The bottom line is ... I'm not as clever as I thought I was, and she's paying more attention than I thought she was.

The in-character way to address this is to knock her socks off for three weeks and then get lazy again. But obviously revealing too much of my potential is part of my problem. So I'll aim for notable (and hopefully maintainable) improvement.

I had a couple Krispy Kremes. I think they helped.

I had a co-worker about whom I was forced to say, "she's smarter than she's willing to be." But she made a couple of deeply stupid mistakes, showed up for work when she wanted to, and bloated several projects with bad product. I was very grateful when she left.

Her replacement, whom I hired, is far superior and works harder than I do. Eeeps.

I think the clever but lazy may be another Buffistas trait, since I've heard it too.

Poor ita. Hopefully she'll stop paying attention soon.

bon bon - you can edit your settings so that you do not show up in people's viewd profile place. I haven't been to friendster in yonks, but still.

I think the clever but lazy may be another Buffistas trait, since I've heard it too.

It makes sense, since didn't many of us get here as a kind of nerdy way to avoid doing work?

It's a fine line between having to work hard (the horror!) and doing better than just good enough.

she made a couple of deeply stupid mistakes, showed up for work when she wanted to, and bloated several projects with bad product

Aha! I've smoothed over any mistakes (none counted as deeply stupid), I show up quite regularly (although I may leave a little willy nilly), and I never bloat projects -- my sort of laziness trims them, in fact.

Okay, right. Back to work.

Speaking of mistakes, is "devision" a nifty new form of "division" or did a mistake on some stuff I put online make it past seven editors and merrily into print?

I'm thinking it's probably the latter.

Well, at least it's "division" on the web version now. Oy.

wrt Suela's ex-cow, something in my brain is kicking at me very hard to distinguish between coasting and actual fucking-up. I suspect this is entirely because I do so much of the former.

Calli, it's the seven editors. They were all coasting, speaking of.

I've been lazy at work this last year and a half (ever since I got my own office and my boss can't look through his window to see what's on my screen.)

Unfortunatly, I've proven to be very quick and efficient whenever there's a crisis to solve. And I kinda' like the crisises, as they make the day go faster.

Maybe I should be pretending my regular work is a crisis too? Except then I'd have no time for b.org.