Bas’s article he emailed was appropriate for this flight
Tags :Rant
This article relates directly to another I
read on how not to be disturbed on a flight, but it sums it up quite nicely.
So much to do, so little time. And it doesn't help
that the guy down the hall is always dropping by your cubicle to share
unsolicited lawn-care tips. Then there are the phone, the e-mail, the micromanaging
boss to deal with. On a typical day office workers are interrupted about
seven times an hour, which adds up to 56 interruptions a day, 80% of which
are considered trivial, according to time-management experts.
The article itself can be found right here.
But reading it further really struck a cord as I was in-between Chicago
and London. I, luckily, had a great companion in the seat next to
me. He makes Ed's travels look like child's play. He was on
his way back to another African country as he does high altitude meteorological
equipment work (or something like that as I tried to grasp the full complexity
of devices that can go 100,000 feet in the air to gather weather data).
In the 5 seat section to our left was a young man that was incessantly
bothering the guy next to him the entire flight. Sure, we both laughed
quietly as we watched. The gentlemen next to him had even gone so
far as to put on the headsets, eye coverings and tried to sleep. When
I woke back up, the younger one was still talking away.
So how do all of you keep the person in the seat next to you from talking
you to death when you aren't quite ready to talk to them? We could
take lessons from this piece of the article
At Pitt Ohio Express, a trucking company based in
Pittsburgh, Pa., claims auditors take turns wearing a special black baseball
cap to signal that they are absorbed in a project. Department head Lois
Beggs says she takes several hours "under the cap" to catch up
on her 150 emails a day when she has been away from the office.
American Airlines could give special "I really don't like to talk
to strangers" buttons.
P.S. So Libby talked about this same article
on the informer
blog while I was flying over.
Well so small is the world of blogging.
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On Saturday, October 16th, 2004 by Chris Miller
