Productivity

Maybe I have served tables for so long that I am just now realizing what corporate America has struggled with for years, but I find it next to impossible to be 100% productive on the clock.  I work at a computer all day.  I am looking at contracts, designing materials, and explaining to people to what the word “equity” means.  In the midst of all of this, I am constantly minimizing my Aimsi screen to check for a little red box on the top left corner of my facebook page.  Or refreshing The Frisky every ten minutes desperately hoping to find a new article posted to distract me from what I am doing for another 4 minutes.

I have gotten better about this.  It was a bit of a shock from the first few months of working here when I was never alone in the office to now where I have more responsibility, and in turn more freedom.  I can basically do whatever I would like for the 11 hours I am here and no one will really question it. 

I have always been a hard worker, and that hasn’t changed.  I get everything I need to get done done, and then some.  I have been creating my own job description here since being hired as a part time CSR 6 months ago.  Seth Godin once said that your job can either be a platform or a set of tasks.  I have very clearly made my job a platform in the time I have been here, and I am proud of the where I stand with this company today.  Is this the rational I use when looking through every picture from Mateo Camargo’s most recent trip to South America?  You’re damn right it is.

With all this being said, will someone please create a facebook home page that looks more like spread sheet?  I see these sorts of things being created for fantasy football leagues, and it makes me jealous.  Maybe The Frisky needs to have an option to turn off their hot pink web design, and look a little more like Hal Leonard Print Publications website.  Maybe we all just need to be a little more considerate of my lack of productivity.

With that being said, I’ve only got 1 hour and 14 minutes left of work.  Godspeed.