Over the shoulder

One of the most annoying and frustrating things in this world is when a person watches your every move like a hawk. This can also be know in the business world as micromanaging. I don’t know anyone who likes when someone checks up on their progress and forces them to act or do a particular task their way. i am reading this book ” the design of everyday things” and it is quite interesting written from the point of view of a psychoanalyst. I read a section in the book that learning and doing a task needs variance for each user. This re furs to the fact that every person when given a task will approach the task differently then another. This difference is what makes each person that way they are. Now the reason it is vary annoying to have someone micromanaging is the fact that the personal applied variance or personal learning within a task can not be applied. The human brain and personality are individual for a reason and with in that individuality there must be freedom to live act and organize the best way each person finds fit. This is the reason that some can have completely dirty desk and other have overly organized desk. What I have learned but intrinsically already knew was that the messy desk is no less organized to the individual who keeps a messy desk than the desk that has been meticulously organized by its user. The reason for this is placed with in the cognitive process of memory. A person who keeps a messy desk will actually have some method to the madness that for that individual person works for them. Now micromanaging becomes annoying due to the fact that it can be like fitting a round peg in a square hole. The reason I am ranting about this information is I have a job at my flat. It is a fairly simple task of sweeping the street sidewalk and the garden of the apartment. A task that in reality has an endless array of possibilities in it’s completion.  Now this task takes me about 30 mins every day! not a big deal right. Well the biggest problem with the task is not the sweeping of leaves it is the elderly matriarch of the apartment. She is such a particular woman that for her the job can only be done one way and in a certain order. This is a problem for me because her procedure orders and process is much less efficient and time consuming then the way that I have processed in my head. Now we are not talking about rocket science here we are talking about the simple task of sweeping. The annoying part of my task nearly every week she will have a comment about how I should do the sweeping better (i mean her way) ? I have to bite my tongue and just tell her that I will do it her way. This make sweeping the walk each morning more of a task to the fact that I am being forced to fit a round peg in a square hole. Now the issue of micromanaging undoes the freedom of expression. Now I know that sweeping is a vary simple task but the book that I am reading has highlighted the fact the in reality the simplest of items or tasks are made complicated and this is due to thinking that everyone will approach a task or a item the same way! this is the illusion! The variance in learning and organization is a problem at the flat I am living because the woman wants to me live and work her way and the is a skew in approach. I don’t think it helps that she is Austrian either but it has become kind of annoying! I have not had a mother looking over my shoulder for some time and now I feel like I do again. I guess it is just Greece but if I was staying here for longer I would defiantly not stay because it is just too obnoxious. I just don’t need someone watching me like a hawk because I already know that I can’t be forced to do it their way it just doesn’t work for me! But I guess i will put up with it for another couple of months. Hopefully it gets better but it it doesn’t I will be a turtle without his shell and that would be unfun.