Monday, September 24, 2007

My Productivity Is Low!

This post will be lame. If you're opposed to lame things, stop reading. And consider dropping my friendship altogether.

It's lame because it's about work. But maybe I'd like for you to understand this extremely mundane part of my life.

Here's the deal. I'm supposed to be 93% productive. This means 93% of my time should be on projects that make money. I can spend 7% on things like reading email, filing, and working on projects that don't make money.

This is fine, except that I have no responsibility, and no way of creating work for myself. I sit here until someone gives me something to do.

Right now, I am 54.7% productive. Awful. If this keeps up, I'm going to get fired, and it won't be my fault.

Also, someone stole my work computer this weekend. Which is funny, because our office has around 50 computers in it, but whoever broke in stole 2 computers and a postal scale. Moron.

So I'm bored. I have no work to do. My productivity is sinking below the 50% mark . And now, you, reader, must decide if you even want to continue a friendship with someone with a 50% productivity.

I know it's lame. But you'll have something like this too. Nurses have to keep people alive. Teachers have to produce good test scores. Sims has to discover cold fusion. Kristen has to become Lord of Catanthiopia. Candis has to convert Malaysia. Matt has to... umm... he has to... uhh.... Parks has to sell coffee. And Brian has to be a barrister at Starbucks.

Meanwhile, I'm bored, but I'm getting paid, and that's better than nothing. And, since everyone wonders what it is that I actually do, since we all know cartography has been defunct since Magellan met up with some hostile Filapinos, here's something I made. Ahem, helped make. My boss drew the lines, and I colored them.
Special prize for anyone who can guess what place this map is showing!!! Everyone has been here. Here's a hint: focaccia, flowers, and a 3 and 1/2 year Quest.

7 comments:

brian said...

do you think i could pull off being a Filipino barrister?

and i fold-- no idea what it's a drawing of. you're gonna have to just be thankful that i still remember the northwest passage (i showed it to hammy).

Jennifer said...

for some reason i'm thinking dave's pizza in homewood. do i win??!

Patrick said...

No, but you're close.

Anonymous said...

rosedale and 18th st?
-sarah

Patrick said...

Yes! Sarah wins the special prize - dating me. And an ice cream sandwich. But not the good kind with cookies, just the regular kind.

olivia said...

yay for low productivity. mine has been especially high lately

Matt Francisco said...

ouch pat. and i also guess rosedale and eighteenth and demand a nice date and ice cream sandwich. i'd like to be taken to nabeel's if it's no difference to you