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Lunch is what's wrong with America
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<blockquote data-quote="patooyee" data-source="post: 276235" data-attributes="member: 483"><p>How is America productive at all? I run a business and as such I am there when I need to be, do what I need to do when it needs to be done. I am lucky to get a lunch break at all and if I do its never before 3pm. I have to deal with companies that have employees that have no sense of ownership at all though and have found the weekly work cycle at these companies to be absolutely pitiful.</p><p></p><p>In general many companies open around 9am. But important people don't get there until 9:15 or 9:30 and much of the time the underlings can't do anything without the important ones there. So REAL WORK doesn't truly start at these companies until about 9:30. But then comes LUNCH at noon. Lunch is supposed to be an hour but people start leaving early around 11:30 and often don't get back until 1:00 or 1:30. So right off the bat during any given work day many companies see a max of 2 productive hours before work stops completely. I question how productive those two hours really are since many employees are just counting down the minutes until lunch.</p><p></p><p>So around 1:30 people are back from lunch and work can begin again. But they get off around 5:00, so you're now down to only about 3.5 hours of possible productivity. So on your BEST day, you've got about 5.5 hours of possible productive time at many companies.</p><p></p><p>BUT, consider the effect of weekends. Mon. everyone comes back dragging ass from the weekend. No one wants to do **** Mon. so productivity is at an all-time low. Tues. and Wed. are probably fairly productive but by Thurs. people are starting to worry less about work and more about their weekend plans. By Fri. all the important people have taken off for the 3-day weekends and none of the underlings can do **** without the important people. Even if they could, they're leaving early since the bosses aren't around to say they can't. Fri. is basically a complete waste.</p><p></p><p>So out of the week you really only get 2 days of productive work! That's 11 hours of the week where things are getting done and 29 where basically NOTHING gets done.</p><p></p><p>People in China work in sweatshops for half a penny an hour, Mexicans risk death, break laws to work for less than min wage in America. Most work without breaks for as many hours/day that they can get paid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="patooyee, post: 276235, member: 483"] How is America productive at all? I run a business and as such I am there when I need to be, do what I need to do when it needs to be done. I am lucky to get a lunch break at all and if I do its never before 3pm. I have to deal with companies that have employees that have no sense of ownership at all though and have found the weekly work cycle at these companies to be absolutely pitiful. In general many companies open around 9am. But important people don't get there until 9:15 or 9:30 and much of the time the underlings can't do anything without the important ones there. So REAL WORK doesn't truly start at these companies until about 9:30. But then comes LUNCH at noon. Lunch is supposed to be an hour but people start leaving early around 11:30 and often don't get back until 1:00 or 1:30. So right off the bat during any given work day many companies see a max of 2 productive hours before work stops completely. I question how productive those two hours really are since many employees are just counting down the minutes until lunch. So around 1:30 people are back from lunch and work can begin again. But they get off around 5:00, so you're now down to only about 3.5 hours of possible productivity. So on your BEST day, you've got about 5.5 hours of possible productive time at many companies. BUT, consider the effect of weekends. Mon. everyone comes back dragging ass from the weekend. No one wants to do **** Mon. so productivity is at an all-time low. Tues. and Wed. are probably fairly productive but by Thurs. people are starting to worry less about work and more about their weekend plans. By Fri. all the important people have taken off for the 3-day weekends and none of the underlings can do **** without the important people. Even if they could, they're leaving early since the bosses aren't around to say they can't. Fri. is basically a complete waste. So out of the week you really only get 2 days of productive work! That's 11 hours of the week where things are getting done and 29 where basically NOTHING gets done. People in China work in sweatshops for half a penny an hour, Mexicans risk death, break laws to work for less than min wage in America. Most work without breaks for as many hours/day that they can get paid. [/QUOTE]
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