Bigger productivity drain: March Madness or Coaching Change?
This almost seems like a bizarre question to ask since some people actually watch the tournament games at their desk or simply skip work all together to watch the games. However, those are finite blocks of time with a start and stop over a 3 week period. This coaching change feels like it has been going on forever and I find myself spending way too much time visiting and revisiting multiple message boards for the slightest hint of any coaching change confirmation. This multi-week, borderline stalking makes me think I have collectively wasted way more time on this stuff than I should have and that this has surpassed March Madness in terms of productivity drain. For the sake of the fan base and the economy, Jimmy needs to come home soon. Interested in your thoughts.
December 12th, 2014 at 4:52 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 5:05 PM ^
The getting fired thing is a real fear. MM takes place right after end-of-year reviews, so plenty of time for everyone to forget about how terrible you are at your job. But all this is going on right before reviews.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:56 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 6:03 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 5:10 PM ^
My question was really trying to validate my own neurosis resulting from this coaching search and the extent it is effing up many of my normal daily activities.
December 12th, 2014 at 4:53 PM ^
March Madness. Im not filling out 50+ coaching change brackets.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
I only fill out one or two brackets during March Madness. The tournament lasts three weeks. We have been talking about coaching change since the Minnesota game and it is obviously going to drag to the end of the NFL regular season.
CC is a much larger drain than the NCAA.
December 12th, 2014 at 7:36 PM ^
If you are following carefully and updating regularly you would be filling out well more than 50 CC brackets...and drawing smokescreens in many margins!
December 12th, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
Coaching change...no question. I can put on a game at work and listen while I get work done (until the last 2 minutes). But I have been checking about 5 websites seemingly every 15 minutes during the CC.
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December 12th, 2014 at 4:55 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 5:55 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 4:56 PM ^
CC by far. All I have to do during MM is check scores here and there, I can wait until I'm out of work to watch. If Michigan's playing during work it sucks, but that's life. With this I want to read every bit of analysis even though I know it's useless. Plus MM is Thursday/Friday starting at noon. This is 24/7, IT COULD LITERALLY HAPPEN ANY TIME AND IF I'M NOT AMONG THE FIRST TO KNOW, I, JUST, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, MAN...
December 12th, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^
This! At one point during my exam today the thought of how mad I would be if it was announced while in my exam crossed my mind.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:12 PM ^
Times when CC has entered your consciousness. I would not want to admit to all of them.
December 12th, 2014 at 4:55 PM ^
Anxiety alone, its Christmas and I'm not getting any shopping done and this isn't good. I keep telling myself tomorrow.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:00 PM ^
Coaching change since I always take off work the first two days of the tourney and from there the rest of the games are either evenings or weekends so the tourney doesn't really affect my work.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^
March Madness is addicting fun. This is addicting annoying bullshit.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^
I would have to say the Coaching Change because it is far more involved to scan Twitter and read articles and snippets than it is to get quick updates on the game you're not able to watch or listen to at your desk. With the modding thing thrown in, I find myself coming back here every time a query is running or a spreadsheet is being updated or there's a conference call that I am only marginally involved in and so on.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:06 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 5:08 PM ^
This one's not even a contest. Clearly it's CC. I'll even be taking off the first two full days off March Madness to watch every game and I still anticipate getting more done than the facade I call "work" right now.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:08 PM ^
The reason is with MM you always have next year. With this you may never have a shot at him again..
December 12th, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^
You can actually plan for March Madness - you know when the games are in advance and if you want you can take Thursday and Friday off ahead of time. With the Coaching Change you're constantly checking articles and blogs and Twitter, and then double checking how reliable some random blog you've never heard of because they said Harbaugh was coming or not coming.
Even if you aren't taking it off, March Madness is a pretty much universal thing so everyone at work has an accepted level of productivity decline. With the Coaching Change only big Michigan fans like us are gonna be consumed by it.
On top of all that, even if it's your actual team playing in the tourney, you can either just score watch or DVR and watch later. You aren't reading every random article talking about whether or not a coach's wife is willing to relocate.
Bottom line - I literally wake up in the middle of the night checking my MGoBlog HD app to see if there is any news. That doesn't happen during March Madness.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:47 PM ^
December 13th, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
Stuff happens during the March Madness First Round that demands my immediate attention.
As to the CC, I'm not following it in real-time like many seem to be doing. At least not yet. I don't expect anything to happen this week, so I come onto MGoBlog on my terms.
That said, the volume of my time spent on the CC is going to clobber the time I spend on March Madness. Once I'm on here, it's hard to get off.
December 12th, 2014 at 5:17 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 5:17 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 5:18 PM ^
It's the CC...and not really close. The tournament only has a handful of games on during the work day. I'm checking this stuff out hourly for the last week at least. I have a problem.
December 12th, 2014 at 8:10 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 5:22 PM ^
... without question. I take the days off because of it. CC is just an IFTTT away.
December 12th, 2014 at 9:48 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 5:29 PM ^
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December 12th, 2014 at 6:00 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 6:12 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
Coaching change. I'm always checking twitter and this site to see if there's any news...Most of it ends up being "news." I don't want someone else to have to tell me who the new coach is. I want to be one of the first to know because I saw it on twitter and here.
December 12th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
CC is a bigger productivity drain, and not even close. During MM, at least you know when the games are scheduled and which teams to watch out for, so you can plan your working hours around it. I visit mgoblog at least 20 times a day just so that I don't miss any information that is coming out, and productivity just plummets to rock bottom.
December 12th, 2014 at 6:33 PM ^
I had portraits of Harbaugh tattooed inside my eyelids so that the only times that I'm not staring at MGoBlog (sleeping or blinking) I can still see images of our next coach.
December 12th, 2014 at 6:43 PM ^
With March Madness I at least know the schedules, who's playing who, scores etc. and I'm less interested in catching every single detail.
The coaching search, on the other hand, has me clinging to every tweet, interview, blog and/or Facebook post, searching for clues and new information.
It feels like I'm putting together a puzzle or investigating a mystery, using instinct to determine real from fake.
Plus the whole thing is hilarious when I step back and think "all this to find out who might be the next coach at Michigan?" - I F5 MGoBlog what feels like hundreds of times per day and read about so many others doing exactly what I'm doing. So yup... All this to find out who might be the next coach at Michigan...
(Resumes F5-ing)
December 12th, 2014 at 6:52 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 11:05 PM ^
who is rhonda jones, and why isn't she figured into your march madness comment?
December 12th, 2014 at 6:56 PM ^
March Madness doesn't have me checking twitter for sketchy information, mgofeeds banging on my phone, or me compulsively checking on here.
December 12th, 2014 at 6:56 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 7:01 PM ^
December 12th, 2014 at 7:17 PM ^
For me, coaching change for sure. I'm happy to randomly check score updates during the tournament, except when UM is playing.
December 12th, 2014 at 7:18 PM ^
Coaching change by a mile. March Madness is something fun that you can enjoy with your co-workers. This coaching change is the kind of thing that makes you question the choices you've made in your life.
December 12th, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^
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December 12th, 2014 at 8:11 PM ^
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