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American Workers: Lazy or Creative?
Nofsck Ingcloo writes "CNET News.com
is carrying an
article
by Ed Frauenheim in which he interviews Bill Coleman of
salary.com.
Coleman and company have conducted a
web based survey
regarding how workers spend their "non-productive" time at work. Here are some snippets from the CNET article.
" Click to read more.
"The average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per day, not counting lunch and scheduled break time."
"The extra unproductive time adds up to $759 billion annually in salaries for which companies get no apparent benefit."
"Work is invading our personal time and therefore it makes sense that personal activities are invading work time."
"Not all nonproductive time that an employee spends is a complete waste. Some of it is creative or constructive waste."
"[P]of the reason that this [survey] got such a good response was that it's an issue that people think about on some sort of regular basis."
"[O]ne of the reasons people gave for wasting time is they feel that they're not being paid appropriately for the work they're doing. And so it is sort of quid pro quo, in that an individual employee's ability to increase his or her pay is limited, but their ability to decrease the number of hours they actually work is not as limited."
Coleman is definitely on to something. I see this phenomenon, and this reasoning, all around me. How much of the reasoning is rational, and how much is rationalization?"
"The extra unproductive time adds up to $759 billion annually in salaries for which companies get no apparent benefit."
"Work is invading our personal time and therefore it makes sense that personal activities are invading work time."
"Not all nonproductive time that an employee spends is a complete waste. Some of it is creative or constructive waste."
"[P]of the reason that this [survey] got such a good response was that it's an issue that people think about on some sort of regular basis."
"[O]ne of the reasons people gave for wasting time is they feel that they're not being paid appropriately for the work they're doing. And so it is sort of quid pro quo, in that an individual employee's ability to increase his or her pay is limited, but their ability to decrease the number of hours they actually work is not as limited."
Coleman is definitely on to something. I see this phenomenon, and this reasoning, all around me. How much of the reasoning is rational, and how much is rationalization?"
The higher up the corporate chain the lazier Americans get. And no, surfing the web isn't any less productive than golfing. Why doesn't some American journalists bring that up. Oh maybe they're afraid to get fired.
Being worthless nigger trash in New Orleans must suck.. ..why not evacuate them back to africa?
Eh?
What was Bush doing while people drowned?
What was Bush doing while people starved?
What was Bush doing while people thirsted?
What was Bush doing while people were stranded?
What was Bush doing while the lucky few sat on an Interstand waiting for help and living in their own filth?
What was Bush doing while rape gangs and other criminals totally took over part of America?
How many days in a row was Bush doing this?
Same questions around this time several years back:
What was Bush doing while people burned?
What was Bush doing while people jumped from on top of a highrise to avoid burning?
What was Bush doing while people inhaled smoke?
What was Bush doing while buildings burned and crumbled?
What was Bush doing while our national airspace was totally compromised?
What was Bush doing when and after he was told the Nation was under attack?
One answer prevails through all the years and trials and crises:
N O T H I N G
Yet you morons still kept asking for him, you reap the seeds you sow. You voted for him, now deal with the problems he brings (and ignores) and enjoy your mud pies and shit sandwhiches washed down with muddy flood water and a side of bloody oil. Maybe next time, you will vote *smarter* and think about whom you are empowering.
Since I now live in USA, I celebrate 2 labor days, May 1st and this year, Sep 5th.
Typical for USA to create it's own labor day, I guess the international workers day is not good enough or too communistic for USC (United States of Corporations)...
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
Because of my knowledge, but I understand from your... shall we say... seemingly hateful response in few words, that you are lacking said skills.
You see, there are people outside USA that are just as smart if not smarter than you. Since you don't cut it, I understand your sour comment.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
"Because of my knowledge"
... shall we say..., feces hole you came from and make room for an immigrant who appreciates the privilege of moving to the United States.
I take it you knew that the United States is the best and most desirable country in which to live. It's the country to which much of the world's people would go if they could. Its one of the very few countries in the world that even allows immigration in significant numbers. We may have to build a wall to keep people out, but we'll never have to have one to keep people in.
I don't claim to be a smart person, but I can see a...shall we say... ungrateful guest when I smell one.
Since you find the United States distasteful, I'd suggest you rectify the mistake you made in coming here and go back to the,