for enjoying life, whilst having to put up with life's necessary evils of capitalism and having to earn money to survive. Don't wreck it by imparting rushing around the office though - I like moving a little slower. ere are some typical comments I hear from Australians in offices nearly 20 times a day: Q: How you doing? A: yeah busy. Q: How you keeping nice and busy? A: yeah busy Thats all everyone says. tehy get in at 7am for some strange reason and when I rock up at 8.30am they always make a point that they have got inearly and they are are....wait for it....busy! Ive monitored the amount of work they do in any one day and I reckon I do in an hour what they do in about 2 days but there the ones who say busy busy busy.... Im not really sure whether or not they actually believe their busy who just have no personalities to have a conversation other than to say "yeah im good im busy". My work experience is from a few years back, but I totally agree with you. I was quite shocked at the amount of time spent eating cakes for people's birthdays, and the first time the guy sitting next to me didn't return to the office after going down the pub for lunch on a Friday I was genuinely worried that something untoward had happened to him! Saying that, not everyone was a slacker by any means, but