Multitasking, a style statement!!!

Switching on MTV… booting up your computer… talking over your cell phone, while chatting over the internet messenger, with sipping your coffee and thinking about what to write in your daily article “How to improve efficiency”, clearly says it all!!!

Multitasking is on its way. It makes a teenager more productive, and more efficient. But does it, really? For a period, yes!!!

Then, while multitasking, he becomes 3 people, working on 3 different tasks, and so… boss sits on the head of 3 people expecting 3 times the work J

In the software world, many tasks are assigned to a single soul; however, these tasks will not be presented in their pure form as work!

It will be assigned as A Challenge in front of an Engineer, to test his abilities!!!

Now, when one assigns a challenge, to an engineer, he is just not leaving his machine, till he is done.

That’s the corporate way of fooling a engineer’s brain. J

“

You know… you just have to sit late sometimes… it’s a part of our job…

Even we have done multitasking during our times…

This is just a small fragment…

Try to take it as a challenge…

You still need to see a long life ahead…

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Needless to mention, the above words get delivered by which wise guy!

So, you put your heart and soul in the work, have lunch at night (yup, dinner @ night is for losers), and just think … why the hell you pay rent for the house!

Expecting a pat on your back for the hard work at least, you get all the soothing music to your ears –

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I didn’t expect this from you at least … (Yup.. every person hears the phrase ‘from you at least’)

Try to take responsibilities… plan… prioritize… execute…

Efficiency… Management skills… Effectiveness… (All the Standard nouns…)

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And when you raise some risks or await indefinitely for the wise person’s decision on some issue, and have got no clue on what to do next, and speak out – “I was waiting for your decision… “, you have had it, and you will be hearing –

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You are just not independent enough!!!

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So, when you finally say “Multitasking isn’t effective…” OR “Multitasking is not for me…”… it is very surprising, because this word was introduced by Oxford ages before, and it’s so hard to believe that some word might have been introduced just for not being effective.

Also, the UNIX originators, have used this word, and slashed the lives of all the engineers living today…

[References]

http://www.contextmag.com/archives/199809/InnerGameOfWork.asp?process=print

http://www.ivillage.co.uk/workcareer/survive/prodskills/articles/0,,156471_167575-2,00.html

P.S:

The Dilbert Solution works for me to avoid multitasking, and yet to be portrayed as multitasking energy source for other’s inspiration!!!

Solution is quite simple –

• Start with the easiest of task, send an update of it being started.
• Go to the difficult most task, and just take a break of a few hours, and then send an update of a potential risk that you see, due to some awaiting critical information.
• Always ask the most critical information during lunch breaks, when they are away.
• Ask for 20min of wise man’s precious time, at the EOD, while he is going to board the office lift.
• Come back to the easiest task, complete it; however, withheld this progress update for a few days.
• While you are being cursed for being ineffective, provide this progress update of the easy task within next 17min.
• Due to time unavailability, try to be effective and DISTRIBUTE the task amongst others; learn to share!!!
• Distribute ONLY the difficult tasks. Keep simple tasks, inseparable from you, as you own it.
• Send e-mails late in the night, after the late night movie.
• Always come late to the office, and run helter skelter.
• Don’t shave and look undernourished.
• Just try once, and you will be entitled for the “Best Employee Recognition Award!!!”

How did you ever think, I got one… :)