假装是聪明的工作方式-英语课

时间：2019-02-18 作者：英语课 分类：阅读空间

英语课

　　Is shirking just a smarter way of working?

　　假装是聪明的工作方式？
　　“Fudgelling”, I learned the other day, is an 18th-century word meaning “pretending to work when you’re not really working”, which goes to show it’s an age-old phenomenon. (There’s also the Italian phrase giacca civetta, or “owl jacket”, a modern coinage to describe the jacket slung 1 over a desk chair, late at night, while its owner is enjoying la dolce vita.)
　　前几天我了解到“Fudgelling”是一个18世纪的单词，它的意思是“假装工作”，这说明这是一个自古便有的现象。（还有意大利短语giacca civetta或者是“猫头鹰夹克”，这是一个现代的词汇，用来描述夹克挂在书桌的椅子上，实指深夜时夹克的主人过着马切罗式的逃避生活）
　　假装是聪明的工作方式
　　Today, with work demanding more of us than ever, it’s no surprise to witness the rise of extreme fudgelling. In a recent study, the academic Erin Reid spent time at an unnamed US management consultancy that exp plans to stay late, etc. She discovered that 31% of men and 11% of women found ways tects total devotion from employees: responding to emails at midnight, cancelling birthday plans to stay late,etc.She discovered that 31% of men and 11% percent of women found ways to “pass” as workaholics: they vanished from work without telling anyone, or made covert 2 deals with colleagues so they could spend time with their families.
　　今天,随着工作的要求越来越多,人们不难看到极端fudgelling的兴起。在最近的一项研究中,美国学术艾琳·里德在一个不知名的管理咨询公司做实验计划待到很晚。她发现31%的男性和11%的女性找到谁是全情投入工作的员工的方法:午夜回复邮件,熬夜取消生日聚会等。她发现31%的男性和11%的女性找到了作为工作狂的“通行证”:他们没有通知任何人便从工作中消失,或者为了能够花时间与他们的家人（在一起）,而与同事秘密做交易。
　　And here’s the thing: it worked. People who made formal arrangements to reduce their workloads 3 - more often women - got penalised for not pulling their weight. Yet the fake workaholics, predominantly men, were seen as no less devoted 4 to their jobs than the real ones, and were rewarded accordingly. This says something depressing about sexism, but it also shows that what was being rewarded wasn’t relentless 5 work, but the appearance of relentless work.And here’s the thing: it worked.
　　现在的情况是:它确实有效。通常情况下，女性通过做出正式工作安排减轻压力，却因为不尽责而受到惩罚。因此然而,假的工作狂,主要是指男人,他们并没有和真正的工作狂一样尽心付出，却也得到相应的奖励。这里便提出了性别歧视这样令人沮丧的问题，同时表明，获得奖励并不是因为刻薄无情的努力工作，而是努力工作的表象：这种方式确实有效。
　　What we are dealing 6 with here is “signalling”- in this case, how we communicate the message that work’s getting done, which doesn’t always mean work’s really getting done.
　　我们在这里讨论的是“信号”，是指在这种情况下，我们如何传达正在工作这种信息，而这并不总是意味着真正在工作。