I was chilling on the couch watching tv when my roommate came home. She left her purse on the kitchen counter, then came to join me on the couch. I realized after she sat down that I was thirsty, and I'd missed my opportunity to ask her to grab something for me when she was in the kitchen. So I sent a text to her phone, which was still in her purse on the kitchen counter.
She groaned, then got up to check her message:
"Hey, since you're up anyway, can you grab me a soda from the fridge?"
that is pretty lazy, especially on a pc where if you'd just have the energy to move a finger over to the right side of the keyboard to tap HOME once is all it would take.
Yeah, my right hand is on the mouse and my left hand rests on the left cmd/ctrl key to easily hit shortcut combinations. So it’s easier to hit cmd/ctrl+R or F5 instead of reaching across to the Home button with my left hand or letting go of the mouse with my right.
I've had so many discussions with fellow nerds about the efficiency of hand placement and movement. Mostly they and I agree, but for some reason I've never understood, no one approves of using the heel of the hand for modifier keys, especially Ctrl. It doesn't work on laptops but on external keyboards it's always seemed the most efficient to me!
I have never in my life tied and untied shoes every time I put them on, even though all of my shoes have laces. It takes a lot of force, but I slide into tight-ish dress shoes as well. With my hiking boots, I just pull the string over the clips. I have also known how to tie shoes decently quickly for as long as I can remember.
Or, OR, retail doesn't understand that it's all a convenience purchase at this point, which means they have to have inventory if they want money. I swear to god, every time i go to a store they never have what i want in stock, so i get my phone out and order it online while standing there angry.
we went to walmart awhile back to pick something up that was in stock in our store.
the asshole behind the electronics counter said "we don't have that in stock". didn't even look. didn't want to check his handheld after we showed him what the web site said.
we stood right there and ordered it online.. for delivery from the store.
we finished up there, swung through arbys drive through, then filled-up the car.
and we barely beat the delivery guy from the store home.
I was once shopping for an office chair, and since you can't tell what a chair is like to sit in by browsing online listings I went to Staples to try out their chairs on display. I found one I liked, and was ready to buy it. On a whim I used my phone and the store's wifi to look up the same chair on the Staples website, where I found it on sale for less money with free delivery included.
Still sitting in the chair in the store I ordered it online, saved some money, and then went home without having to take a heavy chair with me on the bus.
Maybe a hot take, but this is something that I'd ask to speak to the manager about. I don't want to do my job either, but I still do it. I'm certainly not going to stand in front of a customer and refuse to do my job.
Not exactly the laziest but I was in IT collaborating with a dev on a project for our MSP’s control panel. They were ignoring my meeting invites, emails and IMs for a few days and I was getting annoyed. They were upstairs in a separate building across from ours. Kind of a hike.
Rather than hunt them down like a normal person, i browsed to their drive and stuck a batch script in their startup folder that drew a cheeky Matrix-style animated graphic (first one was out then) that after 30 seconds or so faded out to a message asking them to contact me. I set it so it would pop up and maximize if they rebooted. I tested it a bit but wasn’t sure if it would work or even if they ever rebooted since we had dedicated workstations.
But apparently they shut down their machine every night. So the next day they stood up and freaked out yelling that they had been hacked before they saw the ensuing message.
They were pretty pissed off once someone calmed them down and they figured out what i’d done, but we got the project completed after that.
installed linux just to escape the windows disaster. turned out it was the right(and laziest) thing i could do. after initial setup it just sits there...working like clockwork since day one and hasnt skipped a beat.
no surprises. just works. if it ever doesnt work, there has been a thumbdrive permanently hanging out in the back of the box with timeshift updating every day. waiting. prepared for something to go wrong. so far havent had to use it. in fact i keep forgetting it's even there. i suppose i should switch it out once it fills up.
Probably a lot of other things I cannot remember, but the example I can think of it backing up a CD so I don't have to use either my external USB disc, battery hig Discman, or internal disc drive ( only on my old toaster desktop ) to listen to it. Hell, at one point I had my external USB disc drive connected to my toaster desktop at one point in order to not have to reach behind my old monitor.
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