Blowing Leaves
Have you ever been given a meaningless time wasting task at work? I’ve been given tons of them. That’s one of the reasons I hate working so much.
I could hear the motor of a leaf blower going for what seemed like forever right outside my window. Finally fed up with all the racket, I decided to look outside to see what was going on. One of the grounds keepers was randomly blowing leaves off the sidewalk around our building. I say randomly because he would blow the leaves off the sidewalk in one section, then he’d move to the grass next to the sidewalk and blow the leaves from the grass onto the sidewalk that he’d just cleared. When he finally finished, I think there were just as many leaves on the sidewalk as there were when he started.
Whether or not he’d successfully cleared the sidewalk, it was a meaningless task. There are a lot of leaves around. If no one picks them up, they’ll blow right back onto the sidewalk again. I wonder how long it took him to do this around all of the buildings in the complex. This is a big complex so it’ll probably take all day.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:41 am
I know it is 8:00 on Tuesday morning when I hear the army of leaf blowers come down our street. I call it an army because there are about 10 of them blowing in a syncronized fashion making sure everyone is out of bed and doing something worthwhile with their day. Nobody should be sleeping in on a Tuesday morning!