Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Get Back To Woik!

To build on the topic of the workplace this post works well with a post Pezrealian has documented this week. The Most Unnatural Thing by Ms. Anonymous covered a workplace and the dread one feels being totally cut-off from the natural world stuck inside an office building. Perusing the randomness of a favorite site I came across "Work", a website with the following motto, or in work-speak, Mission Statement:
WORK is dedicated to celebrating the daily grind: white collar, blue collar, pink collar, food service, freelancing and more.

WORK has an intentionally bland format, so that it can be enjoyed while you’re still on the clock. Does your boss like to peek over your shoulder? Never mind that.WORK’s professional-looking, easy-to-hide styling will lend your work space a productive glow.WORK is subversive, so you can be subversive at work.
The story that holds and held my attention is an interview with a worker Mary Preis who probably has the best seat in her office & has the admiration of this entombed worker-Christopher Paul.

Now, in the voice of British Nature Host David Attenborough let's whisper for a moment.

Note her keen concentration to her work despite the view to her environment moving about in the wild habitat. It is here in her den where the male species will court her in a dance across her field of vision. Oh wait, here comes one now! Let's watch...

Fascinating!
(Now back to my Americano Dialect & the topic at hand)

If this where my office my attention span would be as far as my vertical jump; minuscule, minute. My workday would be utterly unproductive in my people watching habit. Facebook, emails, favorite blogs would be catfish compared to this yellow fin tuna. My 19" LCD monitor is now a 30'x15' plate glass window to the world and I stare at it all day long.

Reading the interview however the effect she's experienced is the opposite, she is more productive and her explanation is most interesting.

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