The boss is looking my way now. My fingers automatically found the keyboard and started typing away. And I started to frown, my eyes on the computer screen...deep in thoughts.
So, have you finished?
Without lifting my head, "Yup, working on it... "
Really...ok. He walked away.
Phew...
Faking busy at work is a skill that no one has to teach us. We just picked up along the way. Some are more competent than the others. And some improve along the way and it turn out to be their main job scope after a while. A Pro in the making but not enough to land themselves in Hollywood!
Why the fake? I can think of several reasons but the most common one is that people do not find the joy or meaning of doing real work anymore. They need the pay and the only way to ensure the pay keeps coming is to stick around - by "keeping busy". They don't question their reason for turning up to work except to get paid.
The second common reason is simply because they do not know how to plan their work well. Being busy does not equate being effective. We probably heard this one before but our lazy minds sometimes conveniently shut down and told to leave the thinking job to someone else.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing -- Thomas Alva Edison
Take a real good look at our job now. Are we busy accomplishing something meaningful or are we playing busy, blowing precious time away?
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