Emsigkeit / Nachtbetrieb
English translation: diligence in the mornings, and auto-pilot in the afternoons
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| 21:56 Sep 3, 2005 |
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|  Selected response from: Alex Crichton Spain Local time: 10:14 | ||||||
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2 hrs confidence: 
diligence in the mornings, and auto-pilot in the afternoons Explanation: The operation of the hospitals is set up for diligence in the mornings, and auto-pilot in the afternoons. Grüne Pilz is lamenting the fact that at 1.00 p.m. "everyone runs off to their staff rooms." Nachtbetrieb refers to the "night mode" of a machine. (I think.) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs 12 mins (2005-09-04 04:09:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nachtbetrieb&btnG=Googl... From these pages, it is clear that 'Nachtbetrieb' often refers to the mode of operation in a device whereby it only switches on when somebody triggers the sensor, like lights or automatic garage doors that are turned off most of the time , but automatically switch on if somebody should come by. Now Pilz's metaphor is clear. Given that, I don't like auto-pilot so much and would say 'standby-mode' instead. |
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8 hrs confidence:
hyper activity/slack Explanation: as a poss. |
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9 hrs confidence:
busy bees in the morning/reduced staff in the afternoon Explanation: As I understand it, the comment refers to doctors, not to nurses: in the morning all doctors are present and they all go to see the patients; come 1 p.m., many of them leave for their private offices ("Verdienstecke")to see patients there and make money. If you are working as a doctor in hospital, you don't make much money, nowhere near as much as in your own office. So the more senior doctors cut their time in hospital short and leave as soon as they can. Those who remain are junior doctors (and the nurses) who do not (yet) have this option. So only really essential work is done in the afternoon and the patients are mainly left to themselves. Unless you consider being industrious as something negative, "Emsigkeit" has a neutral to positive connotation. |
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12 hrs confidence:
high activity/night-time slow-down Explanation: Mornings are in general busier periods in hospitals, however, I think the criticism is that in the afternoon it slacks off to next to nothing, comparable to nighttime. I can't see this being hospital policy, rather a staff induced silent complicity. |
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