Re: [Avid-L2] Was "Please put your hands together", now "Efficiency Experts"

On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Mark Myers wrote:

> The really scary thing is that we all know people who talk this way,
who are actually serious. I once told one of my clients that if their
company spent as much time actually working, as they did re-arranging
their office space to improve efficiencies, they'd get a serious amount
of work done.

I add:

The thing about efficiency experts is that it's not easy to quantify
if they are wrong. I once edited a corporate series in which
efficiency improvement methods were acted out so that employees would
better understand them. The result was the opposite (but of course, I
said nothing, being the mere tool of their madness). I'm sure that
their clients were satisfied with the training videos because they
SEEMED to be making a point, though in a very obtuse way.
Disclaimer: My father was an efficiency expert. I learned a lot of
things from him on the subject, which explains a lot about what kind of
person I am. ;)

Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
NBC Today Show, New York

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