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I would also be completely confused and offended for the rest of my life if a teacher had said something like that to me

This used to be my mentality in regards to work for the majority of my early twenties. Turns out pretty much every job out there will give you more work to do if you are too efficient. Eventually it reaches a point where you have too much on your plate and start getting burned out fairly quickly yet you've set the bar so high that anything less than maximum efficiency is considered lazy.

My new method is to work at 50%-70% efficiency while at work and I take my time on everything I'm asked to do. I've worked my ass off for about a decade at various jobs and was only rewarded with more work. I'll save my efficiency for the things I actually care about in my life.

I have a coworker that is currently in the situation I was in five years ago. He's working late every single day and barely has any time for personal business because he worked too hard at the beginning to "climb the ladder" that he's now overworked and miserable as more things keep getting piled on top. I was talking to him the other day and he was saying that he started working on the weekends because he has so much shit he has to do.

I used to sleep in my accounting class. Another student got offended and was like why doesn’t he just skip? My teacher said he comes in, gets straight As, he can take a nap if he likes.

A teacher once said to me, for acting antisocial: "if you keep pushing people away: one day, they'll just leave you alone"

I wasn't doing it for attention. I'm very glad to be largely left alone now. It's great.

My HS football coach once called me the dumbest smart kid he’d ever met because I kept mixing up my assignments for each play. Highest GPA on the team…

Didn’t get my ADHD diagnosis until I was 39, lol

I remember being told I needed to do homework at home and my assigned work at school. I was fast enough that I got through the assignment and started on my homework. Teacher told me to stop. I kept at it as I figured it was better than sitting around bored out of my skull. Teacher lost her shit and I got sent to the principal's office.

As a kid, this confused me. However, I kept doing it.

Maybe they meant that the student rushes/half asses tasks. Doing them quickly doesn't imply them being correct.

I had a similar problem.

Once, in school, i did all my homework fast. We had a week to do it, i handed it in after a day only. The teacher saw that, thought i'm very interested or that they give us too little homework, and then increased homework for me and everyone else. I learned not to do things quickly. It will only backfire.

My first grade teacher criticized me for not cutting straight enough on some time waster paper piecing project we were doing. Sorry for not having perfect motor control, I’m 6??

The problem is psychopaths are driven to leadership and they're not actually good at anything.

Basically their ego tells them that they're pareto people when they're really not and society can't tell the difference. Mostly they just steal labor. And they're too stupid and insecure to identify and empower the most efficient people.

I'm "lazy" in that same way and I always bring it up when I'm asked what my strengths are in interviews. I don't like doing unnecessary work. I will be the one automating tasks and finding more efficient ways to do things while other people are wasting their time doing it the long way, purely because I want to waste less time on it.

I had a teacher who said the same bullshit. But she also fucking sucked at her job. She taught typing and computer literacy but did not actually know how to use a computer and just hated every student that knew more than her.

I got the same insult as a child. I just thought "ah she's stupid" and moved on and never thought about it until I saw this post

Quick ≠ good

I suppose it could be a criticism of the quality of the work: i.e. you finish it quickly but it's half-arsed because you were too lazy to take the time to do it properly.

When I was a kid, I noticed that I was consistently finishing My work early, so I asked the teacher for the next lesson's work. I wanted to speed through the entire year's coursework and finish early so I could have an extended summer.

Teacher said no, but I got My wish in the end. I got to skip an entire year of school. Didn't get any more summer, though.

I had something similar in elementary school. There was an assignment given and something like 2 hours to do it. The reward was extra recess time. I saw the exercise knew I could do it quickly so I screwed around for about 1 hour and 50 minutes. The teacher saw this and commented on it. In the last 10 minutes I blasted out the assignment, handing it in when everyone else did. I received a passing grade on the assignment. The teacher stopped me anyway from getting the extra recess time because she didn't like that I spent so little time on the assignment even though I completed it sufficiently.

I stopped trusting teachers for years because of that and so no reason to put in full effort when arbitrarily applied rules would take away the rewards anyway. That didn't mean I didn't put effort into learning, it just didn't really care about scoring well or doing assignments. I'd do well on tests, but had low grades from simply not completing or not turning in homework. Occasionally I'd even do the homework if I was working on grasping the concept being taught, but I didn't see a point of even turning those in many times even though they were complete.

I did a pretty similar thing in school. I was playing a LOT of World of Warcraft and I was in raiding guilds with consistent and long raid times. So I'd go out of my way to get as much of my schoolwork done ahead of time as possible. I'd eat in class so I could work on my HW during lunch, I'd get like a week ahead on any work that I was able to such as reading textbook chapters. All so that I could make sure I never missed a raid night.

Unfortunately this kind of all fell apart in senior year of HS. WAAAAAAY too much work to ever keep up, so I had to stop playing.

I struggled at math as a young kid because I hated doing everything the long way and showing every step. I got a mental math book that taught how to do longer form multiplication in your head. I could multiply 2-3 digit numbers in my head and just tell you the answer.

My teacher made me do it on the board in front of everyone and swore I was cheating somehow because if she couldn't do it, a kid couldn't either.

I was also reading Michael Chriton books in the 4th grade, and teachers thought that I wasn't because kids don't read books like that.

School was kinda annoying with how it would punish you for being anywhere outside of normal. Even if it was positive.

Me not showing my work in math. Always getting the right answer, but not showing the tedious details.