Comments on: Interruptions Can Be Fatal http://maggie-jackson.com/blog/2009/12/08/interruptions-can-be-fatal/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:09:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JP http://maggie-jackson.com/blog/2009/12/08/interruptions-can-be-fatal/#comment-20 JP Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:20:21 +0000 http://maggie-jackson.com/blog/?p=25#comment-20 What I find so disturbing about a story like this is the implication that "business as usual" should and often does include such working conditions. My first thought is one of a kind of weird social pecking order that the more one can multi-task and wade through distraction, the more brownie points they get. Those lateral operators are just so old-hat, out of date fogies. Far more disturbing is the idea of cultural-corporate thinking expanding its boundaries exponentially. To explain: while engaging in research of agribusiness, I eventually stumbled into stuff that reminded me too much of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." - horrific working conditions, inhuman treatment of workers...all of course, for fun and profit, enjoyed primarily by the suits and their loved ones. Today in America, many immigrants legal or otherwise, are busy trying to survive their jobs intact, and losing digits, limbs and other body parts in the process. Why? Not necessarily because they are clumsy oafs at all...but because the line moves too damned fast! (time is money, blah blah blah.) That sad fact being the case, who's to say this profit-think has not invaded even the most sophisticated, touchy and technical of working environments? Thereby, the rush itself becomes the most dangerous distraction. What I find so disturbing about a story like this is the implication that “business as usual” should and often does include such working conditions.
My first thought is one of a kind of weird social pecking order that the more one can multi-task and wade through distraction, the more brownie points they get. Those lateral operators are just so old-hat, out of date fogies.

Far more disturbing is the idea of cultural-corporate thinking expanding its boundaries exponentially.
To explain: while engaging in research of agribusiness, I eventually stumbled into stuff that reminded me too much of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.”
- horrific working conditions, inhuman treatment of workers…all of course, for fun and profit, enjoyed primarily by the suits and their loved ones.
Today in America, many immigrants legal or otherwise, are busy trying to survive their jobs intact, and losing digits, limbs and other body parts in the process.
Why? Not necessarily because they are clumsy oafs at all…but because the line moves too damned fast! (time is money, blah blah blah.)

That sad fact being the case, who’s to say this profit-think has not invaded even the most sophisticated, touchy and technical of working environments? Thereby, the rush itself becomes the most dangerous distraction.

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