The ineffiency of office workers ..
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The title brings to mind so many possible tangents to me, but the one i'd like to follow is narrow and mostly cranky, with a touch of sugar at the end. I'll keep it brief too, cause this crap is taking me away from my special coruba time.
So western office workers have such an easy time of it, their stress levels are only magnified by their nativity towards the realities of real life. So something being bad for them compared to their fellow citizens on the shop floor is only marginally equitable in if one considers their ability to speak in hyperbole. After all they really haven't the same high frequency customer interaction stress, nor the ever-present ability by company hierarchy to scan their basic performance metrics. There is no 'unit in, unit out', for these profligate time wasters.
So their tasks aren't really quantifiable in the way a basic labour unit staff members is. Of course the negative aspects of their inefficiency is mitigated by their proximity to the power structure within the company. They can play the office politics game, and further for a localized manager, he himself has a tendency towards wastage via increased office hiring immediately under him, just to lower his actual workload, and as a way to shower favours.
But i am arguing that the nature of the basic office worker unit, allows for a lot of inefficiency within the business structure far beyond that initially glimpsed when viewing their quarterly report or HR reviewing their job description. As much of their day behind a terminal no matter how you police it, is unaccounted for time wasting on facebook and what have you. And even before the net revolution these innate wasters found a way to get a free ride on the shareholders time. And it wasn't in the sense that there would perhaps be some global benefit for the company in allowing these 'deep thinkers' space to breath. It was more like giving criminals an angle which they can then exploit. Allowing people who are doing next to zero for the company, nay even perhaps whom are actually helping to reverse any stated long term corporate goals, to thrive like an unwanted parasite within the organisation.
So we have a society filled with fucking time wasting losers who are living off the back of the actual front of house workers. But then perhaps from the perspective of the economy as a whole, we should ask, given the current structure of things. Is this a bad thing ??
These people, no matter how useless, are still spending the capital that they accrue, on coffees and long beer laden lunches, and expensive apartments. And we are employing an whole sub-sector of the human race that would otherwise be left abandoned and derelict, given their lack of actual talent at anything other than simian social climbing.
So i suggest that despite my misgivings, that my point is moot.
-- go pee nao ---
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