Why don't USAers take siestas?

X-Runner wrote:

Do you really need 8 hours to get your work done?

Could you produce the same results with a 6 hour work day and a longer break?

To answer your questions: Yes, and No.

How many millions of people work in factories? How about retail? Transportation? Construction? Service industries? How about the many, many other careers where you must be present in order to get the job done. Not everyone has an office job.

Assuming you work, can you get your job done in 6 hours instead of 8? If yes, then you are admitting that you are ineffective and inefficient at your job. If yes, you should be ashamed, as well as fired.

Because USAers spend 4 hours a day driving to and from work.

If you have to cover a register or be available to service customers for a set period of time then you obviously can't do that in less time.

Other jobs you may be able to do in less time.

You mentioned factories and construction.

If you are tired, your productivity will slow down.

Let's say you build 50 widgets in a day where you are on the clock for 8 hours.

You may be able to still build 50 widgets in two blocks of 3 hour shifts with a good rest in between.

I don't see how being able to do an 8 hour job in 6 hours would make me inefficient.

Quite the opposite, I have seen people that had to work late often precisely because they were inefficient, not because they were harder workers.

Free Advice wrote:

X-Runner wrote:

Do you really need 8 hours to get your work done?

Could you produce the same results with a 6 hour work day and a longer break?

To answer your questions: Yes, and No.

How many millions of people work in factories? How about retail? Transportation? Construction? Service industries? How about the many, many other careers where you must be present in order to get the job done. Not everyone has an office job.

Assuming you work, can you get your job done in 6 hours instead of 8? If yes, then you are admitting that you are ineffective and inefficient at your job. If yes, you should be ashamed, as well as fired.

Says the guy posting during the workday...

Glass house afficianado wrote:

Free Advice wrote:

To answer your questions: Yes, and No.

How many millions of people work in factories? How about retail? Transportation? Construction? Service industries? How about the many, many other careers where you must be present in order to get the job done. Not everyone has an office job.

Assuming you work, can you get your job done in 6 hours instead of 8? If yes, then you are admitting that you are ineffective and inefficient at your job. If yes, you should be ashamed, as well as fired.

Says the guy posting during the workday...

I'm retired, I did my time.

Free Advice wrote:

I'm retired, I did my time.

Nice.

You can siesta whenever you want now without worrying about workplace politics.

X-Runner wrote:

If you have to cover a register or be available to service customers for a set period of time then you obviously can't do that in less time.

Other jobs you may be able to do in less time.

You mentioned factories and construction.

If you are tired, your productivity will slow down.

Let's say you build 50 widgets in a day where you are on the clock for 8 hours.

You may be able to still build 50 widgets in two blocks of 3 hour shifts with a good rest in between.

I don't see how being able to do an 8 hour job in 6 hours would make me inefficient.

Quite the opposite, I have seen people that had to work late often precisely because they were inefficient, not because they were harder workers.

Regarding your widget building example, many manufacturing facilities are automated where the widgets come to you, and you must keep up or the line stops. If the line is running 24 hours a day, do you hire three 8 hour workers or four 6 hour workers? (In today's work environment, they would probably hire the four 6 hour workers so they wouldn't have to pay for insurance benefits. )

As far as inefficient workers staying late to get their work done, that sounds more like a management problem. They either hired the wrong person, or are unable to manage the one they have.

speedeeee wrote:

USAers have things to stay awake and alert for, like guns and Trump's dumbarse remarks.

Another gay brit steps in. After they've already bend and spread for the zios and their commietools for a century. lol Or he's just another run of the mill hasbarat.

Why don't US people take siestas?

The owners don't want us to, thus coffee.

Better to take siestas, by far. Mind & body work better.

Siestas have done wonders for the Spanish economy. As much as I like the idea of austerity measures, I will stick to my coffee.

Things would be much better that way.

I used to take naps at lunch until I realized that getting enough sleep, eating healthy, and being active gives you enough energy during your waking hours.

Nothing wrong with a 20 minute power nap which is hardly disruptive.

We don't take siestas.....we take shits.

HardLoper wrote:

USA, Germany, NL = productive, organized countries

Italy, Spain, Greece = not so much

USA? Productive? Organized?

Hi HardLoper!

Kevin A Nelson wrote:

Nothing wrong with a 20 minute power nap which is hardly disruptive.

Exactly. "Siesta" sounds lazy and foreign, while "power nap" would make it popular. It's all in the terminology.

X-Runner wrote:

First off, I love the USAers label.

Mexico is in America, so they are Americans that take siestas.

But USAers do not.

The US companies are too rigid and too focused on hours worked vs actual productivity.

Instead of paying someone for the number of hours worked or paying a salary and saying they must work in the 8-5 time frame with one small break, they should be given tasks and paid to complete those tasks.

Then you can work whatever schedule you want, take siestas if you want if you complete the tasks.

Mexico is in North America, but you already know that's not what we're referring to. People like you aggravate me.

Also that work model only functions for companies employing people to conduct long term projects.

Dreif Bayh wrote:

Because USAers spend 4 hours a day driving to and from work.

That's when I take my best siestas.