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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Typical time management programs are asking you to make do with limited control, when the only solution is total control. These programs are asking you to find freedom within a prison.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Letting go of the clock can also be difficult because we’ve traditionally used time to measure fairness.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
By the time you’ve been in the workforce for three of four years you are, if anything, a black belt in making excuses.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
…the status quo makes us masters of the white lie. But there is something deeper going on here, something that gets back to the idea that your job owns your time.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
If your job owns your time, then it is doing more than dictating how to use your time.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Socially acceptable excuses are the truths about our time that in a traditional work environment we dare not utter.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Here is one of the ironies of the workplace: We put so much emphasis on time and yet we don’t have a very good handle on how long things actually take.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
…many managers would rather have their employees in the building during traditional working hours doing nothing than out of their sight and being productive for their own lives.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
…the rules of work have more to do with enforcing how work looks than actually getting work done.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
As long as the goals and expectations are clear, people realize that is we take care of our customers then we have time for ourselves.
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