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A Study On Time Wasted At Work
Animesh Pathak writes "C|Net News has an article about a survey of people's goofing off habits at work. From the article: 'It's interesting to note that the Internet was cited as the leading time-wasting activity. It goes to show how integrated it has become to the daily functions of our personal and professional lives,...Today, there are so many useful tools and Web sites on the Internet that have enabled people to become more efficient with accomplishing multiple tasks in a shorter amount of time.'"
You're assuming it only takes 45 minutes. In which case, the job is probably unnecessary. Which it was, which is why she was fired. He was write in having the attitude he had. You don't pay people to play solitaire. If she's there to do the accounting, she should be doing the accounting, not playing games. If she's done the accounting, she should ask for some more work, not sit there playing games.