A close look at how firearms permits are issued in the United States.

Having worked 5 years @ NASA (as a low-level worker), THIS is indeed common, and a skill we all learned.

Some serious abdications occur for this to be so endemic.

he'll learn to slow down

what a complete waste of time

I don't know about that. It looks as though his life depends on getting those stacks knocked out by lunchtime.

Worked for an place I can't discuss trying to make things more efficient. We worked our socks off creating a product which made a small but significant task much faster.

We worked out we could save people 20 mins each per day, ran the numbers across the place and realised it added up to a large number of people freed to do more valuable work.

Then we went to speak to a user at about 1:30pm. "Oh I'm sorry, are you on lunch?". He had his feet up on his desk, reading a book. "No, I'm just done for the day". "You're working a half day?", "No I've finished". "Finished what?" "My 10 widgets for the day".

We realised all we'd done was allow this guy to start reading his book at 1:10pm.

If this was France, he'd be doing the same thing, only in reverse and with a queue of 500 irate Parisians waiting to get their driver's licenses only to be told they forgot to check Box 3 with a blue pen instead of a black one.