Inefficiency- Is it a Pet Peeve?

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Yeah, that sucks. That is truly boring. My last job was like that, where I worked as a care giver. It was very stressful, and I quit because it was effecting my ability to provide good care for the clients.

I hate inefficiency. I'm very into doing stuff with the minimum of fuss and bother. Sometimes I'm inefficient myself, when I can't see the easy way, but that's not so bad because I'm not aware that there is an easier way. But when I see it in myself or others, and particularly when others impose inefficiency on me, I detest it. I can't understand how anybody can maintain a work ethic when it's the norm to waste so much time - it's as if hard work is valued as an end in itself, even when it produces nothing of value.

The way governments and bosses are always telling us that we must work longer for less suggests that society is in crisis, that every ounce of human effort is required to stop us all going to the wall. Even the old and the disabled are being regularly looked at in the hope that they can be pushed back into the world of work. Yet the consumerist game is extremely wasteful, so we're basically working ourselves to death to inefficiently provide each other with things we don't even need.

Even giving money to charity can't be simple - there has to be a TV show or some kind of public spectacle, with everybody pledging cash via text messages, nobidy seems to want to just donate, they have to make somebody run a marathon dressed as Biffo the Bear first.

So often bosses have delegated one-off tasks to me that they could much more easily have done for themselves - explaining the details of what they want has often taken them longer than just doing it. Very often I've been completely unsuited for the role, but they don't seem to notice that, as long as they don't have to do it themselves.

But even when I can see the logic, I still hate inefficiency. I've sometimes wanted to make certain tasks more efficient at work, only to be told that those tasks aren't performed often enough to make it worthwhile to streamline them. Their reasoning is often perfectly sound, but once I know a task could be done using less labour, I find it painful to have to go the long way round every time.