March 22, 2010 at 23:54about lost time
We all encounter a problem when someone is late for a meeting with you or we ourselves are late. I now want to consider lateness only in the field of business meetings, not touching on personal matters. After all, when someone is late, not only time is lost, but also the employer or you yourself lose money. If you add up all the time spent waiting, a huge number of man-hours will accumulate, and if these hours are a highly paid employee, for example, a corporate lawyer with a salary of 1000 rubles per hour? This is a huge loss. Or when the neighboring father-in-law cannot send you the data for 2 hours already, because of = what your work is worth, but promised in 15 minutes!
In this regard, the question arose - "How much of your working time do you lose on waiting?" Regularly in various places they come up with punishments for being late - fines, punishments, reprimands, etc. But as practice shows, all the same, there are those who are chronically late, regardless of the consequences, for example, Latin American and African football players are regularly late for their teams after the holidays, and in football the fines are severe, Maybe employers can also introduce a clause on punishment for being late in an employment contract, or in general, as under I.V., is Stalin legislatively punished for being late? ..
It seems to me that this problem has several facets: education, psychology and the ability to evaluate. First: the upbringing of a person determines his whole life, by upbringing I understand the directed socialization of a person, Psychology - as it seems to me, some people have a mental predisposition to being late. And the last impossibility of a person to really assess their capabilities. Here are three components, each of which can lead to unpleasant consequences.
All this was an introductory remark that requires a separate study. Today I am interested in the question of how do you fill in the time spent waiting, that is, the question is:
“What are you doing while waiting?”. Do you spend this time productively or just spit on the ceiling? Perhaps this is precisely the time you are missing to complete urgent matters. It seems to me that there are an infinite number of options for spending time, But there are a few basic ones that seem to cover 80-85% of the audience. And in conclusion, the interrogation,
"What are you doing while you wait?" .
1. I read (newspaper, book, everything that is written around)
2. I smoke
3. I talk on the phone
4. I talk (with a friend or a stranger)
5. I play) on the phone, computer, set-top box)
6. I do nothing (I sit, I go aimlessly)
7. I write (SMS, on a computer, in a notebook)
what other options are there?
PS this is my IHMO, does not pretend to be scientific yet :).
In this regard, the question arose - "How much of your working time do you lose on waiting?" Regularly in various places they come up with punishments for being late - fines, punishments, reprimands, etc. But as practice shows, all the same, there are those who are chronically late, regardless of the consequences, for example, Latin American and African football players are regularly late for their teams after the holidays, and in football the fines are severe, Maybe employers can also introduce a clause on punishment for being late in an employment contract, or in general, as under I.V., is Stalin legislatively punished for being late? ..
It seems to me that this problem has several facets: education, psychology and the ability to evaluate. First: the upbringing of a person determines his whole life, by upbringing I understand the directed socialization of a person, Psychology - as it seems to me, some people have a mental predisposition to being late. And the last impossibility of a person to really assess their capabilities. Here are three components, each of which can lead to unpleasant consequences.
All this was an introductory remark that requires a separate study. Today I am interested in the question of how do you fill in the time spent waiting, that is, the question is:
“What are you doing while waiting?”. Do you spend this time productively or just spit on the ceiling? Perhaps this is precisely the time you are missing to complete urgent matters. It seems to me that there are an infinite number of options for spending time, But there are a few basic ones that seem to cover 80-85% of the audience. And in conclusion, the interrogation,
"What are you doing while you wait?" .
1. I read (newspaper, book, everything that is written around)
2. I smoke
3. I talk on the phone
4. I talk (with a friend or a stranger)
5. I play) on the phone, computer, set-top box)
6. I do nothing (I sit, I go aimlessly)
7. I write (SMS, on a computer, in a notebook)
what other options are there?
PS this is my IHMO, does not pretend to be scientific yet :).