How To Make Your Job Easier

How To Make Your Job Easier by Ramon Greenwood The techies could do a lot more to make our life at work easier and more pleasant. Take the telephone, for example. I don't know about you, but there are several things that bug me about talking on one of these confounded instruments. First of all, there are those long-winded conversations. Personally, I would like to see a device installed on all telephones whereby any business call that lasts over 10 minutes is cut off unless the person on the receiving end punches a default button. The person who had placed the call originally would have to pay triple rates for replacing the call. Another thing, any time there is a dead silence on the line for more than 45 seconds, the machine would automatically hang up and the same rule for a recall stated above would go into effect. It would be helpful to have a pocket-sized instrument that deactivates the telephone in the office of a prospect when one is poised to make the final sales pitch. Techies Could Improve Meetings The techies could do a lot to improve meetings. To begin with, I would suggest that something like a vaporizer be placed in all conference rooms. The machine would be activated by specific occurrences to emit an invisible fog of an odorless chemical appropriate for the need. One such chemical would be silently spread about the room when any presentation lasts longer than 12 minutes, without interruption. It would cause the brains of the listeners to switch off the rambling of the presenter and automatically tune over to contemplate a day in spring, a favorite fishing hole or some other pleasantry. Of course, it would have to work so that the eyes of the audience would appear to be bright and focused as if they were intently interested. The same effect would result when anyone declares they want to ask a question and then make a self-serving statement lasting more than three minutes. Oh, yes, the invisible fog would also cause a splitting headache for persons who commit any one of the following transgressions: