Multitask or Unitask?

[Flint]

When I first started my current job, by boss at that time (actually, coincedentally a friend of mine) asked me if I could do many things at once. I said "Of course, I'm a drummer."

But seriously, I define my tasks as Active, Pending, and Resolved. Active tasks can go in order of priority, but Pending tasks can't go anywhere until something else beyond my control happens. I suppose I could sit at my desk and do nothing until that thing happens, but that doesn't seem efficient to me.

I don't think there is really such a thing as Uni-Tasking, except in cases where someone was being very lazy and careless towards their job, taking the attitude of doing one simple thing at a time, regardless of whether this achieves anything other than killing time until they can clock out.