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"People working 10 or 11 hours a day ... The finding, from an 11-year study of 6,000 British civil servants ..." From a study of what?!
by jdminhbg 17y ago
"People working 10 or 11 hours a day ... The finding, from an 11-year study of 6,000 British civil servants ..."
From a study of what?!
- ZeroGravitas 17y agocivil servant = government employee
- patio11 17y agoHe is probably making reference to the perception that, in the United States, civil servants work legendarily lax schedules, and have union rules where it would take a joint resolution of Congress, an amendment to the Constitution, and a burning bush on Mt. Sinai to get them to shave even a single minute off their second break. (I had a huge amount of culture shock a few weeks ago when I went to town hall in Japan to file some paperwork regarding my self employment. It required applying for insurance, switching social security systems, and getting paperwork ready for taxes. Being an American, I had naturally blocked off a day for this. I was whisked between four effective, courteous bureaucrats who got everything done in under twenty minutes.)