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No, he’ll just do a half-assed job…

Which explains a lot about Chrysler… :)

@dave: funny and true.

It seems lazy and procrastination go hand in hand though.

Or assign the task to someone already overloaded with work.

It’s counter intuitive I know. What happens is – the already overloaded person with work will find a quick way to complete the task, simply so that they can mark it off their list of todo items.

Similar to one of my own philosophies—efficiency through laziness.

I guess it should be assigned “to a lazy (but responsible) man.” :)

I also like to call this “working smarter, not harder.” I guess that makes me a lazy person but I hardly ever believe in throwing more WORK at anything, only more THOUGHT should be invested to reduce work output to the bare minimum.

laziness is only one of three virtues: http://www.netropolis.org/hash/perl/virtue.html

I prefer Martin Fowler’s quote about laziness…

“I’m a pretty lazy person, and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.” - Martin Fowler

Just like Larry Wall says: A good programmer is lazy, impatient, and proud. Lazy so they won’t want to work hard, just smart. Impatient so they won’t waste their time doing stupid repetitive tasks. And proud so they make their code the best that it can be.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris

lazyness as a change agent sounds powerfull. i’ll put my lazyest friend to fix my company. nice finding you, p

I ordered a book from Amazon.com on how to beat procrastination….... still haven’t gotten around to reading it. True story….

I always called it being proactively lazy.

The idea is to have a conscious desire to do as little as possible, but still get things done.