Author Topic: Efficiency (Read 11798 times)

steve dave · « **on:** February 24, 2012, 01:46:43 PM »

I'm kind of an efficiency freak. I don't plan to be, I just am. For example, I will do the absolute minimum amount of actions to get from my vehicle into the house and get aggravated if I realize I didn't do it the best way and wasted time. Like, say I have some bags and need to get the mail and I need to get the garbage can from the bottom of the driveway. These are all very easy tasks but it pisses me off if I waste more than the minimum amount of time to do them. I will drive by the mailbox and get the mail and put it in my bag, pull into the garage take out my bags and set them down and then unlock the door to the house opening it (so I don't have to put the bags down to do that on my way into the house) then go get the garbage can and set it in the garage, pick up my bags and head into the house via the open door. My wife will do the same thing and take three times as long and have to get back into the car and put down her bags and then make an extra trip to the base of the driveway and then go get the mail after all this is done. I will put away dishes in the same kind of way. I will make the minimum amount of trips from the dishwasher to the cabinets and I have a set order I put things away. I'm like this at work too. I will do one process for every single client at the same time so I don't have to go back into a system each time. People I work with never have anything done and I'm always doing their crap for them when they come to deadlines because they are ridiculously inefficient. I try to explain ways to streamline processes to my wife, coworkers, etc. but they all just look at me like I'm a weirdo. I may be a bit autistic. Not sure.

DQ12 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2012, 01:48:37 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on February 24, 2012, 01:46:43 PM

I'm kind of an efficiency freak. I don't plan to be, I just am. For example, I will do the absolute minimum amount of actions to get from my vehicle into the house and get aggravated if I realize I didn't do it the best way and wasted time. Like, say I have some bags and need to get the mail and I need to get the garbage can from the bottom of the driveway. These are all very easy tasks but it pisses me off if I waste more than the minimum amount of time to do them. I will drive by the mailbox and get the mail and put it in my bag, pull into the garage take out my bags and set them down and then unlock the door to the house opening it (so I don't have to put the bags down to do that on my way into the house) then go get the garbage can and set it in the garage, pick up my bags and head into the house via the open door. My wife will do the same thing and take three times as long and have to get back into the car and put down her bags and then make an extra trip to the base of the driveway and then go get the mail after all this is done. I will put away dishes in the same kind of way. I will make the minimum amount of trips from the dishwasher to the cabinets and I have a set order I put things away. I'm like this at work too. I will do one process for every single client at the same time so I don't have to go back into a system each time. People I work with never have anything done and I'm always doing their crap for them when they come to deadlines because they are ridiculously inefficient. I try to explain ways to streamline processes to my wife, coworkers, etc. but they all just look at me like I'm a weirdo. I may be a bit autistic. Not sure.

You could be a robot. Do you think you might be a robot?

steve dave · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2012, 01:49:30 PM »

can a robot love?

raquetcat · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2012, 01:55:21 PM »

I majored in efficiency (no joke). I can come take a look at some of your processes and offer some suggestions for improvements if you want?

steve dave · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:00:52 PM »

Quote from: raquetcat on February 24, 2012, 01:55:21 PM

I majored in efficiency (no joke). I can come take a look at some of your processes and offer some suggestions for improvements if you want?

Coming to take a look at my processes should give you about 15 credit hours towards your master in efficiency.

Bloodfart · « **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:04:17 PM »

I do the same thing when putting the dishes away. Sometimes my wife trys to help and I find myself clenching my jaw so tight that my ears ring.

Maybe I should see some one?

michigancat · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:08:20 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on February 24, 2012, 01:46:43 PM

I'm kind of an efficiency freak. I don't plan to be, I just am. For example, I will do the absolute minimum amount of actions to get from my vehicle into the house and get aggravated if I realize I didn't do it the best way and wasted time. Like, say I have some bags and need to get the mail and I need to get the garbage can from the bottom of the driveway. These are all very easy tasks but it pisses me off if I waste more than the minimum amount of time to do them. I will drive by the mailbox and get the mail and put it in my bag, pull into the garage take out my bags and set them down and then unlock the door to the house opening it (so I don't have to put the bags down to do that on my way into the house) then go get the garbage can and set it in the garage, pick up my bags and head into the house via the open door. My wife will do the same thing and take three times as long and have to get back into the car and put down her bags and then make an extra trip to the base of the driveway and then go get the mail after all this is done. I will put away dishes in the same kind of way. I will make the minimum amount of trips from the dishwasher to the cabinets and I have a set order I put things away. I'm like this at work too. I will do one process for every single client at the same time so I don't have to go back into a system each time. People I work with never have anything done and I'm always doing their crap for them when they come to deadlines because they are ridiculously inefficient. I try to explain ways to streamline processes to my wife, coworkers, etc. but they all just look at me like I'm a weirdo. I may be a bit autistic. Not sure.

