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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the save-the-nap dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Is the typical Spanish daily schedule about to change forever? For decades, campaigners in the country have complained that the average Spaniard's habit of keeping extremely late hours and taking delightfully long lunch breaks was making everyday life harder for citizens. This week, change could finally be on the way, as 110 professional bodies in Catalonia have signed up to a plan to change the region's daily timetable by 2025, shortening the classic three-hour lunch break so that employees can finish work earlier in the evening.

Such a change would radically reshape ordinary people's lives—and controversially, it could drive a wedge between Catalonia and the rest of Spain, where the national government supports similar changes (and has adopted a shorter break for public offices) but hasn't yet fixed a timetable for action.

You could call the plan an end to national harmony, a blessed release for hard-pressed workers, or an attack on the Spanish way of life. Whatever you do, however, don't call it the end of the siesta.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:50PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:50PM (#543468)

    Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. Uh, I use the side door. That way Lumbergh can't see me. And after that, I just sort of space out for about an hour. I just stare at my desk. But it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 23 2017, @10:14PM (5 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday July 23 2017, @10:14PM (#543502) Homepage

    I'm starting to see more and more fingerprint scanners for hourly scum here in America. Fingerprints are a lot harder to fake then getting another employee's badge and tapping them in even though they're out getting high or screwing the boss' wife.

    The siesta never made sense to me. Here in America we call that a "split shift" and is highly undesirable and usually gets an extra pay differential when done regularly. Hell, I'm kind of salty that we can't choose to waive our lunch breaks altogether and just go home early. For awhile long ago I would enter the lunch break in my timecard for legal reasons, but keep working through it and just leave a half-hour early -- but the boss caught on to it and started enforcing proper, legal lunch breaks.

    In America hourly scum working long hours can legally waive their mandated second lunch break, but they must take at least one 30 min. lunch break if they spend more than 6 hours working during a day.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @11:11PM (3 children)

      by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @11:11PM (#543515) Journal

      The key is running your own company or being a contractor. Or simple being well off to not rely on work. Human is the center of this problem.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @01:50AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @01:50AM (#543547)

        Human is the center of this problem

        When it comes to Ethanol-fueled that is a severe understatement.

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday July 24 2017, @02:12AM (1 child)

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday July 24 2017, @02:12AM (#543555)

        Or just being salaried. I've worked through lunch (or should I say, "worked" through lunch...) for many, many years, and left work after 8 hours, unless I was making up time or in a schedule crunch or something. When you're salaried, management doesn't usually pay that much attention to when you come and go exactly.

        • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday July 24 2017, @07:18AM

          by kaszz (4211) on Monday July 24 2017, @07:18AM (#543597) Journal

          I beg to differ on management. They definitely seem to care..
          Which again put emphasis on making sure that you rule your own workday.

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday July 24 2017, @11:50AM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday July 24 2017, @11:50AM (#543636) Journal

      Did you just get office spaced?