20151014 (productivity)

Get your ducks in a row

First things first many who

Have problems with order

Will think it worthwhile to

Spend a few minutes prioritizing

As if this extra task diminishes

The total rather than merely

Increasing delay we who have 

Specialized in that procrastination

More commonly mañanaism will

Add examples to a series to call it 

Composition, embellishment, decor

Understanding well how that got me

Into this mess in the first place 

Following Franklin’s famous dictum

Do not put off to tomorrow what 

You can put off to the day after

Working ahead of schedule only

Makes the task seem facile why 

You killin’ this job take it easy

And we’ll all get another pay day

The wages of diligence and efficiency

Get deducted from the wages of not 

Getting a heart attack long breaks

And an occasional lapse of productivity

Known as an unobserved nap a call

To your bookie or a lengthier stay

In the bathroom about as long as

The sports pages and maybe the funnies

Out of frustration those who pay

Wages rigidify rules one bathroom break

Leave your phones with the super

Five minutes is enough time to clean up

In the hope that the dollars aren’t 

Paying for dawdling or dillydally

I’ve oft cited Carnegie’s ruse telling

His workers they must produce more

In just this one special instance so give

Your best men we’re in this together

Then when they showed they could

Meet the goal considerate Andrew

Revised ok you’ve shown you can

Do it that’s what I’ll expect from you

Every day forward Frederick Taylor

Thought to make the process more 

Human humane by analyzing each 

Motion the Gilbreths added filming

To put the spin of objectivity on the

Process everybody left out the worker’s

Condition on a good day they’re fabulous

On a bad day they’re crap the whole

Area’s a minefield of adversarial distrust

As any court fraught with corruption 

Misstatement and fraud I’ve thought

What would be best is to meld the two

The worker revises methods but for 

His own benefit and reaps his share

Of the savings it works for Mondragon*

In the Pyrenees it could work here

c. J.S.Manista, 2015

*Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa - MCC, a group of manufacturing and retail companies based in the Basque Country