Productivity VIP – Mini Story - Effortless English

hasn’t actually gotten any results during the last two years, starting two yearsago until recently.So he had been an excellent employee, but then two years ago somethingchanged and since then he has been a mediocre employee. Kind of a bademployee and it got so bad that finally, one day, his boss called him into the officeand his boss said “Ray, your productivity sucks. You’re spinning your wheelsevery day here. You need to shape up or ship out.”Now, Ray went home that day and he thought about it and he realized that hisboss was, in fact, correct, was right, and so he decided to change immediately.The first thing he decided was to complete all of his tasks in just 24 hours. He didall of his tasks with good quality and he did them lightening fast; super fast. Hedid all of his tasks lightening fast.Next, he decided to answer his emails only on Tuesdays and Fridays. He waswasting too much time every day on email, so he decided to do them only onTuesdays and Fridays and he decided to do them quickly too. So, in fact, everyTuesday and Friday he burned through his inbox super fast. He burned throughhis emails. He read them and replied to them very, very quickly. He burnedthrough them, but that’s not all.Finally, he decided to be very, very proactive at work. Not to just wait to be toldwhat to do, but rather to go find things to do. What he did is he looked for andidentified potential problems and he solved them before they got bigger.Well, of course, his boss was very, very happy with all of this and so after sixmonths his boss came to him and said “Ray, you’re doing a great job again.You’re on my A-Team now. You’re an A-Player. You are super productive andbecause of that I’m giving you a raise. I’m giving you an increase in your salary.”Of course, Ray was very happy about that and his boss was very happy too andthey were both very, very happy.* * * * *And that’s the end of our second version of this story. Now, as usual, in the third versionwe’re going into the future. We may be dreaming it, we may be imagining it, but we’rethinking this is going to happen in the future.* * * * *In the future there will be a guy named Ray Johnson and he’s gonna’ work at IBM.www.EffortlessEnglishClub.com