I'm with you. I just rearranged my Android home screen to be more efficient. I now have fewer swipes, and my thumb travels less even when not swiping.

steve dave · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:10:12 PM »

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:14:12 PM »

You know what's the worst? Getting stuck in a situation where you have to wait for inefficient people.

michigancat · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:18:30 PM »

When I walk through the city to/from work, I plan my route around specific traffic lights that are especially long 2 parks to cut through a block. I am constantly thinking about how I can get to work without having to stop moving at all. It changes a bit every day, depending on the long lights I mentioned.

hemmy · « **Reply #10 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:46:21 PM »

Maybe if you put some line breaks in that wall of text I could read it more efficiently.

_33 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:53:27 PM »

Sounds like you guys waste a lot of time thinking about how to be more efficient.

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #12 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:59:04 PM »

Quote from: _33 on February 24, 2012, 02:53:27 PM

Sounds like you guys waste a lot of time thinking about how to be more efficient.

When you are super-efficient, you have a lot of extra time saved to come up with new ways to be even more efficient.

steve dave · « **Reply #13 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:17:55 PM »

Quote from: _33 on February 24, 2012, 02:53:27 PM

Sounds like you guys waste a lot of time thinking about how to be more efficient.

The thing is, I don't plan to think about efficiency. I just do it automatically. I am only aware of it when I notice myself getting aggrevated at coworkers/wife/etc.

michigancat · « **Reply #14 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:19:16 PM »

Quote from: _33 on February 24, 2012, 02:53:27 PM

Sounds like you guys waste a lot of time thinking about how to be more efficient.

did you see the part where I was thinking about efficiency while walking? TWO THINGS AT ONCE. EFFICIENCY. BOOM!

kso_FAN · « **Reply #15 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:24:12 PM »

steve dave
2.43 tasks per possession
23.6% mail percentage
46.8% bag percentage
56.7% door unlocking rate

Sounds pretty good.

CNS · « **Reply #16 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:56:10 PM »

The OP seems pretty inefficient. I mean, if that was by half the posters on this site, it would have been a DNR.

Also, yeah, I automatically do things as efficient as possible. Hate people who dawdle, don't care, or even worse, are too stupid to even understand processes that lead to the efficiency.

8manpick · « **Reply #17 on:** February 24, 2012, 04:03:39 PM »

Super efficient with 23541 posts on goEMAW.com

michigancat · « **Reply #18 on:** February 24, 2012, 04:14:42 PM »

Quote from: 8manpick on February 24, 2012, 04:03:39 PM

Super efficient with 23541 posts on goEMAW.com

Recent unread topics -> new posts button

LOL @ thinking you could amass that many posts without being efficient.

schreds21 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 24, 2012, 04:24:30 PM »

With you 100% on this SD. I'm constantly tying to do things in the least amount of steps or I will have two or three things in motion at the same time. It's all about being fluid and always having forward motion. Annoys the crap out of me if I have to retrace steps cause I forgot something. I won't even go to the grocery store without a list and that list is always structured so that I can start at end farthest from the checkout lines and end up close to them so I don't have to walk back across the store. My girlfriend drives me insane with her innefficiency. I may be a little OCD.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #20 on:** February 24, 2012, 04:27:15 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on February 24, 2012, 01:46:43 PM

I will put away dishes in the same kind of way. I will make the minimum amount of trips from the dishwasher to the cabinets and I have a set order I put things away.

The most efficient way to put the dishes away is to leave them in the dishwasher until your wife puts them away. That's what Gooch believes anyway.

michigancat · « **Reply #21 on:** February 24, 2012, 04:37:54 PM »

YEAH, WHEN YOU HAVE DEADLY PNEUMONIA.

steve dave · « **Reply #22 on:** February 24, 2012, 04:43:59 PM »

Quote from: 8manpick on February 24, 2012, 04:03:39 PM

Super efficient with 23541 posts on goEMAW.com

I don't think you know what the word efficient means....

pissclams · « **Reply #23 on:** February 24, 2012, 04:46:05 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on February 24, 2012, 03:17:55 PM

Quote from: _33 on February 24, 2012, 02:53:27 PM
Sounds like you guys waste a lot of time thinking about how to be more efficient.

The thing is, I don't plan to think about efficiency. I just do it automatically. I am only aware of it when I notice myself getting aggrevated at coworkers/wife/etc.

i'm this person. steven speilberg should film a movie about me and my efficiency. it's hilarious. i'm like zen guru of being efficient. it's also what i do for a job. it's also hilarious how inefficient women are.

8manpick · « **Reply #24 on:** February 24, 2012, 05:21:57 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on February 24, 2012, 04:43:59 PM

Quote from: 8manpick on February 24, 2012, 04:03:39 PM
Super efficient with 23541 posts on goEMAW.com

I don't think you know what the word efficient means....

I understand it, obviously you are an efficient poster, it's just an interesting way to spend all of that extra time you have.