I am in the process of opening a 個人型年金 account (“Japanese 401k”). It includes a paper-based process which returns a boolean (“Patrick is indeed eligible: true”) and takes 1~2 months to come to that determination. This is not rocket science; it is a DB lookup, by primary key
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There are a *lot* of government-facing processes which take six weeks because 6 weeks felt like a reasonable amount of time to put in the project brief and nobody has any incentive to speed it up. Almost all of them are absurd, and obviously so. Productive impatience helps.
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Have you ever noticed that portions of companies which interface directly with the government adopt the government’s attitude towards timelines and portions which are customer-facing scream “faster faster FASTER”? I’d encourage you to listen to that second voice.
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I acknowledge that there are forms of work which add human-perceptible value for taking a while. Paperwork processing is very, very rarely one of these. If it can’t literally kill someone it doesn’t need to be denominated in months.
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"If you have a ten year plan, the first question to ask yourself: Why can't it be done in six months?"
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Like when you unsubscribe from a marketing mailing list and it takes "up to 2 weeks" to process your request
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I’ve been having these exact thoughts and feelings towards banks while attempting to switch to a new bank. It’s 2018 and it is going to take me almost a month to move my money to an online bank because of archaic rules and timelines.
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You are confusing work time with idle time. None of the processes
@patio11 is talking about take six months of work. Stuff just waits lying around. No value whatsoever is added in the months compared to days or now.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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