Boards.ie is costing the country a fortune in productivity loss!

BeeDI

I am amazed at the number, of wannabe economists and beard sympathisers who post on here in an incredible rate, during normal office hours
At whose cost is this I wonder?
Your own, guess if you are self employed!
If you are a PS or CS worker, I guess it's just one more cost you are imposing on the tax payers.
If you are employed in the private sector, you are costing your employer.

One way or another, this boards.ie, is costing the country, big time!!

Discuss :P

Sleepy

I'm working in the UK. Boards is my means of trying to keep us on a par with them

ei.sdraob

BeeDI wrote: »

If you are employed in the private sector, you are costing your employer.

ill pass on the message to the boss (me)

some of us dont get to work normal working hours and have to stay up late to work with people in other timezones

tho you are right boards.ie is one huge timesucker

changes

I only post during my breaks and i take my breaks at different times during the day depending on work demands

Scofflaw

AH, really.

moderately,
Scofflaw

phasers

I'm a college student still on my Christmas holidays so I can't be blamed for any of this.


And what should you be doing OP?

Essien

I'm a useless bastard tbh, with or without boards

Daemos

Maybe the hack was by the Irish government in an attempt to make people be more productive at work by stopping them from accessing the site...

ejmaztec

I work for myself and pretend that I'm working 24/7, so that I can charge huge fees to subsidise all of the time that I waste on here.

Dunjohn

I'm sure that, without boards.ie, there would be massive amounts of people being fired for watching porn at work.

So, in a way, this is a good thing.

sorrywhat

I have sh!t all to do in work at the moment. Boards is my only saving grace to get me through the day.

AnonoBoy

BeeDI wrote: »

I am amazed at the number, of wannabe economists and beard sympathisers who post on here in an incredible rate, during normal office hours
At whose cost is this I wonder?
Your own, guess if you are self employed!
If you are a PS or CS worker, I guess it's just one more cost you are imposing on the tax payers.
If you are employed in the private sector, you are costing your employer.

One way or another, this boards.ie, is costing the country, big time!!

Discuss :P

Get back to work deadbeat!

funk-you

My job requires large amounts of time sitting around waiting on something to break. WTF else am I gonna do?

Bloody guiltmongers are everywhere nowadays.

-Funk

ejmaztec

The only ones getting paid to spend all of their working time on here are feckin lazy journos with mental block.

ejmaztec

funk-you wrote: »

My job requires large amounts of time sitting around waiting on something to break. WTF else am I gonna do?

Bloody guiltmongers are everywhere nowadays.

-Funk

Can't you break something youself, just to pass the time?

seamus

Productivity is relative.

For people in jobs which all or mostly involve using computers, productivity can hinge on simple things such as typing speed and keyboard shortcuts.

For example, I have seen people take five minutes to perform a task which should only take less than a minute - e.g. pasting figures into a spreadsheet, sorting it, saving it and emailing it with some short text. That's a 60-second task, but it will take most people upwards of 5 minutes to do.

It sounds completely ridiculous when you say it, but consider even the humble copy-and-paste;
Two people work in a job which involves copying a value from one screen, going to another screen and pasting it in.

Person A, selects all the text with the mouse, and uses the menus to copy it, then clicks on the taskbar, clicks in the other field and then uses the menu to pastein the value, then clicks on the first application again in the taskbar.

Person B, double-clicks on the text to select it, Ctrl+C's it, Alt+Tab to the other screen, click on the field, Ctrl+V, Alt+Tab back.

So Person B is a minimum 3 times faster than person A, for no reason other than they know their way around a computer. For a one-day course in computing, the company could triple person A's productivity!

It's a stupidly simple example, but it's simple things like this which cost massive amounts of productivity across the economy where the people work primarily on a computer.

friendface

funk-you wrote: »

My job requires large amounts of time sitting around waiting on something to break. WTF else am I gonna do?


-Funk

Humpty Dumpty's personal bodyguard?

G_R

Im on a break god dammit.

/looks over shoulder for boss... Alt+Tab's back to the Database I should be working on

Elmo

BeeDI wrote: »

If you are a PS or CS worker, I guess it's just one more cost you are imposing on the tax payers.

