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In my law office management and procedures class, I learned that you have to spend all day keeping track of your time. You have to keep track of every second. And some bill in 15 minute increments, and some in six minutes, and blah. It seemed to me that just keeping track of your "productivity" would be a huge drain on your productivity. Like, you're on the phone, and everything is fast, and you work on stuff and then switch what you are working on, at any moment, and you're supposed to keep track of that shizz. Good lawd. Oh, and you are reviewed on your client time v. your other time. It was a whole heinous chapter that scared the **** out of me.
Okay, at my job...my boss is nearly retarded. He can't read, and he can't remember things for more than 20 seconds, if that. He's really nice. But...he really can't practically read. I bring him stuff, and say "so this says such and such" encapsulating it for him, to make it easy. But no, instead, he has to read it himself, which takes 45 times longer than anyone else who has ever read anything.
Also, he tells me to do things that I have been doing for years, and that were incredibly simple in the first place, and says "do you see what I'm saying?" afterwords.
You ****ing told me to order paper, dude, which I've been doing for three years, and in which none of the words involved are hard to understand. Look, I'm not like you, I remember things, and can read.
It drives me over the edge. All I do is order paper and supplies, and do A/R. So why would someone say "order paper for this job" and then ask if I understood? Like, which part is confusing? Order. Paper. For. Job.
Seriously, I'm not like you, boss, I can remember for more than forty seconds, and things like "ordering paper" and "reading" and "remembering things" aren't complex for me like they are for you. Serious.
I'm sure any who know me can understand how slow ready, repeat himself, never remember anything boss would be frustrating to me.