The Problem With Wet Dreams

You always end up with a wet mess.

Was there any rational human being who thought that hiring another entire shift worth of personnel (with all of the attendant overhead), administrative support, and supervision, while paying the same, would lead to any results other than “too expensive”? I’m glad they’re proving that these things don’t work, but the tards over here won’t listen to that anyway. They have dreams of Utopia and no amount of countervailing empirical evidence will sway them from their asinine position.

Swedes looking forward to a six-hour workday just got some bad news: the costs outweigh the benefits.

A two-year experiment cutting working hours while maintaining pay levels for nurses at Svartedalen old people’s home in the Swedish city of Gothenburg is now nearing the end. The take away was largely positive, with nurses at the home feeling healthier, which reduced sick-leave, and patient care improving.

But the city has no plans in making the measure permanent or broadening it to other facilities. To do that it would need much more money and even help from the national government. To cover the reduced hours for the 68 nurses at the home it had to hire 17 extra staff at a cost of about 12 million kronor ($1.3 million).

“It’s associated with higher costs, absolutely,” said Daniel Bernmar, a local left-wing politician responsible for running the municipality’s elderly care. “It’s far too expensive to carry out a general shortening of working hours within a reasonable time frame.”