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?

Comments

How about some slack music?

[sticks_us]

These guys are TOTALLY slack, they have another website, but I can't find anything other than the myspace shiz. I believe one of them, at least, used to be a computer programmer before he burned out, quit, and joined this band/slack-evangelism outfit:

http://www.myspace.com/slackestra

Hmphhh

[kaizenfury7]

i only red the headline so far, but i dun buleev the slacking problem is as bad as the artikul probablee made it out to be. For in stanz, we have leejuns of Slashdotters who RTFA, can solidate their analisus, parse it 4 falibiliteez and inkunsistenseez, and present it to their fellow geeks in a properly notated and cited fashun, thus giving rise to thawt full n rashunul die a log. 4 the most part, peepul take the time to

Re:From a Canadian Perspective...

[dfjghsk]

the chart says:

Manufacturing, 15 countries or areas, 2003-2004
Percent change

So, italians had a 0.6 percent drop in output per hour compared to the previous year.

Re:The Myth of the 80 Hour Week

[dfjghsk]

there should be a "-1 spoiled sob" mod option