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Two points: 1) Much of the repairs were done to the lift shafts, which judging from the story seems outside the time anomalies zone of influence. 2) If a worke
by 4ndr3vv 9y ago
Two points:
1) Much of the repairs were done to the lift shafts, which judging from the story seems outside the time anomalies zone of influence.
2) If a worker in the tunnel completed a day's work instantly, the worker would have still completed a days work and would need to go home and rest.
You could, in theory, have a rolling start time, so the worker has 15 hours rest and then is required to come into work again. Unfortunately, legislation doesn't really account for time anomalies and so this would likely fall foul of Union and EU standards.
- fragmede 9y agoHire different/more workers? Setting aside the implausibility of such a secret remaining a secret (none of the workers had a boffin brother or cousin to show?), and never mind the implications for physics, with the right incentives, foreman could hire additional workers, finish the job faster, get paid for that job, and move onto the next job while looking like they're exceptionally good at things rather than ending up over-budget and behind schedule, as is expected for publics works projects. And all without coming up against per-worker Union/EU standards.
- Bartweiss 9y agoI suppose we have two hurdles. One is getting the outside-tunnel work done - redoing the lifts, trucking in more tiles, and so on. That's happening at real-world time, so it's going to be a bottleneck. The other is getting approval for what looks like a blatantly dishonest hiring scheme. Sure, the foreman knows he can get 80 hours of work done in that tunnel every day, but a request to hire that much staff looks like pure make-work from the outside.
- Bartweiss 9y agoThe story does point out that they were doing a "full day of work", then going home even if it was still morning. So there doesn't seem to have been any personal benefit from the time dilation - the crew still put in 8 hours of work per person per day. Sending a guy across the tunnel to deliver some tool still costs the same amount of his workday, but it'd be instant for the people on the outside, which would save a bit of time. On the other hand dealing with the weirdness and scheduling around it might well eat up any time gained. Now if they'd convinced the head office about the weirdness, I suppose they could have dispatched another dozen crews and gotten 80 hours of work done each day - at least in the tunnel.