Worked a summer job for Royal mail whilst at Uni, where I drove a van around delivering parcels. Got super-efficient planning my route and loading my van, so I was able to drive home and have breakfast with my mum when she woke up. Then did my deliveries so effectively I had time to go and sit in the park with a coffee and read the paper prior to returning to the depot at 12:00. Cleared a massive backlog of parcels in my time there, and at the end, the depot manager said I was the best parcel deliverer he had ever had, and I could come back to work there anytime!
I was in 1st grade at the time, we had only just really begun learning math. One day I was sitting at my desk waiting for the teacher to finish setting up, and I really enjoyed math as a kid so I would think up numbers to myself and try to make them into equations. I eventually wondered what would happen if you subtracted a number from zero, and long story short I taught myself the concept of negative numbers because I wasn’t sure what you’d do with the numbers besides leave the minus sign in front of it. I asked my teacher after class about my “discovery,” and she was pretty surprised. She asked if anyone else had taught me that and I said no I was just thinking for a bit, I then asked her when would we be learning about them. She said probably not until 4th or 5th grade, so I walked out feeling both smart but also disappointed because I wouldn’t get to learn more about them until I was older.
i’m that lazy employee. whenever i’m pushing carts back to where they belong and have to clean them with spray and wipe them with a really thin paper towel the towel always rips and gets stuck on my hands and thats a hassle to clean off, so one day i found a nice waterproof jacket that fits with the work uniform and i wear it everytime i go to work and instead of cleaning carts with towels i use my jacket sleeve. it’s convinient and makes customers smile
When traditional exp parties were a thing in Final Fantasy XI (before Abyssea expansions) I could grind my little heart out as a damage dealer or tank with my eyes literally closed by using a series of macros and going by sound.
I just remembered that I eventually got too lazy to farm, or go mining, or BCNMs or whatever so I made ten gardening mules. I even named them Gardenmulea to Gardenmulek. Never did try to finance something as exotic as a relic weapon, but it kept me in gear, sneak/invis items, food, etc. I called it legit RMT (real money trading).
I built systems upon systems to do tasks for a company. After I left, I found out that a consultant they hired to manage a project to replace everything I built was absolutely floored that one person had built it all. So far that project has cost them in three years twice what they paid me in nearly 10.
I recently worked as a caterer at a local university. For football games, we had typically had to bag custom color m&m knock offs into these tiny cellophane bags. They would usually mix the colors together in a large bowl, then use tiny ice scoops to fill the bags. Thing is, we had to twist and breadtie each bag. Most people would fill it, dump a bit out, then set them aside and tie them all in large groups. So I would lay out the exact number of bags i need.. What I found was that you could take the scoop, stick it in the bag as far as it'll go, then stick the scoops uncovered into the m&ms and just tilt it upright. And that was the perfect amount. So I would do that, while holding the tie. Then just drop the scoop in the bowl, a quick spin of the bag, tie, drop it in a box. I would have to do this like 200+ times. This usually took like 2+ hours the normal way. I timed myself and it took me an hour and a half at the most.
My friend works at a grocery store and literally just rolls crates of stuff up to where they’re supposed to be placed on shelves and just leaves them there in the crates. He’s done this for months and hasn’t gotten in trouble once. Lol
At work we have to enter every sorted barcode into the location individually when we want to locate and move stuff. My coworker figured out that if you just scan the pallet label on the pre sorted returns it will instantly scan any labels associated with that pallet to the location. This means that we don’t have to shuffle through finding and scanning dozens of labels and saves us considerable time when we do returns.
As a trainee in IT Systemintegration I was tasked to maintain an excel spread sheet that was used to keep track of all the network printers page counts. I was told this task was to be done monthly and usually takes an hour to complete because they wanted me to access the web interface of each printer and copy the page count from there. Instead of doing that I first spent half an hour cleaning the spreadsheet and then about an hour writing a PowerShell script that reads the up adresses from the excel sheet, runs a command to get the count rpm the printer and creates a new column with the date and writes the counts. All I had to do after that was to run the PowerShell script. But it actually doesnt even end here. No. We had an admin PC that was running 24/7 for severas scheduled tasks. I just added another task for my script and with that automated the 1 hour every month task to absolutely nothing.
Well, it saves each child nearly an hour every year, and it is used by hundreds of children, so a dozen kids investing three work days is still a good deal overall.
I call it progress. You can’t keep doing things in an archaic way forever. It’s like driving to work instead of walking. You’re not necessarily lazy, you’re just buying yourself an extra hour of the day
I worked at a call center for tech support I invented 2 questions that would literally cut the call time by atleast 50 percent I was asked to critique the opening tech script accordingly after a manager noticed my call time and call back rate was the lowest in the center average call was 7-12 min and 35 percent mine was 3 min and 3 percent
@@Nimbos0 1. Are you currently talking on the phone your calling about? If yes question 2 was do you see the number 1 or 2 on the top right of your screen... phone be on line 2 with no line 2 service easy steps to correct after hanging up the phone.. if it was no, I'd ask if your in a new area you've never been in before if yes a simple power cycle was all that was needed ... some old GSM phones didnt like initiating with new towers most of my techsupprt calls was resolved with ease
@@Nimbos0 previously if they were talking on the phone we were supse to tell them to call back from an alternate phone .... the specific error message on phone was could refer to 3 different problems thing was even though we were allowed a 45% call back rate for tech support I found my way was easier
i helped my old job get caught up with 3 months worth of late paperwork (in less than a month) just by arranging the papers that they gave me into certain categories so batch working is easier (and more mentally automated), copy pasting certain keywords in excel sheets instead of manually putting everything symbol by symbol/formula by formula, and doing some extra work for the hell of it since i always finish my own faster than the others (the other older employees kept me fed for free so i tend to offer help). they ended up asking me back after my contract ended because the person that replaced me couldn't recreate my work quality and efficiency. unfortunately the contract has loopholes that won't allow me back the same position unless i agree to do a few other things that won't be worth the pay anymore. it was a pretty good gig
Backstory: we used to have a greenhouse in our backyard that was held in place by six 3 foot long rebars, which were 2/3 in the ground, so they were pretty solid. When we moved a few weeks ago, my dad tasked me with pulling the rebars out of the ground. He showed me how to do it by taking a monkey wrench and twisting one like a screw after bending it around, and then after two minutes, pulled it out, and gave me the wrench to do the other 5. I did it slightly different. After bending the next rebar around, I stuck the hose down the gap between the rebar and the dirt around it, and turned it on. After letting the water soak, I just pulled it out with my bare hands and continued to pull the rest of them out my way in under 6 minutes. You know, I'm something of a lazy person myself
Ok.... I have a good one. So, this factory is prone to producing empty boxes without any contents in it. So the boss hired two people to attempt to solve the problem. The engineer, 1st guy, designs a very accurate machine with infra red systems to detect the contents of a box. The second guy, just a normal worker, pulls out a fan. An electric fan. Fucking legend.
When I was little I had a some math homework and I didn’t realize some problems were subtraction. Wanna know I fixed it? I took all the subtraction signs and just added a line to make them look like addition signs.
Worked somewhere and at the end of the day we had to store about 2000 feet of rope per day. I showed them how to do it by hand faster than with a large hose roll, it also saved time putting the ropes out. 6 years later it's been written in as SOP for multiple flying sites.
