Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Standing Over Me Does Not Make Me Work Faster


In every office I’ve ever worked in there has always been at least one person who seems to believe that standing over you, literally breathing down your neck, while you’re working on something will make you get it done faster.  It doesn’t, not at all.  Even if that person’s breath is reminiscent of the dump on a hot summer day and you’d gladly trade away 10 years of your life to make them go away sooner.  It just doesn’t work.

In fact it’s nerve wracking and disruptive.  I type and do other office work much faster and with very few errors if there’s not some jerk breathing down my neck.  It’s not out of spite; it’s that the stress and annoyance (not to mention the effort not to breathe through my nose if the hoverer is the person with dump breath) aren’t conducive to efficient and quality work. 

So what about you?  Does it make it harder for you to work quickly and do a good job if there’s someone standing over you?  Have you found a way to discourage the behavior?  

8 comments:

  1. Good luck with your blog, I am retired so have stopped working.

    Secondly thank you for your kind comment, sadly I didn't get a phone call from my birthday grandson.........I was hoping.

    Yvonne.

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    1. Thanks! Yay for you being retired. :-)

      Sorry you didn't get your call.

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  2. Ok you had me at the title and subtitle ..lol...I do work in an office and boy do I have stories lol.....

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    1. Offices seem to generate a lot of stories. I'm glad I'm not the only one. What can I say? Misery loves company.

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  3. This is one I've thankfully missed. In my previous job I actually had to sometimes do it to others (under orders! Only under orders!) I hated doing it, knew it wasn't helping, but had to in order to make sure I stayed employed.

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    1. I suppose you're forgiven since you did it only orders and it sounds like you were just as miserable as the people you were standing over. This is food for thought, being forced to torment others....

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  4. Yeah that's really infuriating. I used to draw ductwork in CAD, and the some designers would stand behind me and tell me "draw this here, then this here, no up. no up. UP UP!" Do you want me to SCROLL up? Cause that makes the drawing go down...

    Yeah, makes me angry. Always wanted to throw a quick elbow to the stuff.

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