5 minute rule

So the never fucking ending saga of Slingblade continues. I don't really want to go into examples but is he is dumb and getting dumber. Aside from is lack of retaining information he moves very fast in order to seem busy or to impress others, I am not really sure. Teaching him is pointless, he forgets everything minutes after you tell him. I am sorry to report I have given up trying. I hate to quit, but I need to move on and focus on my job. I try and find jobs that will occupy large portions of his day.

During my commute time, an hour, I try and think of new ways to make him more helpful to everyone around us. Boom it hit me...5 Minutes!!! If he, or any employee, spent 5 extra minutes a shift they could go from an OK worker to a valuable team member.

When Slingblade puts his/our mise away he often doesn't label things or even put them in appropriate sized storage containers. This would take a total of a minute through out the day. When he puts the entire collection of mise(a large sheet tray) 25 seconds could be spent looking to see if the tray fits instead of forcing the tray where it doesn't belong. Reading the prep list, 10 seconds, before making a trip to the walk-in to retrieve not only the "lemon" he needs for this prep item, but the other "lemon" he will need for the next task on the prep list would actually save him the 30 seconds it takes to walk to the walk-in. So by spending 10 seconds he gains 30, not bad.

The idea is that if just a small amount of time is spent doing every task a little better then great things WILL happen for the entire team. Five minutes doesn't sound like allot of time.... because it isn't when you are working a 10+ hour shift. Just a little extra bit of "I care" goes along way.