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Because maybe workers who have certain freedoms, respect and ways to blow off steam, take breaks, and utilize down time (I have a lot of it, but I have to be on call at my desk) are ultimately happier, possibly at least as productive, and less likely to leave? exactly

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Well, where I work the management are inefficient, and don't really know how the company (in terms of the staff) work with one another and get things done. Projects are sat on for days and then presented with confusing briefs and impossible deadlines, and decisions are not left to the people employed to make those decisions, instead the same directors change things to their own personal view every time. Some days you might sit around for hours doing nothing and then a director comes in 5 minutes before close and says they need something doing urgently (it's always urgent) so you have to stay over an hour or two (unpaid) to do it. I work long hours, some months it's non-stop 'doing' - other times there's a lot of sitting about - but either way I'm at work, not with my family or anywhere I'd want to be and any inactivity is largely due to a lack of communication company-wide. The people I work with are great, so there are definite plus-sides but these have nothing to do with what the directors have put in place. If you do good for a sustained period you get a 'management' role which is impotent and just a title. I'm sure some employees do 'screw around' but so do some managers - even if that just means a two-hour lunch break or unecessarily long schmoozy phone calls

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for liner notes I prefer my hyperbole ragged right

yes - and the 'err' that I mentioned for East Yorkshire isn't a hesitation - it's how they say the letter O (but without pronouncing the 'r's as Bill mentioned before) - so in a telephone number 'err err' is zero zero (assuming everybody else also says O in place of 0?) My worst crime in pronunciation, and one I had to iron out when I moved up north was dropping of the 'l' at the end of a word. So I would say something like 'ge-ow' for 'girl'. Living in Hull I was saying 'u-ow' for 'Hull' so had to adapt. Dropping the H is common in Essex and round here - but much more pronounced here, I see all the time people even writing words without the H - like 'as' for 'has' 'Saafend-on-sea' is the Essex/London way of saying it - a flat drawn out 'aaa' sound instead of an 'ow' sound First time I encountered a proper North-East accent - a lad from Consett - I thought it was Dutch or German!

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Sometimes my boss mispronounces 'you' as 'I' or 'we'... as in: "We need to get such-and-such done" or more usually "I need to action such-and-such" before getting me to do it

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Well I went to look up enervated in the dictionary and I'm stunned!! same with 'eck-cetera'

Having lived half my life in Essex and half in West Yorkshire pronunciation is a big thing - my kids have yorkshire accents of course but mine is still, after 20 years, what people round here think of as cockney - the true Essex accent has a nice country twang but mine is very much Saafend-On-Sea if I'm not careful... the advantage with the southern accent has always been that it's pretty to slip into RP if necessary, a near impossible feat for my Huddersfield colleagues re. East Yorkshire - that 'err' sound I had trouble with as a student in Hull, phoning directory enquiries the lady was telling me the number - 'err.. err' until she got annoyed with my confusion and said firmly "ZE-RERR" (0)

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