Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work

trinitymike Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - Well, to be honest how many meetings do you have to discuss building a house or fight a fire? One? ...you create a plan then you implement it...and you don't have a meeting halfway through drywalling a room or putting out a fire...

trinitymike Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - You sound like no-one would WANT to work with you for very long, so hey, you get your wish.....

trinitymike Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - Lol...Sounds like you were an office monkey who REALLY shouldn't be criticising anyone else work ethic; You like managers b/c it sounds like you would get NOTHING done if you weren't on a very short lease.

trinitymike Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - Well, I made it very clear that I 'gang' my email replies and if you want an answer other than the two 1/2 hour periods a day I set aside to reply to email, then either look it up yourself or make a brief phonecall to me.

trinitymike Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - Really? Thandie Newton's was far less enlightening then this one....and that's just the one I can think of off-hand...TED sometimes has really pointless talks...

xjustamem0ryx Says:

Apr 1, 2012 - close enough ;)

PastTime777 Says:

Apr 1, 2012 - The cube farm is the problem. Too much noise. 50 people in a room in 5x5 cells, I can hear everyone. People need offices with walls that go to the ceiling.

MrGalt Says:

Apr 2, 2012 - These don't sound like real jobs. At my last job I wish I could have told my supervisor, "Man, get off my back. I could drill this well a lot better after lunch. Hold my hardhat while I go check my tweets."

trinitymike Says:

Apr 2, 2012 - They ARE 'real jobs'; they are just different types than what you do.

SnoozieQZ Says:

Apr 3, 2012 - Actually a lot of employees don't want to be handed company laptops and work from home, because that means the company can more easily take advantage of its employees and demand that they put in more hours than they should have to (late nights, weekends, etc). Employees are smart to not want to be handed an electronic leash.

trinitymike Says:

Apr 5, 2012 - A lot of us DO, though....it really depends on what you do and what you want to be doing down the line. If you love your job, it stops being about the hours and starts becoming about the thing you are creating.

MomoTheBellyDancer Says:

Apr 7, 2012 - The problem is: If you don't instantly respond to the demands to coworkers, you're seen as antisocial and "not a team player".

MomoTheBellyDancer Says:

Apr 7, 2012 - By the way: what this man says goes completely against Agile processes.

BravoSquirrel Says:

Apr 13, 2012 - With exception a very select few, every meeting I've ever attended is an incredible waste of time.

GeorgiaDiaconescu Says:

Apr 17, 2012 - and that means that.. ?

XianBlackman Says:

May 3, 2012 - What he seems to be getting at is workers self management. Anarchists and Socialists have been talking about this as early as the 1800s. There hasn't really been many examples of this happening in history, other than the Paris Commune and the Spanish Revolution nothing recent anyways so who really knows how effective it would be in a modern era. (cot'd)

XianBlackman Says:

May 3, 2012 - The best way to approach this experiment would be giving potential small business owners the opportunity to join co-operative industries and manage a share of the company. Who would fund and organize these ventures I'm not sure, possibly several sources. People independently start these companies all the time and they are far more efficient and successful than independent small business owners. One way people work more independently and efficiently.

abusehername Says:

May 8, 2012 - I want him as my boss.

degen83 Says:

May 13, 2012 - Some days its exactly what he says, so much going on that you can't get anything done. Other days I have a huge amount of time to myself at work to get stuff done, it depends on the day and what projects we have going on. I do work better from home at times, but there are parts of my job that I have to be on site at work to do. This guy has some good points but seems to be focused on certain corporate jobs. A lot of jobs you have to be on site, construction, food, etc.

carolynglitters Says:

May 14, 2012 - sounds like someone with little discipline.

Pokiehl007 Says:

May 18, 2012 - It's not that they want the workers to feel uncomfortable. It's a trust and control issue. They don't trust the workers to get the job done and/or they fear the loss of control.

HazedNote Says:

May 19, 2012 - Oh, come on. He meant third world country businesses. Pretty sure someone speaking at TED isn't naive enough to think there's NO offices in Africa.

evilclown99 Says:

May 20, 2012 - I like working at home because it gives me more time to fuck the dog and take more masturbation breaks.

SeventhSun Says:

May 24, 2012 - ▶▷▶▷ Discipline comes when there is an important task at hand.