Work Motivation & Simple But Horrible

What kills your motivation at work? Dangerous Dave talks about a list from a survey of workers about what kills motivation at work including bad bosses. Plus, what simple task are your horrible at? Folding shirts and drinking from a glass made the list.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This, he's deeper in the den with dangerous date. Well,
anybody dealing with these ten things that work today? If so,
you have our sympathy because a new survey you looked
at the top things that can crush your motivation at work.
Number one Rude managers, So your boss being a jerk
can crush your motivation. It's followed by poor technology, constant

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calls or meetings, lack of flexibility. You'll only get negative feedback,
never anything positive. Hearing somebody else got a raise but
you didn't. Managers are senior staff, never sharing updates, not
keeping you in the loop, not getting recognition you deserve
on a big project. Hearing colleagues complain all the time
can actually ruin your motivation and repetitive tasks. So few

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more than made the top twenty. Being stuck inside when
it's nice out, finding out somebody else got promoted, a long,
boring commute, and having to work in silence in the
office where radios are banned. I don't know what's wrong
with people to do that. I'll keep you motivated deeper
in the two. Well, some people can fold the T
shirt perfectly in one second without even thinking about it.
My wife can tell you what I have to lay

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it out and do it very meticulously, and it still
looks like crap. We'll just have to refold, and refold
still comes undone before you even get it in the drawer.
People on social media are listing things that are so
simple to do, and yet somehow they're so horrible at them.
Some of the highlights estimating how much pasta to cook,
no kidding, wrapping gifts. That's another thing I'm not good at.
Following driving directions or giving directions, parallel parking, perceiving time, whistling, sleeping.

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I used to be really good at that, Now not
so much. Doing anything while somebody is watching, plying, eyeshadow,
hulu hooping, making rice, making a hard boiled egg, operating
manual can openers, eating with chopsticks, shuffling cards, playing hacky sack,
writing an ampersand which the AD's symbol. Somebody said rolling
my rs okay, other things that are simple but people

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are horrible at. I can't tie a balloon after blowing
it up. And somebody said drinking out of a glass
nine times out of ten, I slammed the cup into
my teeth or pour the drink on myself. I don't
have good depth perception. Wow, if you can't drink out
of a glass, you might need to go back to
a sippy cup. Tune again for another episode of Deeper
in the Den with Dangerous Daved right here.