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02:06:43 pm on June 5, 2008 | # | |
Egyptian government workers spend an average of 27 minutes a day working. Lengthy prayer breaks are cited as a major contributor to the problem. The solution? According to a fatwa from Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, limit prayer breaks to 10 minutes.
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Lawrence of Arabia 2:27 pm on June 5, 2008 | #
27 minutes seems plenty to me. are there job openings?
aziz 2:56 pm on June 5, 2008 | #
Somehow I don’t think the prayer breaks are a cause, they probably are more of an effect. In a rigidly bureaucratic state, government workers’ role is not to deliver services on behalf of constituents but rather to preserve that bureaucracy’s function for its own sake. Thus the edifice of institutionalized power is preserved and this is what enables the autocracy to persist. Corruption and sloth are hallmarks of this.
If they limit prayer breaks to 10 minutes, then the workers might spend less time praying, but they wont spend any more time working.
Andrea Useem 6:34 pm on June 5, 2008 | #
did you ever see that Adil Imam film, “Kebab wa’l Irhab,” where he has to go all around the Mugamma trying to get some piece of paper stamped, and every time he visits this one bureaucrat, the guy is praying. And finally Adil Imam looks at the clock, and it’s 10 am, and he’s like, “What prayer are you even praying?” it’s hilarious. of course the praying guy has a long beard and one of the rug burns on his forehead.
Willow 8:11 pm on June 5, 2008 | #
Most government employees are paid about LE300 per month (approx $50), which is so far below the poverty line it’s laughable. They have no incentive to work hard.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Mugamma…it’s an experience, that place…