# I am sick to freakin' death of multi-tasking

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 2, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-sick-to-freakin-death-of-multi-tasking/319764 "2005-09-02T18:01:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![BoringDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@BoringDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoringDad)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-sick-to-freakin-death-of-multi-tasking/319764/21 "2005-09-05T02:56:21Z")

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> [@rjk](#):
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> I agree completely with **pestie** and **BoringDad** : do one thing and do it right, until it’s done.

Well, actually, I don’t get single tasks done either. No, the ideal way to do it is to perfect the “Shrugging task onto co-worker and get them to thank you for it” technique. I’m a bad bad man.

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**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-sick-to-freakin-death-of-multi-tasking/319764/22 "2005-09-05T15:44:51Z")

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I see multi-tasking as a sign of weakness, why do two things when you can get away with doing one?  
This is much easier if you’re a man and you can say that it’s genetics that causes you to be lazy.

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