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Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was working as a stockboy in a supermarket and when we had to fill the milk cooler people would bust open a 12 pack of milk cartons and put them in one by one.

On my first day I just placed the 12 pack in the cooler and cut the plastic off on one side with my box cutter and yanked it from under it and the look of the store manager and the other employee who was training me was pure bewilderment.

From that day everyone did it my way.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh god. This just reminded me of an old boss. He was a general contractor (very large, and very expensive custom homes ground up builds), and I still don’t know how he was still in business, and more importantly, hadn’t been sued into oblivions. Anyhow, he would use and excel spreadsheet to do his estimates. Ok, not ideal, but could work.

At some point I realized what he was doing, and asked why he wasn’t using any formulas or macros to make it all automatic (he was doing the math with a calculator then entering the info). He didn’t know it was possible. He would manually write down, then transfer info from one sheet to another and of course there were tons of errors. I spent a little time making him a whole new one (his idea not mine) with all the bells and whistles. He never fucking used it.