Repetitive Tasks
In: Humor Internet/tech
10 May 2012Yep. This pretty much describes my career. Progress is the result of a lazy man finding an easier way of doing things.
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16 Responses to Repetitive Tasks
megan
May 10th, 2012 at 15:12
would be better and more geeky if time (t) were on X.
Jens
May 10th, 2012 at 15:40
It’s missing the point where the geek begs for appreciation, installs the script for the non-geek and cares for the maintenance. Geeks are technical winners, non-geeks are business winners.
AK
May 10th, 2012 at 15:56
Doesn’t only apply to geeks, applies to anyone with an ounce of efficient foresight.
Ethan
May 10th, 2012 at 20:02
When I first saw this a few weeks ago, I loved it. Then I realized it has a critical flaw: As soon as the geek has written the script, his or her “time spent” will likely drop to almost zero. (At least for a true geek that writes a good script).
So, actually, the geek wins at bit after the point of “runs script” because at that point the red line should be hugging the x axis. 🙂
Jens
May 11th, 2012 at 05:51
@Ethan
The y axis shows the cumulated time spent.
hoho
May 14th, 2012 at 14:32
@Ethan
You are not geek, that’s for sure 🙂
neale
May 15th, 2012 at 21:44
Thanks made my day 🙂
Jay
May 15th, 2012 at 23:09
The Geek looses. Management eventually realizes it can automate his job.
Rogier
May 15th, 2012 at 23:32
True as long as the task at hand doesn’t change….
Al
May 16th, 2012 at 11:30
It seems like the non-geek only loses due to spending more time than he spent on the original task mocking the geek’s complicated method…
Moral: geeks and non-geeks don’t mix?
prashant Telang
May 19th, 2012 at 12:39
Don’t understand win and lose concept…unless its a race
may be fast and slow sounds apprpriate…
mims
May 21st, 2012 at 14:46
Lol, the lazy man. I’d say the efficient woman. Or man. 😉
Martin
May 23rd, 2012 at 05:03
Manager asks geek to document process. The longer the geek takes to document, the longer the geek keeps his job.
LeMans fan
June 7th, 2012 at 19:50
Non-geek has moved onto something else more important and more interesting whilst the the geek gets his/her kicks out of scripting… they both win!
Sojourner
August 11th, 2012 at 19:01
Management eventually realizes it can automate geek’s job; geek goes on to automate jobs for management at lots of other companies with the same problem.
Hayden
November 30th, 2013 at 13:41
haa! good one! but the non-geeks will catch up as the software gets smarter. Just check out http://proteg.ee/mentor to get the idea.