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Subject:HUMOR: Should I use common sense? From:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:45:24 -0800 (PST)
Hey gang,
As you may know, one of the newest trends in the universe is "common sense."
Its supposed to be related to intelligence and "having a frickin' clue", but
actually quite different. For example, I hear common sense can be used to get a
job done in a timely and efficient manner without resorting to elaborate and
unnecessary methodologies that merely bog down the documentation process into
marginally useful administrative work.
This interests me a lot. I am unfamiliar with doing my job in a rational
manner. I just mindlessly show up every day and plug text into holes and apply
styles. I follow our extnsive set of Maturity Model rules and never once
thought about just using common sense to do my job.
However, last week I attended a seminar on the value of common sense. The
speaker, Dr. Daniel Snakinscammer has developed a comprehensive set of common
sense templates for use in work-related environments. For example, one of his
most respected methods encourages the use forks to eat lunch instead of ramming
one's lunch in their face-hole with their fingers. When I tried using this
Fork-based Food Consumption system, I was amazed at how productive I was. I
could pack food into my drooling maw at twice the speed as before.
I am curious, how many of you are using common sense in your work? Is it
working out for you? How did you go about getting a hold of the necessary
people to approve your common sense ideas?
I'd really love to ignore all your thoughts on this topic.
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Andrew Plato
Senior Executive Master Technical Communicative Artist
Loathsome Industries
www.server-full-of-worms.com
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