Things are made worse when laptops are taken away on
business trips too. It’s all to easy to
get them out at the airport and in-flight to ‘work’ . But I pack mine in the
hold as I know NOTHING gets done.
Watching some folk in the airport and on flights this week,
here’s three conversations I think should have happened.
“Ashok, how are things?”
“Not so good boss. I got out the laptop in the lounge and
brought up the PowerPoint. I fiddled
around with a few fonts, changed the background colours a few times, watched a
YouTube video of a horse in Tescos and then moved slide 4 to slide position 18
and then back again. I moved that vertical bar on the left of the screen from
left to right which made the appearance of all the slides go larger and then
smaller and settled on how it was in the default setting. The new animation
package on Win 8 is great so I made the first set of bullet points slide in
like a skidding car and made all the strategy slides transition like breaking
glass. I watched another YouTube video of a monkey riding a pig and then took
out all the animations, shut down and boarded the plane”
“no different content then?”
“no”
--
“Simon, good to see you – how are the figures after the
weekend”
“same as last time boss. All I really did on the business
flight was change fonts in each column for 10mins until my meal came and then
had the laptop sit on my drinks tray until the battery ran out. I was watching
Batman for most of the flight. I paused it a couple of times and added a few formulas. Most of the time #REF kept popping up in the
menu bar so I gave up. With over 450 rows of numbers I figured I could write
the words BATMAN LOVES ROBIN in the cells and no-one would notice. In the end I
saved it under another name figures_edit_Sun_flight_01_Jan but nothing really
has changed”
--
“Tracey! What news on the comms project?”
“As yes, I got all emails from head office that I had been
cc’d on and spent the flight replying to all with either ‘yes’ or ‘fine’ to
everything and replying all back. I thought that was a useful and totally
productive way of using our IT resources!”
Stop taking your laptops away with you.
It’s wasting your time.
It’s wasting the earth’s energy resources.
And like this blog, only a few people appreciate the effort
you made.
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