I’m not working on X because when I start to look at it my brain seizes up with a formless sense of dread at even the familiar parts of the task and I can’t find the “start doing” lever.
I’m not working on X because the ticket for it was put in by that guy and I don’t want to deal with the inevitable nitpicking follow-up questions and unstated additional work.
I’m not working on X because if I start doing the easy parts that would commit me to also doing the hard parts. Maybe if I leave it, some other sucker will take it on and I won’t have to do it at all.
I’m not working on X because to even get started I would have to figure out how to disambiguate the requirements, and that requires a flexible mode of thought that is a bit beyond me right now.
I’m not working on X ’coz I don’t wanna and no-one can make me. X sounds tedious and unrewarding, and there’s so much of the internet I haven’t read yet.
I’m not working on X because no-one will notice or care that I didn’t specifically do X. If anyone asks I can say I was doing Y and Z today, act like they took up more time than they actually did, have an X-shaped amount of extra slack in my day, and get paid the same salary either way.
I’m not working on X because when I start to look at it my brain seizes up with a formless sense of dread at even the familiar parts of the task and I can’t find the “start doing” lever.
I’m not working on X because the ticket for it was put in by that guy and I don’t want to deal with the inevitable nitpicking follow-up questions and unstated additional work.
I’m not working on X because if I start doing the easy parts that would commit me to also doing the hard parts. Maybe if I leave it, some other sucker will take it on and I won’t have to do it at all.
I’m not working on X because to even get started I would have to figure out how to disambiguate the requirements, and that requires a flexible mode of thought that is a bit beyond me right now.
I’m not working on X ’coz I don’t wanna and no-one can make me. X sounds tedious and unrewarding, and there’s so much of the internet I haven’t read yet.
I’m not working on X because no-one will notice or care that I didn’t specifically do X. If anyone asks I can say I was doing Y and Z today, act like they took up more time than they actually did, have an X-shaped amount of extra slack in my day, and get paid the same salary either way.