B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 07, 2024

And I’ll show someone who can’t cook a basic meal from scratch.

People don’t multitask, they do task-switching.

I can read GoComics and click a mouse at almost the same time!

Sometimes a time crunch makes it necessary.

I can multi-fail with the best of them.

Amazing how many people still call themselves multitaskers after all the research proving it doesn’t exist and how those who attempt it produce mediocrity at best. apa dot org-topics-research-multitasking

As PPE says… it’s a mental shifting of gears. Some folks can flow though like water in a stream. Then there are folks like me who wind up grinding and gnashing like a butcher making hamburger meat!!!

I knew someone who could do three things at once and maintain a conversation. She was Mom and she ran the house and Dad and me very efficiently. Of course, that was in the ’35 to ’57. Then I left home and lightened the load by 75%. [I was a pain]

Who irons anymore? I tried to give away a new ironing board I’d saved for my daughter for years and no one would take it!

People who say they are good at multi-tasking are bad at everything else.

Those things are done by “losing” multi-taskers. “Winning” ones don’t do quite as well.

Multitasking- doing everything slower…

Yes! That is the truth about Multitasking!

Multitasking, a cover word for ADD.

Don’t forget they will also mess up the tax return and run the red light

odd this is about the woman

Not even the fastest digital computer can do this … first they do this, then they do that, and when they do A-Flat they go WOP, WOP, WOP.

I don’t have to be doing anything else to ignore texts.

So … they know of Flo Capp?

“Dilbert” used the term “multi-shirking”.

“Show me a person who multitasks…..”

“And I’ll show you a person who has done time in a commercial kitchen.”

The last time I attempted multitasking, I knitted a turkey and baked a sweater.

Concentration is interesting. I find that I can remember a lot more of a visual sequence if I mute the music. I’ve also wondered who the first person was that thought they could text and drive safely at the same time. I would never have thought of trying it.

Type B person…..don’t do it!!!!!!

My secretary like to say how well she could multitask. One day, in frustration, I took a large stack of filings that she had done wrong, along with other tasks that she was suppose to accomplish and went to her office. I put everything down, none too gently, and said, “When you multitask, it means you are doing at least two jobs completely wrong and costing the firm money. Please box your personal items and leave. We will mail your last pay and severance”.

The next secretary that I hired was a transexual. It didn’t bother me that he wore short skirts, ( he has some decent looking legs), and he never pushed being a transexual He didn’t multitask and he made sure everything was done correctly the first time. After five years, I have decided that he was the best hire that I ever did. The Senior pardner tried to steal him from me and he told Bob, there was no way.

Yes, I call him a he, because of my beliefs, and no I do not treat him any different from the female secretaries. If someone does the job and doesn’t cause problems, I believe they should have the job. And I don’t let catty women to make comments about him. It is not proper in any work place.