Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...accusation that Bush let Enron plunder California to bring down Gray Davis seems controversial for controversy’s sake, particularly in light of the slim evidence used for proof. Many scenes smack of afterthought, as if the filmmakers realized they needed to liven up some of the more tedious stretches with political controversy, random shots of Ahnold...
...film focuses on the tedious lives of four 20-something coworkers at a nameless Canadian firm where signs like “Don’t make excuses, provide improvements” adorn the walls and cow workers into conformity...
...result was a series of groundbreaking new work rules to enhance morale and productivity at Saturn. Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people. Each team would be responsible for large sections of the car, and its members would have the latitude to reach a consensus on how to divide up and rotate job assignments. Most important, production workers would receive a salary instead of an hourly wage as they...
...hysteria. The comments about aptitude in particular lingered, like food poisoning, long after the conference ended. For weeks, pundits and professors spouted outrage and praise, all of which added up to very little. Then came the tedious analysis of faculty-lounge politics at Harvard, as if anyone outside Cambridge really cared...
...facebook a lot more now that I’ve graduated than I did while I was in school,” Wajnberg writes in an email. “I have a tedious boring office job like most other recent grads, and thank God my firm hasn’t web-blocked thefacebook.com, so I can spend endless hours perusing profiles...