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Least amount of non-automated work for the most amount of pay off, I respect it.
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I've heard that factories will rotate lazy people around the factory floor because the method that requires the least amount of effort to achieve the needed result. Then the company can teach the lazy person's method to their less lazy/less creative employees. Perhaps the story is apocryphal, but I think there is a grain of truth in the story. Managed properly, laziness can benefit the company. The problem you run in…
I heard there are four types of people who work for you. In order (from most preferred to least preferred) are: 1) The smart and lazy---they'll find the easiest way to do the job (or automate it). 2) The dumb and hardworking---you an tell them what to do and they'll do it exactly how you tell them to. 3) The dumb and lazy---they won't help, but they won't necessarily hurt either (just the bottom line). 4) The smart a…
There's a running joke at work that under no circumstances should someone complain to me about a problem, because I will drop everything to discover the cause of the problem, and then 2 days later the entire process will be rewritten. Everyone else thinks I'm working myself to the bone, but I'm rewriting processes that used to take several days to complete so they only take a couple of hours, and the computer does most of the work without input. In my mind its perfectly lazy, because it means I don't have to walk anyone through the procedure or fix any problems caused by humans gumming up the works.
Plus, it feels so good to say "What does the text next to the button say?" When someone calls to ask what they should do next.
I have a theory that most programmers are lazy, because a certain kind of lazy person goes "I'm sure there is a better way of doing this." and then that person goes on to figure out how. The only problem is that sometimes that type of person can get sucked into learning a new framework when they could have used the less efficient framework in the first place and already have been done.