Are You a Git R Dun or a Wally?

“Git er done.” It’s a redneck saying that’s been around for a long time, at least since the 50s, and it just means whatever you have to do, go do it.

Larry the Cable Guy popularized it. He said, “whatever you gotta do, don’t bitch about it, don’t complain about it, give 110 percent, just git er done.” And do it on time. Take pride in your work—“not because your customer or your boss or your peers will judge you if you don’t, but because that’s the standard you hold yourself to.”

The alternative is Dilbert’s Wally. He does almost no work and revels in the fact that he gets paid and gets away with it (“My philosophy is that anything worth doing is too hard”).

He appears to work while doing nothing. Wally is asked about his purpose in life and he replies, “My purpose is to transport huge quantities of coffee from the coffee maker to a urinal.”

Read the full piece on my Substack here.