Jason Thistlethwaite
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15 lines
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- hamsterwheel work
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author: Jason Thistlethwaite
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Toil is a form of hamsterwheel work which is repetitive, manual, could be automated, and produces no enduring value. The original reference comes from [[SRE|site reliability engineering]], a practice developed at Google.
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## Examples of toil
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- A water cooler leaks, so somebody has to avoid the puddle or clean it up every day.
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- Double checking every single piece of work that is completed instead of more effective ways to prevent mistakes.
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- Throwing trash on the floor instead of into a trash can.
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