Newsflash Irish are lazy!
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Newsflash Irish are lazy!
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Yeah sure, give me an Al Jazeera link so i get another red flag in that FBI database...
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I clicked on it, Homeland Security should be knocking on my door any minute now.glauber wrote:Yeah sure, give me an Al Jazeera link so i get another red flag in that FBI database...
Come to think of it, with Dale taking the political lead here, any one of us that hang out on C & F have been profiled by now.
Here's the Al Jazeera article:
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Survey catches Irish napping
Tuesday 18 May 2004, 6:15 Makka Time, 3:15 GMT
The Irish are the most likely to fall asleep in unlikely places
One in four Europeans are found to fall asleep in the workplace, with the Irish mostly likely to crash out on their desktops.
But according to the survey released on Monday, the Dutch are able to stifle their yawns best.
Internet jobs site Jobline organised the poll which showed 24% of respondents had fallen asleep either at their desk, in a meeting or in the toilet.
About 39% said they had not fallen asleep at work, but had to make an effort to stay awake.
"Long workdays, routine tasks, meetings that drag on, and staring into the monitor are prompting workers around Europe to fall asleep at their workplace," one of the survey's co-authors said.
Close to 40% of Irish participants said they had fallen asleep at work, usually at their desks, while 80% of Dutch respondents said they had never slept at the office.
The poll was carried out between 29 March and 13 April, and received responses from nearly 21,500 people in 14 European countries.
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Yep -- here's the CNN URL:Steven wrote:Actually, this story came off the newswires and can also be found (almost verbatim) at several other sources. I think I saw it at CNN.com or ABC.com or some such site.
Steven
http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/17/news/fu ... t/?cnn=yes
A related topic at Irish Jobs is "The Art of Napping at Work"
http://www.irishjobs.ie/advice/ArtofNapping.html
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I think they're more honest.Montana wrote:So do the Irish actually fall asleep more or are they just more honest?
The study neglected to mention that it surveyed Irish SETI listeners and Dutch air traffic controllers...
It reminds me of those teen drug-use stats, what teenager is going to 'fess up to that? Maybe the ones who are into shock value - but I think that's about it.
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What they probably fail to mention that the Irish are proably holding two jobs to make ends meet and are crashing at work out of exhaustion.
Listening to SETI, noises from outer space?.... that would put you to sleep.The study neglected to mention that it surveyed Irish SETI listeners and Dutch air traffic controllers...
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So where's the problem? Anyone who falls asleep at a desk is most likely working in an office. If one works in an office falling asleep is probably the most useful thing one can do. I work in an office. I occasionally come close to dozing off.Al Jazeera and others wrote:Close to 40% of Irish participants said they had fallen asleep at work, usually at their desks
The difference between me and an Irish person? The Irish person has the good judgement to go for the full-on nap.
It's the people who stay awake in offices who cause all our red-tape nightmares...
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numinous \NOO-muh-nus\ adjectiveRoger O'Keeffe wrote:Readers may wish to note the numinous date included in the survey period.mcfeeley wrote:
The poll was carried out between 29 March and 13 April, and received responses from nearly 21,500 people in 14 European countries.
*1 : supernatural, mysterious
2 : filled with a sense of the presence of divinity : holy
OK, Roger, I give up. Where's the supernatural date here? Or is it "holy" to which you are referring?
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