🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Watching TV Shows While Working?

Does watching TV shows while working pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jonesy and Amanda gam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The Jonesy demand of arms today for the pub test
watching shows while you're working? Does it pass the post?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
It sounds outrageous, But let's have a look at what's
going on here. This is a gen Z thing. Gen
Z's in their mid twenties. These people at this age
can watch eighteen screens at once quite coherently. And I
know that it's fractured concentrator that well, it's fractured conversation.
The research shows that you do you a little bit
less at everything. But this is how they are. The
modern world is working, and so if you're at work

(00:33):
and you're doing your work at the same time and
getting the work done for you and I Brendan, it
would be stopping down and watching whatever you want to watch.
But if this can be done at the same time
as you work, how is this different? And this is
what they're saying that zen zs are doing. How is
this different to someone who spends an hour going for
a smoke break or a coffee break or whatever. How

(00:55):
you use your time if the work gets done. What
about when you.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
See the traffic controllers and they're on the phone while
they're doing the traffic controller. Shouldn't they be watching if
the mother and the baby you're coming through so they
don't get run over by a roller.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Not every job would be conducive to do.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
You see the traffic control.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
But if you're working from home, you'd be doing this maybe.
But if you get the work done, if you're in
the office and there's always someone who's going to be
the goof off person at work, I'm clearly collecting for
someone's birth dame, spending half a day doing it. What
if you if you get the work done, doesn't matter
how it happens.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's a hard note from me.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
All right, watching shows while you're working? Does it pass
the pub test?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I was originally going to say no to the pub test,
but well I was thinking about it. We listen to
the radio at work? Why not? Is they got to
get the work done? Never watch the TV. There's that
difference or is this just chatter in the background.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's a definite hard no for me. The reason being
is how can you actually be doing your work properly
by if you're an accountant, I mean watching the TV,
you could be getting thinkers rolls. The definite no, no, no,
We've got to have a problem with people watching TV
at work.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I suppose as long as they get their work done, the.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
TV show isn't really harmful.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I mean, it's not like they're watching porns.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Okay. I was an international flight last year and the
person in the seat in the row in front of
me was watching something that I thought, well, that's interesting.
It wasn't full on porn, but but I thought, if
there's if there was a kid in my seat, how
does that work?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Is this why your head was forced between the two seats,
Like when you.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
See a labrador in a car. What's happening in the
front seating it?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Thank you for all your calls.