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: