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Much smaller company and they use their phones for company business.We banned the use of personal devices at their work stations. Employees were instructed to leave cell phones/bb/iphond/pod etc.. In their lockers. They could use them on breaks / lunch, but not during work / at their work area.. Employees who were found breaking the rule would receive documentation (verbal warning, written warning, etc...)
Good management always helps.. In doing my rounds I found an employee who had left their iphone playing music in a storage room... I took it, and brought it to security, and turned it in as "lost and found". I left a note with it that said "next time, I'll keep it" on it...
This one employee looked everywhere, and asked all the other employees if anyone had seen it... He didn't ask me, as he knows he wasn't supposed to have it with him. 5 minutes before the end of his shift, as I could see how stressed about it, I suggested "maybe you should check with security for lost & found?"
He did, and he got my note. Haven't had an issue with this one again
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Although I have been asked many times to give them our wifi password so that their phone or tablet can get on the internet. It is fun to deny them or give it to them since I still have to approve the MAC address (and wont) anyway.
I have actually been told that it doesn't cost me anymore money if they use the wifi.
"Yes it does since you wont work." lolLast edited by flyersfan76; 05-17-11 at 11:08 AM.
05-17-11 10:59 AM - It's the profligation of talking.
If you didn't want to write years ago, you didn't have to (once you were done with school). Look at Craigslist today, for example. Adults show themselves incapable of basic grammar or sentence structure...but before the internet, they would use, say, the newspaper to sell something. Look through the car classifieds, you'd see PS, PW, PL, CC, A/C, etc and know what those meant and there wasn't room for a description. Now you have as much room as you want.
Likewise, know an adult who's illiterate but can talk just fine?
Blame education, blame the kids and their rock n roll music, but realize your parents said the same thing about you; your grandparents said the same about your parents Did "Happy Days" ruin your generation, after all, like "they" said it would?
For those of us who grew up in the "tech" generation, we just have more ways to look foolish these days...and with the internet and texting and Twitter...we have a super easy, cheap/free way to spread our foolishness across the world
Same as with those printing presses, publishing books the Church can't proofread--don't allow the commoners to gain literacy, it will cause an uprising!05-17-11 01:33 PM - The only time it's cool is if they have that multi tap thing or in the case of not being able to see. I know someone who has eyesight issues and so when she types (on her qwerty) it's easier for to do it that way since she can't look at the screen long.
I wish they would find a way to stop the degradation of eyesight
05-17-11 03:53 PM - Where I'm coming from, people use the short terms of u, 2, dr, Ha3 and so forth because we don't have unlimited text messaging unless you pay for an actual plan but as someone mentioned even less than 160 characters and people still use text speak, I guess it just stuck for some. Majority of users are pay as you go subscribers and want to squeeze a message within one text message. When I was in college, I would send text messages using those short terms to save up on the cost.. now that I'm working, I type out with the proper spelling.
Text messaging has murdered the grammar and spelling for kids. I've heard this so many times and in so many places. Another thing I've heard complained about is the lack of good penmanship. As if I don't get enough of that with doctors.
Something that irritates me more are those who type in what you call 'sticky caps' I think. dS iS sO kEwL. Imagine a paragraph of that. Migraine.05-17-11 09:06 PM
