Optimal Operation
Hanners operates at -17% best
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Just retired from an interim temp job that I nonetheless spent the last 18 years doing. I gave 100% for years until I finally figured out I was just annoying everyone. I then - slowly and reluctantly and VERY imperfectly - learned to do just what was expected of me, and no more. That was the hardest part of my work -- always feeling that I was underachieving because the company didn’t want and wasn’t comfortable with 100% Then the company was sold recently and the new owners not only didn’t want 100% -- they wanted mindless drones who were little more than living voice response systems. I tried to adjust to being a mindless drone, couldn’t manage to, and got out before they fired me for not being robotic enough. So I get it. I was lucky enough to always have immediate supervisors who understood that or I would never have lasted as long as I did. The best jobs are usually the ones where you have a boss like Dora, who has reasonable expectations, more than a little compassion and empathy, and -- importantly -- is the top of the hierarchy. My last immediate supervisors were good folk caught by the same forces I found increasingly difficult to survive. I miss them and my incredible co-workers. I do not miss the soul-crushing stress of trying to please people at the top and far away who were trying to micromanage via telescope using negative feedback as a control procedure. The stress of cutting my income in half is rough -- but still better than that.
Remember, if you ever want to give 100% (and more), do it for yourself and not for someone else. If you get appreciated for it, all the better. If you don't, at least you can appreciate yourself and won't be disappointed.
Just remembered that Dora and Martin used to date, seems like forever
Wouldn't -17% of Hanner's best be 17% of her worst?
Which should give you some idea of just how good Hanners is. :D
Dora is so understanding here. Warms my heart. ❤️
I operate at 100% of my current ability. Whatever that means at any given point in time just varies wildly.
Is this when we cut to Claire’s inner self (Marigold-yoga-style) attempting to maintain the engine output at a super precise 70.000% ?
Engineer!Claire had better be Welsh and wearing overalls.
I OPERATE AT 10% OF MY BEST AT ANY GIVEN TIME! OTHERWISE PEOPLE START TO EXPECT SHIT!
YB, I hate to break it to you, but we already expect absolute shit from you.
Dora carefully maintains the schedule so no matter how many people are on shift, they approximate 2 FTE.
If Emily ever comes close to 2% of her best, the espresso machine as we know it is in danger
There is an appendix on Emily's contract, one of the conditions is she must never make the coffee glow!
If Hannelore ever goes above 50% of her best civilization as we know it is in danger
Yes price list, 69 _is_ good advice!
I always give 100% at work... 12% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 40% on Wednesday, 20% on Thursday and 5% on Friday
https://poets.org/poem/hay-horses
At work I aim for the 80% solution. Anything beyond 80% has diminishing returns. To get that extra 20% usually takes as much time, energy and cost as the original 80%. And usually does not provide huge benefit.
My boss's ex-boss used to tell me to go for the 80% solution. "We can have someone manually fix the rest." We deal with enough data that the 80% solution would result in millions of problems that would take months to manually solve. Except that's per day, so we'd need to hire hundreds of people to be able to do the manual fixes quickly enough to just keep up. Also, the data is frequently uniform enough that the least solution is more than 90%. Sure, I get that I don't need to cover *every* edge case. But I generally need to cover more than 80% of the edge cases. That said, most jobs aren't like mine. I program. Jobs where one creates systems to do things in general require more thorough completion than those where one is simply doing things. After all, to err is human, to really fsck things up, you need a computer. And that's what I do if I only do the 80% solution. To be clear, I'm agreeing with your statement - but some of us fall on the other side of that 'usually'.
Airlines often have it in their operating manuals that the jets should take off with their engines at quite a bit less than 100% power, especially if they're not full of people and luggage and runways are long and the air is cold and thick. They can pull out some spreadsheets and find out if 72%, 70%, or even 69% is enough. That makes the engines literally last a LOT longer before they burn out.
Hanners is basically Ozymandias (the Watchmen one) who programmed herself for OCD as behavioral camouflage. Everyone thinks that her mom is the scary one, but Hanners Unchained would have her mom hiding under the bed.
"Release the virus." https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2443
Dora never hires anyone called Kelvin. Their absolute best gets nothing done, and they keep screwing up the iced drinks.
GDI
Soo, what type are the blood packs? I hear not everyone likes O+. Asking for a friend.
Does anyone else open the images in another tab and zoom to 200% to read the chalkboard behind them?
I only remember to every now and then. “Blood Pack 420 lol” (something like that at least.)
For anyone who works in the service industry, Dora is giving good advice. One goes in, ready to give it your all. And you realize, you get nothing more that those who just coast their way through. In the corporate world, this'll apply to your boss as well. Take it easy Claire, the world is full of jobs that need doing, and No one expects more that C+ effort.
There are people who expect more than C+ effort. I've had a boss who expected more than A+ effort. There's no pleasing people like that, though, so you shouldn't worry about it.
Dora is wise and perceptive.
To be honest, Hanners absolute best is probably everyone else’s 200%. Like Hanners in cleaning mode? Scary good.
I think your math is backwards
This is me every time I start a job 😅
likewise
I love Dora so much. I've missed her.
She’s always been my favorite character
Oh Claire, it's possible to have this feeling even when you are gainfully employed in your field.
And even when you are the recognized expert in your department, the one everybody counts on, the one that fixes all the mistakes everyone else makes.
Those kind eyes in the second to last panel.
It's funny how, compared to Clinton, Claire is the chill one. But compared to almost everyone else, she is definitely chill-less
Claire and Clinton timeshare their chill. Clinton has it at the moment.
Claire is doing better than me. My first "oh no..." moment lead to a massive panic attack and two more years of joblessness.
Oof
I have this conversation with myself at least once a week. Delivering pizza after spending 8 years earning an advanced teaching degree... and I'm making as much (if not more) $$$ than I would as a first year teacher. 😞😅🤑
It doesn't hurt to try at those jobs .you never know what' you'll learn in them.
Yes, but honestly? 100% effort is a lot of effort. It may be what we say we're giving to our work, but I doubt most people give more than 90%. 70% seems like a fairly good amount - enough to get the job done, but enough focus remaining to take care of onesself.
Saaaame. 13 years in and I tell myself it’s temporary…and not to try hard.
Dora's a pretty good boss
17% for hanners sounds believable
I think that's -17% not ~17%.
At least Dora is honest
Honestly, even like 25% of her output is more than enough. Someone should order a banana smoothie.
Dora is the manager I want, realistic goal setting
Beat me to it. Setting realistic and reasonable expectations based on the quality of the job is an absolute need.