Recently at my work we had an intern. I was tasked with giving her some of my work to keep her busy. In theory, this would reduce my workload as well, since she was doing it. In practice, I had no motivation to make sure she was doing things well. In a month she’ll be gone, and I’ll be doing this myself again, so it doesn’t matter if she does a great job or a crap one, as long as it isn’t too screwed up for me to recover afterward. So I gave her a quick crash course, she spent an hour “being busy”, and afterwards I threw away all her work and redid it the way it should be.
Office Efficiency
Office Efficiency
Office Efficiency
Recently at my work we had an intern. I was tasked with giving her some of my work to keep her busy. In theory, this would reduce my workload as well, since she was doing it. In practice, I had no motivation to make sure she was doing things well. In a month she’ll be gone, and I’ll be doing this myself again, so it doesn’t matter if she does a great job or a crap one, as long as it isn’t too screwed up for me to recover afterward. So I gave her a quick crash course, she spent an hour “being busy”, and afterwards I threw away all her work and redid it the way it should be.