"do your best"

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Sounds good but it doesn't take into account

Opportunity costs
Sunk costs

Effort justification

I hate it when people tell me to do my best.

usually precious lil "people" only have the nerve to tell me "do your best", when they think that my "best" will not be good enough for any practical purpose.

that's why i don't like it when precious lil "people" have the nerve to tell me "do your best".

"do your best". your "best" depends on many factors. some factors, you control. some factors, someone else controls. some factors, nobody controls. some factors could be predicted accurately. some factors could not be predicted accurately. some factors could not be predicted at all. some factors constantly changing. some factors could be measured. some factors could not be measured. sometimes, i wonder, maybe every tom, dick and harry, is constantly doing their "best", but their "best" is just really bad, beyond imagination, for reasons that are not visible to the outsider. i HATE it when someone tells me "do your best". they would only say that if they thought my "best" was not good enough for any practical purpose. doing your "best" is better than doing your "worst", but "effort justification", "sunk costs", "opportunity costs", s**t.

even though home depot's training videos say that as long as you are doing your "best", you are always good with home depot, home depot does not actually practice what they preach.

"some people practice what they preach. some people practice preaching."

I really do think that most people are doing their best most of the time.

"Do your best" is a dumb thing to say. I think you make some really good points.

I hate those training packages. At some level of the hierarchy are there people who believe the company values are as stated? Quite possibly! Is there a trickle-down effect to the lowest-paid workers? Very rarely! Hypocrisy.

Various times I've been told to do my best & I've gotten criticized after. For some reason various people believed I was intentionally screwing up when I really was trying my best. I much rather avoid things I'm bad at if that's an option instead of wasting my time & energy trying my best for it to not be good enough.

I don't get why they say do your best its annoying, and then they judge badly after.

there is no way to measure "your best".

even if you did your "best", there is no way to "prove" that you did your "best".

what kind of "proof", proof of citizenship, proof of income, proof of purchase?

sometimes, i was doing my "best" and precious lil "people" had the nerve to tell me that i wasn't. they didn't believe me. and they didn't have to.

even home depot training videos say that "as long as you are doing your best, you are always good with home depot", but they do not practice what they preach. they just "practice preaching". (rolls eyes) (puke).

sometimes, someone's "best" is much worse than anyone could ever imagine, for reasons that are not apparent to the outsider. for example, @ work, some customers and servants just assume that i am "strong" and can lift whatever they purchased, but they do not know if i have a colostomy bag. having a colostomy bag makes it hard to lift anything. in other words, maybe i am physically weaker than i appear, to them.

My main problem with generic advice like this is it's not actually that useful. Everyone knows that if you do your best, you'll get the best outcome. But what exactly does "doing your best" look like? It means vastly different things depending on the situation you're in and what you're trying to do.

the home depot training videos say that as long as you are doing your "best", "you are always good with home depot". but even home depot doesn't keep that promise...

(rolls eyes) (puke)

annoying. gets on my nerves. how head cashier juan kept having the nerve to tell me "do your best". then he had the nerve to give me 20 minutes to sweep the sidewalk.

he needs to get made redundant

I should not be doing my best.
Because it means "use the most you have" or "give it all hardest you can give".
Because I might as well burn both ends of my own energy candle regardless of the impact of the input.

It does not help me, it does not help me learn, it does not make me help everyone more.
Unless it's life and death or that you have an overpowered build in real life like near infinite energy, it is worth unlearning.

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you do not get a "merit badge" for doing your "best". even home depot is not Boy Scouts.

home depot is just a minimum wage, part time, menial labor, unskilled labor, dumpsterfire "job".

any old monkey.

but even @ home depot, doing your "best" does not guarantee that you won't get made redundant. especially since home depot has been cracking down on "bad behavior".

(rolls eyes) (puke)