Terribly slow administration

效率很差的行政作業
There are always queues for everything,
administration, seeing someone at the
Students' services center, opening a bank
account, getting vaccinated, etc.

從16日到曼徹斯特，每天總覺得老是在排隊。
銀行開戶要等一長隊、
打預防針也要排隊排到近3個小時！
    (救命啊！)

笫一次感覺.....時間可以這樣浪費的！

(Queue for the City Tours我們正在等去城市導覽的Bus)

In Taiwan,
if you go to a post office or bank to do some things,
there are always a sort-of machince which gives
you a number, and then you can choose to stay
and wait for your turn or you can simply just
come back later when you have done your
other things first elsewhere.

英國的行政效率可以說是差得不得了，
但為了辦事情，又不得不等。
不知道他們怎麼沒有想到可以
發「號碼牌」這樣的方法。

I just don't know why they couldn't
come up with this idea, but instead,
they wanted us wait for such a long time.
This is even worse in countrysides or
rural areas as I heard.


Don't British people know that
"Time is precious"?


It's really nice that people here are very just
and want to keep the order. When someone
cuts in line, s/he would get to be corrected or
mocked. But, can't there be more efficiency
in the administration process?

I thought
efficiency is crucial to good management,
no?

It's not fair that those people have to waste
our time like that. They may not have important
things to do, but we do. Time should be wasted
on good things, not the trivial and boring stuff.

聽說，在英國越到鄕下，
行政速度越慢！
明明曼徹斯特就是個大城市！