Efficiency
Efficiency by I_eat_beans_for_breakfast December 1, 2019
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Sue: "To increase my efficiency while baking this cake, I'm going to gather all the ingredients from the fridge before I start mixing anything together."
Bob: "You're not being efficient, you're just being lazy. Now make me a sammich."
Bob: "You're not being efficient, you're just being lazy. Now make me a sammich."
Efficiency by lifeinhd August 16, 2010
Efficiency king
To do the absolute minimum in the workplace, making sure all tasks are completed to a minimum standard with absolutely no extras.
Lol he just does his work and leaves almost as if he knows his employer is nothing more than the medium by which money enters his account, he’s such an efficiency king.
Efficiency king by Big aldo January 1, 2022
Efficiency Bot
Someone who whines about efficiency and/or metrics all the time but barely does anything to actually fix it.
Vacation bot: “We call them Efficiency Bot but their full name is Corporate Efficiency Blockchain Database Metrics Champion Bot. What’s efficient about that?”
Or
Person A: “The metrics just keep getting worse!”
Person B: “Dude you’re such an Efficiency Bot. If you want the metrics to improve then start working instead of whining all day.”
Or
Person A: “The metrics just keep getting worse!”
Person B: “Dude you’re such an Efficiency Bot. If you want the metrics to improve then start working instead of whining all day.”
Efficiency Bot by Olivesandolives June 19, 2025
Efficiency Contextualism
The application of contextualism to efficiency—the view that what counts as efficient varies with context, that there is no context-independent standard of efficiency. Efficiency Contextualism argues that a practice efficient in one context may be inefficient in another, that measures that work in some situations fail in others. Efficiency is always efficiency-in-context, never efficiency-in-itself. The theory calls for attending to context, for asking not just "is this efficient?" but "efficient in what context, for what purpose, under what conditions?"
Example: "The management technique had worked brilliantly in the tech startup. When applied to the hospital, it was a disaster. Efficiency Contextualism explained why: context mattered. What was efficient in one setting was destructive in another. He stopped importing solutions without asking whether the context fit."
Efficiency Contextualism by Abzugal February 21, 2026
Efficiency Bias
The cognitive bias where one assumes that their preferred measures of efficiency are simply "efficiency"—neutral, objective, universal—while dismissing other measures as irrelevant or biased. Efficiency Bias is what makes businesspeople assume that profit measures efficiency, that what's good for the bottom line is what works. It's what makes policymakers assume that cost-benefit analysis captures all relevant values. Efficiency Bias treats one construction of efficiency as the construction, one perspective as the perspective. It's the favorite bias of those who benefit from current definitions of efficiency, who don't want to ask "efficient for whom?"
Example: "He presented the profit numbers as proof of efficiency. Efficiency Bias meant he never had to consider environmental costs, worker well-being, community impact. His measure was the measure; everything else was secondary. When she pointed out what was excluded, he dismissed her concerns as 'not relevant to efficiency.' The bias was invisible to him, which is how it worked."
Efficiency Bias by Abzugal February 21, 2026