DEV-T-ITIS

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a good way to drive someone nutty is to dev-t them by leaving incomplete cycles in their work area. Suppressive persons must surely have a great time with this type of game! To come into one's working space and to constantly find one's work undone, messes left, things that should be put away left out, and so on. It's enough to make any conscientious person first puzzled, then irritated, then angered, and finally. go into despair. The end product? "Well, no one else cares. Why should I bother?" The sad thing is that most of this dev-t-itis doesn't come from suppressive persons but from your "well-meaning" co-worker. Being dispersed by what is obviously too much randomity, they pour a glass of milk and leave the container on the counter to dev-t someone else or to go to waste. Their attention is dispersed by so many incomplete cycles they haven't handled that as soon as the glass is filled, they shift their attention off the container and it's forgotten. So, someone else has to put it away, and also clean up the bit that was spilled. The sloppy job seems to go hand-in-glove with this. (FO 3127)