Inefficiency- Is it a Pet Peeve?

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My father was an Engineer and a self appointed efficiency expert. Inefficiency has become a pet peeve of mine as well. Anyone else? I suspect that this is common among those on the spectrum.

(This replaces the other poll which was poorly worded.)

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Inefficiency, lack of any method and order... ugh, that pisses me off. And dealing with that on a project I'm involved in right now...

Yes! Oh my god yes, like nothing else

I've gotten better about this. Seems to me now, that efficiency is boring for workers. I mean at some point things become so efficient that you feel like a robot, and in fact could probably be replaced by one.

Plus when I was younger, change was easier. It takes more effort as we get older. Things are also changing faster and faster.

For me it's kind of, like.. the other side. Like, I'm really obsessed with efficiency and becoming more efficient, but inefficiency doesn't really annoy me. I assume no responsibility over other people's level of efficiency, so I just enjoy watching.

Productivity is very important to me.

Inefficiency doesn't really bother me.

I chose yes.

I hate inefficiency. I'm very into doing stuff with the minimum of fuss and bother. Sometimes I'm inefficient myself, when I can't see the easy way, but that's not so bad because I'm not aware that there is an easier way. But when I see it in myself or others, and particularly when others impose inefficiency on me, I detest it. I can't understand how anybody can maintain a work ethic when it's the norm to waste so much time - it's as if hard work is valued as an end in itself, even when it produces nothing of value.

The way governments and bosses are always telling us that we must work longer for less suggests that society is in crisis, that every ounce of human effort is required to stop us all going to the wall. Even the old and the disabled are being regularly looked at in the hope that they can be pushed back into the world of work. Yet the consumerist game is extremely wasteful, so we're basically working ourselves to death to inefficiently provide each other with things we don't even need.

Even giving money to charity can't be simple - there has to be a TV show or some kind of public spectacle, with everybody pledging cash via text messages, nobidy seems to want to just donate, they have to make somebody run a marathon dressed as Biffo the Bear first.

So often bosses have delegated one-off tasks to me that they could much more easily have done for themselves - explaining the details of what they want has often taken them longer than just doing it. Very often I've been completely unsuited for the role, but they don't seem to notice that, as long as they don't have to do it themselves.

But even when I can see the logic, I still hate inefficiency. I've sometimes wanted to make certain tasks more efficient at work, only to be told that those tasks aren't performed often enough to make it worthwhile to streamline them. Their reasoning is often perfectly sound, but once I know a task could be done using less labour, I find it painful to have to go the long way round every time.

I like the episode of Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law that dealt with inefficiency.