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factor in hobbies, family and a toddler then very busy.
But then it was the BBC!
We certainly work at a greater level of detail than we used to, and there are undoubtedly benefits of doing so. There are also the dis-benefits of doing stuff because someone else wants the data for analysis, or because someone believes that it allows work to be done with less skilled labour, or to provide evidence that you didn't do it incorrectly.
Are we busier? People always thought themselves to be busy. Are we more productive? Are we any happier?
Them i pop into another office like the supply chain and have to disturb them from Facebook to get something done, and always made to feel like I'm bothering them to do their job.
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In the olden days, a couple of guys (invariably) who knew and trusted each other would meet in a wine bar, have a chat, and make an agreement. Sometimes they'd even sign a piece of paper to confirm the agreement. But not always.
Today, there's a whole set of forms that have to be filled in first, then validated, reviewed and approved. When the forms are completed, only then can you arrange a meeting to decide who to meet. Which is everybody, because otherwise you might have excluded someone unfairly. So there's a whole load of time spent in meetings that everyone knows will be pointless, but have to be gone through so you can demonstrate that you've been completely fair. After the meetings, reports will be written, and confirmed by all attendees. A decision will (eventually) be made, written up with supporting evidence and documentation, reviewed, approved, and implemented.
And if you think all of that is bad enough, none of it happens in wine bars anymore.
some occupy as little as 10-20% of my capacity, some (rarely) 100% all the time
not always a correlation between pay and workload
tbh the worst ones are
Most days I barely get a lunch break....
Usually around 10am the shit hits the fan, when the deliveries arrive, so it's unpacking, booking in, booking out, putting stock away, answering the phone, sorting the van driver's route.
After that it calms down a bit, but I'm usually 99.97% busy.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Equally I have down time occasionally. I enjoy it when it comes. Allows me time gather my thoughts and catch up!