On Point On Slacking

Wellington Grey writes "This week the NPR show On Point has an excellent episode exploring slacking and the American work ethic. (note that it's audio) It touches on some issues that may be of interest to geeks such as outsourcing, the church of the subgenius and the eternal conflict between wanting to be a lazy bum and wanting to work hard. What do slashdotters think: does America need more slack or more work?" It is summer vacation after all, right?

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lack of good tech jobs

[a_greer2005]

It isnt work ethic, it is enviornment in the IT sector, IT is the whipping bys of every dept in the orginization, we are told to enforce security policy then bitched at by those who issued the order while we carry it out, we are on call all the time, we are somehow responsable for every userland mistake, spam, popups...it all falls to us. The users f**k things up, the IT guys give up their weekends to fix it.