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sleewell wrote:this thread reminds me how much i love my job. my boss and I send each other hilarious youtube vids and pics all day yet we somehow make the company tons of money and hit our numbers each quarter. policies like these in my mind would de-motivate more than bring productivity up.



depends on what your job, the person and your goals.... everyone is different.
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GuitarBilly wrote:
Casey4s wrote:How did everyone make it through a workday before we all had cell phones? If your family has an emergency they can surely contact you through your landline work phone can't they? :idk:

well, there was also a point in time where people made it through their work day without any phones at all. Or electricity. But that is irrelevant for the way things are today. Cell phones are a life line to a lot of people today. That's just the way things are in 2013. Whatever happened in the 50's -90's is not really relevant.

The work landline would be a valid option if companies didn't have an "all calls may be monitored/recorded" policy. Since pretty much all companies do have that type of policy, they can't demand employees to give their landlines for personal emergency calls, because these are calls the employee might not want the company to monitor or record. I don't necessarily want my boss to know everything that happens to my son or fiancee, yet I need a way to be reached if something happens.


We don't record our landlines or track and monitor the records at all. We don't have that kind of policy, we're just not big enough to give a shit like that. Family, spouses, friends, etc, are welcome to call the landlines in cases of emergency, or urgent personal matters. The bulletin that went out mentioned that everyone will need to inform their families, spouses, etc. how to contact them on the work numbers, and they were given several days to do so prior to the policy going into effect.

This might all lead to another problem though, which I recognize, of people just gabbing away all day long on their work lines. And people are making a lot of good points either in support or opposition of what my company's doing. Every company and operations, culture, way of doing business, way of promoting and increasing wages is different. In our case some more stringent controls needed to be implemented, and so far it's working.
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Jesbus !!! Someone just done a drive-by on my home :freak:
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Dicking off is a big part of being productive. Take my phone and internets away and I'll just go for a few 30 minute long shits.
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What's up with all the recent, "I'm the boss man, I do what I want to people's faces" themed threads you been posting lately?
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Lloyd Blankfein wrote:What's up with all the recent, "I'm the boss man, I do what I want to people's faces" themed threads you been posting lately?


He's actually Eric Cartman.
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Pepi wrote:Jesbus !!! Someone just done a drive-by on my home :freak:


Wat? Srs?
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I get why some places need that kind of policy. Especially production lines or something like that. If you've got really tight margins and have to have a certain level of productivity to stay in business, then you gotta do what you gotta do. And especially with those sort of jobs, you HAVE to babysit the sort of folk you have working those jobs.
Now if your employees have half a brain, or a work ethic, it shouldn't be necessary. I'm not even in any position to even BE fired over such a thing, but because I care about the success of our business, I obviously don't answer my phone in front of customers, or if it's possible it's important, I'll only answer it with a quick "can it wait?"

There's no single right or wrong practice, it totally depends from one company to another. And it's also totally understandable why it would apply to some people but not others.
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Lloyd Blankfein wrote:What's up with all the recent, "I'm the boss man, I do what I want to people's faces" themed threads you been posting lately?


Self pep talks. :bang:
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