{"id":51385,"date":"2024-02-15T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=51385"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:53:15","slug":"qotd-multitasking-is-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/02\/15\/qotd-multitasking-is-a-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Multitasking is a myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Now I have begun referring to myself as a slasher, I thought I should probably check that my potential hirers in the fantasy world of secure employment \u2013 the great unslashed, as it were \u2013 correctly understand what the word means. So I went a-Duck-Duck-Going and found this definition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Slasher: Someone who works in multitask mode<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh no, I don&#8217;t like that. Multitasking is a myth. Multitasking means simultaneously doing lots of things equally badly. A Jack of all failures? No thanks. Let&#8217;s see if there&#8217;s an alternative description &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Slashers come from all walks of life, and are also referred to as &#8220;hustlers&#8221;\/&#8221;work-a-holics&#8221;. They are prone to work endlessly in pursuit of accomplishing their goals because of their thirst and hunger for success &#038;\/or personal fulfilment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Almost right: the thirst and hunger come from not being paid on time. This can leave a slasher feeling poor SLASH homeless.<\/p>\n<p>Alistair Dabbs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/09\/27\/something_for_the_weekend_\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Multitasking is a myth: It means doing lots of things equally badlySome people just like to take the p*ss&#8221;, <em>The Register<\/em><\/a>, 2019-09-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I have begun referring to myself as a slasher, I thought I should probably check that my potential hirers in the fantasy world of secure employment \u2013 the great unslashed, as it were \u2013 correctly understand what the word means. So I went a-Duck-Duck-Going and found this definition: Slasher: Someone who works in multitask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,57,41],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-51385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dmN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87369,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385\/revisions\/87369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}