Companies shutting down access to blogs?
Shel Holtz over at a shel of my former self has a great post on the stupidity of companies and schools stopping access to blogs in the name of productivity and safety.
Just ridiculous! If I were ever to find myself in such a company - I would quit on the spot. How can people be so short-sighted?
…oh well, like my mother used to say: “if all stupid people would fly, it would be permanently dark.”
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October 28th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
So, how do you answer a manager that says I don’t want my people to be sitting here reading blogs. How do they get their work done if they are reading unrelated blogs?
October 30th, 2005 at 8:08 am
I would tell the manager to go pound sand, and I would start looking for another job.
Managers should be measuring people based on deliverables and not on how they get there. If a person wants to read blogs all day long and then do all their work at home after their family goes to sleep - is that my business?
As long as what I am expecting gets delivered - that is what counts.
November 2nd, 2005 at 2:15 pm
My last employer didn’t look kindly on blogging either. Anything that was considered to be not in direct relation to the work (asses in seats, nose to the grindstone) was an offense punishable by immediate termination. I am quite certain that blogging would have been somewhere near the top of that list.
Needless to say, I since moved on.
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Olivier - thanks for your comments - I truly enjoy them.
It is unbelievable to phantom just how some of those companies survive…there is so much incompetence out there…with so many people stuck in the “industrial revolution” mode of thinking and behaving.
But then again, that is way more advanced than some parts of the executive branch of our government, which seem to try to take us back to the middle ages…
…oh well, enough about that.