Crossed Wires

In the office world, of which I definitely find myself part of now, multitasking is often a very multi-handed affair. You continue typing or logging in with one hand, while taking a note with the other. The phone is in one hand and with the other you’re sorting mail for the different people in the office or fishing a post-it out of the drawer on one side while pulling a calendar from a file on the other side. The trick is remember which item is destined for which place or person, and this gets to be on a pretty big scale. Time sensitive has a whole new meaning to me now. This script needs to be copied by the end of the day, this memo has to be out by tomorrow morning (and so completed during today), this inventory within a week, but you have to consult with so in so, who’s busy and so that has to happen before said completion due date. Or whatever.

It’s a physically and mental juggling act. And I guess everyone does it in their daily lives; just as well because doing it REALLY well certainly helps in the workaday world.

But with a lot of people in the office, the literal multi-handed part of all this means they twist their phones around a lot and so the cord gets so wrapped up, its in a big coily knot. I've learned to do the phone with my left hand, write with my right, so I don't ever have to transfer and avoid all tangles.