There is a well-known saying that goes, always give the hardest job to the laziest person,

because they will find the easiest way to do it. What is the best real-life example of this you have

seen? I was once a temp at a tiny office on a construction site in around 2003. I was only there for one

day while the regular person was on some training. They sat me down and told me that I just needed to copy all these numbers from one program to another. So I selected them, hit Control C and Control V. Turns out about 60% of this woman's time had been manually typing the numbers from one place to another. I work in finance at a large multinational corporation. I feel like a

big part of our job is just stopped doing things and wait to see who complains. If someone

complains, we keep doing it. If silence, then we call it a controlled drop and put it on our

performance review for creating efficiencies. I worked in a CNC shop. There would be a pile of

jobs that needed to be done for the month. Some took days to run while others were generally quick.

The record for jobs done in one day was eight. What I did was looked through all the jobs and

organized them by set up, meaning every job has a set-up time, can take an hour to get all the tooling

together, setting up the cutting table, and setting the parts square to the table so the

machine can gauge where the part is. So when I insert the code into the machine, it can run flawlessly

and drill, mill, tap, whatever within literally hair measurement, for every single job.

Majority of parts use standard tooling, and I have automatic tool changing with 20 pockets.

Long story short, I figured out how to line up jobs, so they all have the same setup.

Blew the record out of the water with 30 jobs done in one day, saving the company tens of

thousands of work hours, all because

I didn't feel like doing all the setups that day. I worked at a summer at a mortgage company

as an assistant to the underwriters. My only job was printing documents and then hole-punching

them to put in folders. They had a super fancy Xerox printer that basically did my entire job for me,

but the underwriters at this company didn't know how to click through printer settings to make

the machine hole punch as it was being printed. I showed them how to do it, and they resisted it

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