with Our Personal Time
| |
|
|
|
|||
| |
|
|
|
|||
|
|
||||||
|
|
Time Bandits page 1 of 5 | |||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
How Work Sneaks Away with Our Personal Time |
|
Jennifer Vogel & Robin Marks | |||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
It's a summer Saturday and a parade is passing by. Two girls wave to get
the
attention of a clown as their father, missing out on the scene, barks
into
his cell phone "I told them I planned to stock their high profile line.
See
if you can get it at a discount and then let's have a meeting Monday to
go
over it."
At 4:00 on a Wednesday afternoon, a woman hits the McDonald's drive-through for the day's only meal, to be eaten in transit. When she gets to the pickup window, she's talking to a client on one cell phone and a co-worker on the other, with no hand free to grab the waiting Big Mac and fries. A recent evening at an Internet publishing company finds desks occupied by a horde of workers pounding away at keyboards long after banking hours. "Salaried associates should clearly understand that they will frequently work extended hours to help the company succeed," reads the employee manual. "You can work long, hard, or smart, but you cannot choose two out three." What the Hell is going on here? Are these people so in love with their work that they'll give up valuable free time to finish that last report? Welcome to a new work ethic, one where slaving long hours is a point of pride and vacations are for wimps. It used to be that the army did more by 6 am than the rest of us did all day. Now the schedules of employer boot camps are leaving the military in the dust. |
|||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
 |
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
Web Lab |
|||||||||||||
