Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

One of the advantages of the computer age is the ability to edit, change formats, and change fonts almost instantly.  I resented supervisors changing stuff that was in written form up until moments before documents were released either in a hard copy or electronically.  Yes it is easy to change, but often the change was cosmetic at best and really important stuff that needed some thought was ignored.  The just in time nature of putting together documents for meetings often scrambled other deadlines or really shafted clerical staff that had to insert somebody's last minute "improvement".  The new standard is that almost nothing is ever "done" and always subject to revision.

This perceived ability to change stuff at will, really complicates getting any satisfaction from your job and there is always time away from doing stuff for meetings, conference calls, and the like which puts pressure on anybody that works these days.  Bosses act badly, supervisors eventually feel like everything is of the highest priority, which eventually doesn't work, and the peons end up working off the clock, and skipping lunch or eating at their desk, because in lots of places that's what the bosses do because it's a 24/7 world out there.

I've always been a slow and cheap implementer of new technologies.  Eventually I have been able to see the benefit of Map Quest and faster processing times but it really took me a while to get a cell phone and let anyone know my number because I really did not want to get a lot of phone calls at all hours of the day or night and I could see only limited advantages for others to be able to track me down if they didn't like getting calls from me.

You are truly blessed these days if you can leave work when you leave work because there is already plenty to do when you get home.  It can probably wait til the morning.