> I’ve noticed that if I respond to people’s emails quickly, they send me more emails.
> It is a truism, too, in workplaces, that faster employees get assigned more work.
Maybe there's irony I'm failing to perceive, but how exactly are these supposed to be good things from the fast worker's viewpoint? The truism is that working quickly is only rewarded by being assigned more work that's expected to be done even faster, which is a vicious circle if ever there was one!
> It is a truism, too, in workplaces, that faster employees get assigned more work.
Maybe there's irony I'm failing to perceive, but how exactly are these supposed to be good things from the fast worker's viewpoint? The truism is that working quickly is only rewarded by being assigned more work that's expected to be done even faster, which is a vicious circle if ever there was one!