Donna Flagg

Peeve of the Week: Wasting My Time
August 13, 2008

I've never done well "sitting idle."  I need to move.  No doubt that's why my parents threw me into dancing school when I was little, and no doubt if now were then, I'd be the poster child for ADD/ADHD.  But I don't think that needing to expend energy has anything to do with attention deficit disorder. Rather I think it's about movement, whether it be physical, creative or cerebral. 

So at work, when people get in the way of the natural and necessary motion on which successful businesses depend, or impede healthy workflow and processes with their actions, I, like many others, get frustrated.  In fact, I feel like I'm in a dance class with my wrists and ankles tied together.  

Specifically, one of the things I find most baffling is the tendency for people to give empty or rote answers in lieu of the truth.  I don’t know why it is so common for people to lack the skills they need to just say it like it is.  And moreover, why it is so hard for them to recognize that doing so doesn’t make things easier, it makes them harder.  It’s a total waste of everyone’s time and it creates a perpetual state of “going nowhere.”  Why would anyone want that?

Posted by Donna Flagg on August 13, 2008 | Comments (8)