There’s something to be said for a good solid break.
In the US, we’d have one guy who never stops using the jackhammer, two overseeing, one holding a “workers ahead” sign, and a cop playing with his phone.
In the US, we’d have one guy who never stops using the jackhammer, two overseeing, one holding a “workers ahead” sign, and a cop playing with his phone.
I mean, I'm all for people being allowed to work at a comfortable pace, spurts of activity in between breaks or a constant medium level of activity, whatever works for that individual.
But damn do I see construction as a particularly lazy industry a lot of the time; especially after moving to the UK, they used to build things so well and so quickly here and now look: nobody wants new build houses because of the shitty construction, crossrail took HOW long and HOW much to build?
It's hard to get good estimates of how long any individual task will take, but you don't want to be in a situation where work could be getting done, but isn't because the necessary workers aren't there, so it's more efficient to pay for workers to be present and ready to begin as soon as their unblocked, versus having to wait for those workers to show up once their blockers are cleared.
Also the general public has more opinions about the behavior of governments employees.
I dunno how to actually feel about this, from a “is it good” point of view. But I can see why people feel this way at least.
If you're a cop and you're on duty in a nyc subway station, your eyes should be on the people around you, not your screen.