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  • I live not that far away from a (now decommissioned) nuclear power station, and from what I keep hearing from old people who lived through the time of its construction, there was a lot of lenience and looking the other way involved. For instance, (A very persistent) Rumor has it, that many houses built in the nearest town around that time, had their foundation, cellar walls, and floors poured with the heavy radiation proof concrete intended for the power station, because quite a number of the concrete trucks destined for the containment building (which is made of an awful lot of concrete) did conveniently take the wrong turn and ended up at the wrong construction site for some odd reason. (Maybe the drivers getting a case of beer for every detour they took might have been a factor)














    1. increasing work hours is a one-time “boost”. It gives a numbers bump once. It’s not continued growth.
    2. working LESS has been shown time and time again to actually make workers more productive

    As you said, you can’t measure productivity by simply counting the hours worked. Resorting to such crude metrics is a sign of incompetent management done by people who have no idea whatsoever how to determine the result of the work they are supposed to be organising. I’d say it’s a symptom of a managerial caste that has only learned to cosplay as hard working by doing meaningless bullshit work for 60 hours a week, but whose only actual competence even remotely related to productive work consists of reading the clock.