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According to a recent domestic survey, average Yugoslavs work efficiently for only half of their eight-hour workday. The rest of the time is spent reading newsp
by edw519 13y ago
According to a recent domestic survey, average Yugoslavs work efficiently for only half of their eight-hour workday. The rest of the time is spent reading newspapers, conducting private business or having interminable private chats with colleagues over coffee.
According to a recent domestic survey, average I.T. managers work efficiently for only 10% of their eight-hour workday. The rest of the time is spent reading email, conducting pointless meetings, or having interminable private chats with colleagues over "best practices".
- dasil003 13y agoYes, but how do define efficient work for an "I.T. manager"?
- weland 13y agoShush, don't divulge their secret!
- kamaal 13y agoThat's a mystery. I've heard this 'Every body has a job to do' thing many times when I ask managers what they do. But they never tell 'what exactly are they doing or they are supposed to do'.
- jakejake 13y agoThe funny thing about IT managers is that when you have a decent one, you may be tempted to ask "what exactly do they do all day?" But when you have a bad one, the whole place just goes to shit.
- danso 13y agoI was just thinking, it's been a loooooong time since I've had a job that required eight straight hours of on-task work...the only jobs that fit the bill were in high school, working for a deli counter and as a roofer. Since then, it's been office jobs that were more like 6 hours of work, 4 hours of idleness/thinking time.
- stephengillie 13y agoAre you "paid to be pingable"?
- skylan_q 13y agoSome disclosure: I've been born and raised in Canada and my parents are immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. I've taken many extended trips back home and I have to say that "working efficiently for only half of their eight-hour workday" is overstating their efficiency. Socialism destroyed work ethic in Yugoslavia amongst other things. The villagers and farmers were the only ones who had any work ethic left as they were primarily subsistence farmers on the "receiving end" of socialism if you will. They were the ones who left to work and settle in other countries. People with money aren't viewed as investors, but crooks. Anyone who turns a profit is suspected of stealing. Almost no one understands the concept of looking for work or creating their own job. It's sad.
- Vivtek 13y agoWell, to be fair, anywhere the Habsburgs ruled is like this because that's the way their empire worked. You could only get rich by exploiting others or engaging in corruption - or be born into it because your ancestors did that.
- jvm 13y ago> anywhere the Hapsburgs ruled ... which is why Austria and the Netherlands are so poor and backwards??
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- flexie 13y agoNah. Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Northern Spain, Northern Italy. Those are really wealthy and quite efficient places. And most of those have been so for decades if not centuries. If the EU consisted of just those places it would probably be as productive per capita as California.
- jotm 13y agoI think it was the communism - it was a really bad economic system that was so out of touch with the reality of human beings and the past thousand years that people had no other choice but to engage in corruption (bypassing the system).
- ams6110 13y agoWhy pick on IT managers? When I read that sentence I immediately thought "that describes almost every American "office" employee I've ever seen or worked with." By and large most people see work as a means to enable a lifestyle, not something they do for its own sake. Therefore they do the minimum that they can get away with.