It's Not Just Rude, It's Ruining Your Brain

[liberalhistorian]

27. I completely agree and have been screaming against

multi-tasking and the damage it does, and the myth that it makes people "more efficient and productive", for many years. To no avail, sadly. The problem is that far too many jobs and schools now REQUIRE multi-tasking, with little understanding of how damaging and unproductive it is. It's the same thing with the ridiculous, inane trend toward "team work" and "team projects" in education and employment, which leaves individualism and introverts, and their very real and necessary contributions to the workplace and schools, in the dust, as well as actually discriminated against.

Take a look at the employment ads online or in newspapers (yes, they still do exist in newspapers!) and note how many require not just the usual crap but also some variation of "must multi-task" or "must be able to constantly multi-task". It's ridiculous and it leaves people like me, who've never been able to do that, in the dust.