... it is just the reality that makes so many things much less efficient.
I don´t see here any lazy people (including me), but I see many people who are facing a lot of obsticles, that makes the work slower:D
For example weather - jajajaja this is the most typical excuse you can think, that means that you have never lived in the south of Spain. The days here are difficult, first you are waking up early because it is hot, the walk to the office makes you even more tired since it is really hot. When you enter the office with the nice cold air condition this is the moment you feel like sleeping. Asking why? Easy finally there are conditions to sleep and you haven´t done it for a while. After work there is a siesta - but acctually you cannot do anything else then put your body on the cauch or bed and drink water! This is usually the hotest part of the day. Thinking about opening your computer to work a bit? FORGET it if you don´t want to burn it! And the day is progressing and the person is more and more tired from not doing anything. And if you try you will realize soon it doens´t work:D
Weather, as obviously the most important, it is not the only obsticles that we face that stop us from working. With weather is easy it is hot, it is not possible to switch on the computer because will burn, and people cannot sleep due to the hot, so they are permamently tired. A bit more compicated are social obsticles. Social interactions takes quite a lot of time and this counts into the working time of course. Well it is not that bad as for example in Brasil when whenever you are entering the office you have to kiss everybody, in my case the short ¨hola¨ is enough. Talking about the social interaction I mean more that people like to talk, and especially ¨clients¨. So whenever someone is coming to the office to make the consultation, first this person needs to tell you everything about his/her life and only then you can kindly explained that s/he is in the wrong office:D It happens to me quite often, since a month ago office where I work now used to be the unemployment office. You can imagine the faces of the people who come and see me! A foreigner! Working as a public officer! (the last is not true but they don´t know).
So the social dimension! People (clients) come and talk a lot, but in the same time they expect the long responds, and they are getting it. Like today there was one guy who came to the office to ask about the employment possibilities. The easiest and time efficient way to deal with it would be to say ¨Sorry, we are Youth Department, employment office is across the hall¨. And I guess everyone would be happy, if not the need of social interactions. The guy managed to share his age, got to know that there used to be the employment desk for young peple under 30 (he was 40), and the details how it used to work. He got the well introduction of all the people who are working in the employment office, and after some 15 minutes we finally went there:D Believe me, here people doen´t like concrete answers. If you have to say NO, start first explaining what have you eatten in the morning, and comment something about the weathe; only then it will be socially acceptable to give this beautiful and simple answer Yes or No:D
I don´t see here any lazy people (including me), but I see many people who are facing a lot of obsticles, that makes the work slower:D
For example weather - jajajaja this is the most typical excuse you can think, that means that you have never lived in the south of Spain. The days here are difficult, first you are waking up early because it is hot, the walk to the office makes you even more tired since it is really hot. When you enter the office with the nice cold air condition this is the moment you feel like sleeping. Asking why? Easy finally there are conditions to sleep and you haven´t done it for a while. After work there is a siesta - but acctually you cannot do anything else then put your body on the cauch or bed and drink water! This is usually the hotest part of the day. Thinking about opening your computer to work a bit? FORGET it if you don´t want to burn it! And the day is progressing and the person is more and more tired from not doing anything. And if you try you will realize soon it doens´t work:D
Weather, as obviously the most important, it is not the only obsticles that we face that stop us from working. With weather is easy it is hot, it is not possible to switch on the computer because will burn, and people cannot sleep due to the hot, so they are permamently tired. A bit more compicated are social obsticles. Social interactions takes quite a lot of time and this counts into the working time of course. Well it is not that bad as for example in Brasil when whenever you are entering the office you have to kiss everybody, in my case the short ¨hola¨ is enough. Talking about the social interaction I mean more that people like to talk, and especially ¨clients¨. So whenever someone is coming to the office to make the consultation, first this person needs to tell you everything about his/her life and only then you can kindly explained that s/he is in the wrong office:D It happens to me quite often, since a month ago office where I work now used to be the unemployment office. You can imagine the faces of the people who come and see me! A foreigner! Working as a public officer! (the last is not true but they don´t know).
So the social dimension! People (clients) come and talk a lot, but in the same time they expect the long responds, and they are getting it. Like today there was one guy who came to the office to ask about the employment possibilities. The easiest and time efficient way to deal with it would be to say ¨Sorry, we are Youth Department, employment office is across the hall¨. And I guess everyone would be happy, if not the need of social interactions. The guy managed to share his age, got to know that there used to be the employment desk for young peple under 30 (he was 40), and the details how it used to work. He got the well introduction of all the people who are working in the employment office, and after some 15 minutes we finally went there:D Believe me, here people doen´t like concrete answers. If you have to say NO, start first explaining what have you eatten in the morning, and comment something about the weathe; only then it will be socially acceptable to give this beautiful and simple answer Yes or No:D
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Właśnie zorientowałam się, że Twój blog ma już dobrych parę lat :P A ja zaczytuję się już od dobrych kilku godzin! Sama szukam drogi do płatengo stażu w Ameryce Południowej - moje marzenie - i Aiesec wydaje się najlepszą drogą na ten kontynent... Chociaż na razie jestem załamana organizacją i szukam na własną rękę kontaktów! Podoba mi się Twoje podejście, które opisałaś w jednym z postów - Aiesec jest powolny to działam sama :)
Jezeli jest jakaś możliwość kontaktu z Tobą byłabym wdzięczna gdybyś pomogła mi w kilku kwestiach - obiecuję, że nie zaleję tysiącem pytań ;)
dzięki i pozdrawiam!
Magda
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