a good way to
drive someone
nutty is to dev-t them by leaving incomplete cycles in their
work area.
Suppressive persons must surely have a great
time with this
type of
game! To come into one's working
space and to constantly find one's
work undone, messes
left, things that should be put away
left out, and so on. It's enough to make any conscientious person first puzzled, then irritated, then angered, and finally. go into despair. The
end product? "Well, no one else cares. Why should I bother?" The sad thing is that most of this dev-t-itis doesn't come from
suppressive persons but from your "well-meaning"
co-
worker. Being
dispersed by what is obviously too much
randomity, they pour a
glass of
milk and
leave the container on the
counter to dev-t someone else or to go to waste. Their
attention is
dispersed by so many incomplete cycles they haven't handled that as soon as the
glass is filled, they
shift their
attention off the container and it's forgotten. So, someone else has to put it away, and also
clean up the bit that was spilled. The
sloppy job seems to go
hand-in-glove with this.
(FO 3127)