Newsflash Irish are lazy!

brad maloney · Post by **brad maloney** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:33 am

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ ... 8844DB.htm

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:35 am

Yeah sure, give me an Al Jazeera link so i get another red flag in that FBI database...

brad maloney · Post by **brad maloney** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:50 am

"Q: Where do you get your news from?
A: I get my news from NPR & Aljazeera - I don't know what the #$@! is going on!!" - The Onion

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:56 am

I'm just too tired to click on the link...

mcfeeley · Post by **mcfeeley** » Fri May 21, 2004 8:59 am

glauber wrote:Yeah sure, give me an Al Jazeera link so i get another red flag in that FBI database...

I clicked on it, Homeland Security should be knocking on my door any minute now.

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.

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Fri May 21, 2004 9:36 am

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

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Fri May 21, 2004 9:48 am

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...

mcfeeley · Post by **mcfeeley** » Fri May 21, 2004 10:00 am

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

Yep -- here's the CNN URL:

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

brad maloney · Post by **brad maloney** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:01 am

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...

I think they're more honest.

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.

fluter_d · Post by **fluter_d** » Fri May 21, 2004 3:34 pm

I think that the fact that the poll was held on Monster.com (as far as I know) speaks volumes...

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Fri May 21, 2004 3:55 pm

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.

The study neglected to mention that it surveyed Irish SETI listeners and Dutch air traffic controllers...

Listening to SETI, noises from outer space?.... that would put you to sleep.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Fri May 21, 2004 4:47 pm

Al Jazeera and others wrote:Close to 40% of Irish participants said they had fallen asleep at work, usually at their desks

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.

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...

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:09 pm

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.

Readers may wish to note the numinous date included in the survey period.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:23 pm

Roger O'Keeffe wrote:
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.
Readers may wish to note the numinous date included in the survey period.

numinous \NOO-muh-nus\ adjective
*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?

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:26 pm

I think he means that it would be close to supernatural to complete a survey of 21 500 people across 14 countries in a couple weeks.