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Robotistry<p>Watching something stupid on Amazon, and the number of "use AI to eliminate busywork" ads are disturbing.</p><p>Doesn't it ever occur to any of these people that maybe the solution isn't "outsource the busywork" but "reevaluate whether the busywork is actually needed and lighten the load on your employees by eliminating unnecessary paperwork"?</p><p><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Busywork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Busywork</span></a></p>
Stephen Royle<p>Day 4246 of one man's mission to rid his workplace of the practice of pasting a picture of a signature into a Word document in order to approve it.</p><p>For one of the rare internal forms where we have set up electronic verification, I was asked today to "add my signature” to it. 🤦🏻♂️</p><p><a href="https://biologists.social/tags/aaarghcademia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aaarghcademia</span></a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/BusyWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BusyWork</span></a></p>
Stephen Royle<p><a href="https://biologists.social/tags/PetPeeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PetPeeve</span></a> I’m required to "sign" a form in Microsoft Word format, sent by email. It says “typed signatures not accepted”. So presumably they want a picture of my (fake) signature pasting in? And that is somehow better than me typing my initials?<br>There are software solutions for this e.g. docusign. More simply, I can reply to the email stating that I agree and they can keep that on file - it's time-stamped and auditable. Why make more <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/busyWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>busyWork</span></a><br><a href="https://biologists.social/tags/ResistanceIsFutile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistanceIsFutile</span></a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/grumpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grumpy</span></a></p>
Andy Polaine<p>Back to back meetings, clearing through email and Slack messages, admin – it all feels like work it's not. It's just <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/busywork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>busywork</span></a> and it's the junk food of work. It fills your day, but lacks nutrition and will make you ill or drive you into <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/burnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>burnout</span></a>. Very few of us have a role or career plan that is "doing lots of email and meetings." </p><p>More on this soon and I will not be adding to the cult of productivity.</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/CqV52PQKIkc?si=r0SOqG1mVPFndKJs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/CqV52PQKIkc</span><span class="invisible">?si=r0SOqG1mVPFndKJs</span></a></p>
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