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Productivity Fun

There are some days when trying to be productive sounds about as appealing as repeatedly slamming your face into your desk. Other times you would love to be productive, but you just can’t wrangle your mind into submission. Your minds seem to have a mind of their own as you type “cats with sunglasses” into Google images. Suddenly, there goes another quarter of an hour you could have used finishing off those budget reports.

We have talked about productivity a lot recently: take a look at “Social Media Versus Productivity” and bookmark cool productivity charts.

Today’s one wasn’t written to teach you how to be more productive. It was written to make fun of it. So let’s take a step back, stop taking the issue so seriously and have a few laughs at efficiency’s expense.

The Productivity Cartoon

Fans of dark humor should get a chuckle out of this. The video creator has come up with a ludicrously bad “productivity plan” for increasing the profits of the US at large. This includes putting everyone on zip lines, making older people work for less and installing “end it all” buttons in the homes of the elderly. Tasteless? Very. But if you can find humor in what is essentially Brave New World in quickly scribbled marker cartoons, you might enjoy it.

Cycle of Productivity

Cycle of Productivity

This honestly makes me laugh every time I see it. Just because it is exactly what I do every single day. The only difference is you could add “Watch YouTube“, “Read Cracked” and “Fly Into a Deadline Panic” in, as well. For those who are interested, my ‘delicious treat’ is vanilla wafers. Mm, vanilla wafers….

Meetings VS Productivity

Meetings VS Productivity

Office meetings are such a hassle. They seem to come just when you manage to start getting some real work done, and they waste more time than is ever necessary. Some bosses think it somehow boost morale, others are just trying to exert some authority over their workforce. Still others have forgotten what it was like before they entered the management world and had to attend the same pointless meetings again and again. This chart shows productivity versus staff meetings. Notice when the figure starts to go down.

Periodic Table of Procrastination

Periodic Table of Procrastination

I love a good periodic table joke. But then, I am a massive geek of which little can be redeemed. Still, this one is funny even to those who don’t find the elements that make up our world to be amusing. It shows all the different particles that make up screwing around instead of working. These are especially true for those of us who work at home at least some of the time. Honestly, I think they should have added “Looking at Chuck Norris jokes” in there somewhere, but maybe they couldn’t fit it into the tiny boxes.

Bermuda Triangle of Productivity

Bermuda Triangle of Productivity

Have you lost your productivity and wondered where it went? Maybe you are in shock, because out of nowhere it seemed to disappear. Much like the Bermuda Triangle seems to swallow up cruise ships and fighter jets, so to does the sinister Bermuda Triangle of Productivity. Which could also be called Social Media.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

Does anyone ever do everything they claim they are going to do tomorrow? I have given up on making any promises based around the next day, because I know that I am likely going to be just as lazy when I wake up as I was when I went to sleep. Maybe even more so. This little comic is the story of my life. They even managed to get my likeness in the second frame.

Pets Preventing Productivity

Pets Preventing Productivity

Another problem with working, studying or trying to do anything at home is the interruptions commonly stemming from pets. Somehow, animals are able to sense when you are reaching the peak of concentration. Then they use their furry wiles to break it. This is a hilarious collection of examples, showing the true mastery of pets skills in this regard.

There you are: we just cut into you productivity a little more by making you laugh at it. Now get back to work!

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40 Responses

  2. interesting and a great concept.. liked the last part of the post and i agree with it

  3. Hilarious post, Ann! I just had to Pin the Cycle of Productivity chart… which makes me wonder if I’m being productive or not? 😉 Working in this industry sure does add an extra touch of difficulty when you’re trying to get a project done. But sometimes you have to throw some fun, “unproductive” tactics into the mix in order to be effective. We’re alright with that!

  4. I really loved your post. It is witty and humorous. We writers generally have a very cynical and sarcastic look at the world. We are so caught up in finishing our work and meeting our deadlines that we forget to enjoy our life. We have forgotten how to sit back and relax. We really don’t have time to stand and stare, which is a real pity because you get to learn so many things just by observing things that are happening around you. I really wish people would understand this simple thing about life.

  5. It was a very interesting and amusing post. I liked the article very much. But what made it more wonderful, were the pictures. Each picture was meaningful but at the same time funny. We take our life and ourselves too seriously and we need to let our hair down every once in a while and enjoy. Life is too short for regrets so we must try to live it to the fullest and try to be a little less serious.

  6. It was a lovely blog. It was funny and yet intriguing at the same time. I also loved the pictures that you posted alongside your article, each one was perfectly explaining the content written beside it. There are times we get really very tensed about our work even when it is not required. We forget that we get only one life and we must live each moment of it instead of always thinking about work and other things. Sometime we must just go with the flow.

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