When I worked in a Government department almost all websites were inaccessible. (bar RTÉ, BBC and websites controlled by the Dept. and the Government). Not the case in all depts.

Buford T Justice

BeeDI wrote: »

I am amazed at the number, of wannabe economists and beard sympathisers who post on here in an incredible rate, during normal office hours
At whose cost is this I wonder?
Your own, guess if you are self employed!
If you are a PS or CS worker, I guess it's just one more cost you are imposing on the tax payers.
If you are employed in the private sector, you are costing your employer.

One way or another, this boards.ie, is costing the country, big time!!

Discuss :P

You dont like it... GTFO

I also note the time that you posted that comment..... During working hours wasn't it?

CrazyRabbit

During work hours I outsource all my Boards.ie posting to a guy in India.

I'm not happy though. His grammar and spelling is terrible and he has this unending fascination with Slumdog Millionaire.

Jesus Wept

phasers wrote: »

I'm a college student still on my Christmas holidays so I can't be blamed for any of this.


And what should you be doing OP?

In Feb?
Nice.

BeeDI

Fingers McGee wrote: »

You dont like it... GTFO

I also note the time that you posted that comment..... During working hours wasn't it?

Eh, no as it happens:) Having a day off today, to go to parent teacher meeting, caus the beards acting the tool:eek:

dr.fuzzenstein

You can always claw back some productivity through other means...

badgers_arse.jpg

G-Money

Saving the country a fortune in psychiatric sessions etc. Look at all the stuff we can get off our chests on here that we'd just have to keep bottled up otherwise.

dave 27

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

You can always claw back some productivity through other means...

badgers_arse.jpg

eh..




anyway at least they have jobs!

phasers

The-Rigger wrote: »

In Feb?
Nice.

I know rite?

back on Monday though, but then I'm off for the Summer at the end of April

College life is sweet.

EvilMonkey

seamus wrote: »

Productivity is relative.

For people in jobs which all or mostly involve using computers, productivity can hinge on simple things such as typing speed and keyboard shortcuts.

For example, I have seen people take five minutes to perform a task which should only take less than a minute - e.g. pasting figures into a spreadsheet, sorting it, saving it and emailing it with some short text. That's a 60-second task, but it will take most people upwards of 5 minutes to do.

It sounds completely ridiculous when you say it, but consider even the humble copy-and-paste;
Two people work in a job which involves copying a value from one screen, going to another screen and pasting it in.

Person A, selects all the text with the mouse, and uses the menus to copy it, then clicks on the taskbar, clicks in the other field and then uses the menu to pastein the value, then clicks on the first application again in the taskbar.

Person B, double-clicks on the text to select it, Ctrl+C's it, Alt+Tab to the other screen, click on the field, Ctrl+V, Alt+Tab back.

So Person B is a minimum 3 times faster than person A, for no reason other than they know their way around a computer. For a one-day course in computing, the company could triple person A's productivity!

It's a stupidly simple example, but it's simple things like this which cost massive amounts of productivity across the economy where the people work primarily on a computer.

Person B ends up with 2 weeks sick leave with RSI and all productivity goes out the window.

entropi

OP, you clearly should not have bothered making this thread, now some of the daily rags will actually have a story to print...all in the attempted shaming of Boards.ie...

Said lazy journos from a previous post above...get off your collective asses and stop trawling the web for something interesting (although thet being said, there's alot more interesting stuff on here than they could ever get by themselves)

Jesus Wept

phasers wrote: »

I know rite?

back on Monday though, but then I'm off for the Summer at the end of April

College life is sweet.

Maybe College could be for me.
Sick course.

Pdfile

DaPoolRulz wrote: »

Maybe the hack was by the Irish government in an attempt to make people be more productive at work by stopping them from accessing the site...

i thought Terry got naked again and crashed the server...


Only in my dreams...

Tar.Aldarion

I used it a fair bit in work, just when I was waiting for more work! Now that I'm back in college it's all about the boards

dr.fuzzenstein

Just set the laser printer to stun and zap the boss, that'll buy you 10-15 minutes.

blueberri

phasers wrote: »

I'm a college student still on my Christmas holidays so I can't be blamed for any of this.


And what should you be doing OP?

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Still on xmas holidays and it is the first week of Feb?

Bull**** artist here la!:eek: