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Any other managers notice that workers on Adderall will spend enormous amounts of time on totally non-productive or completely unrelated tasks?
by AJ007 9y ago
Any other managers notice that workers on Adderall will spend enormous amounts of time on totally non-productive or completely unrelated tasks?
- dogles 9y agoThis is not necessarily related to the medication. ADD often represents as hyperfocus, to the detriment of the things you should be focusing on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus
- thrwaway657 9y agoSorry but you're wrong, adderall is known to make people focus on inane things. This happens with ADD too, but it is more exaggerated and pronounced with adderall.
- comicjk 9y agoI do this all the time. I have been diagnosed with ADHD, but I'm not on any medication for it. I think you're confusing the treatment and the disease.
- tarboreus 9y agoI noticed this in college. My adderall-using friends and roommates would take a pill to study for a test, and sometimes that's exactly what they'd do. But sometimes they'd obsessively clean their room or get into a Wikipedia editing war or corner someone and talk their ear off about a pet topic.
- tr0ut 9y agoYes absolutely. Not a manager but I noticed this. I think there is also a state of mania involved. While not on these drugs you have a better sense of what is worth effort rather than this euphoric feeling of doing anything for the sake of it. Adderall and the like are not magic pills that make the most important work/tasks get done first and effectively.