Chris Meller

To kinda follow up on my last post about slowly making my way all the way around the internet, I also found in that same line of surfing this post about wasting time at work.

I quote you the last paragraph:

And how does your state perform? The laziest states in the poll Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Nevada, whereas the hardest working states included South Carolina, Rhode Island, Hawaii, West Virginia and North Carolina.

Wow… South Carolina is actually the hardest working state? I’m assuming this is only because there’s no kind of adjustment for industry composition. As they state earlier in the cited survey, industries vary greatly (Insurance is the worst at 2.5 hours wasted each day, while Shipping and Receiving is the best at only 1.7 hours wasted each day).

I guess I’m not doing that badly, considering Insurance is the #1 worst time waster (2.5 hours / day), and Software & Internet is the #5 worst time waster (2.2 hours / day). Since I work in the IT department of an Insurance-related business that writes all its own Software and has a quickly growing Internet-based business, I was pretty much screwed from the get-go… Ahh well…