Modern efficiencies can be great, if that saved time is put to good use. This is one of the things Glenda thinks about often, as she’s humming along entering invoices, in her island of a cubicle at the Bellwether HQ. If you are banking that time to get better at your job, be it by catching up on other things, or learning more, or tinkering around in an attempt to find even better methods, then this is great. But the problem with everything being faster these days is that often, all it’s accomplished is…making everyone expect everything that much quicker, so that you’re not really saving any time and certainly not much stress.
Not that she’s really all that stressed, not that she’s complaining. But there are plenty who are stressed to the gills by today’s frenetic pace, and the only reason she’s not is by finding more efficient ways to do the exact same thing, yet not revealing this little tidbit to anyone. Which allows her to study up on her job, and experiment.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://jasonmcgathey.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/tales-of-a-scorched-coffee-pot-chapter-24/
