By: John Harmer

John Harmer — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:30:50 +0000

I was going to disagree with the premise of the article, and comment that the Internet is a time waster. Then I thought, no, I agree with Mr Crum. But not because of the reasons noted in the article. Hardly. Mr Crum cetainly has a wheelbarrow to push here. His work position necessitates that. So one can discount much of what he says. While I agree that it is people who waste time, I think it is systems that allow that to happen. Comment is made about how people moan that such things as dress standards might alter work habits. I don’t know about that. Yet I will comment (albeit with tongue in cheek) that I might have been less interested in wasting time looking at young women who wore the old fashioned 1960′s version of a bank officer’s uniform than I might be looking at the current version. Isn’t that change in dress code part of the system? And let’s not forget the modern smoking prohibitions. We can no longer smoke indoors. But think about the lost man hours when smokers absent themselves from working on a regular basis in order to try and kill themselves (says a reformed smoker) So maybe if the system did not have the distraction of the Social Media more work might be the result. Whatever. The system these days is to maximise pleasure time, not work, anyway. We need to get used to that.

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