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Unlock Internet or Risk Losing Staff?
Dan Warne writes "People don't want to work for employers who heavily restrict internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said in a keynote speech at the opening of Tech.Ed 2006 Sydney today. From the article: 'These kids are saying: forget it! I don't want to work with you. I don't want to work at a place where I can't be freely online during the day," said Microsoft Senior Design Anthropologist Ann Kiera. She dubbed internet-wary employers "digital immigrants" and said the new wave of younger workers were "digital natives".'"
Nothing for you to see here move along...
Damn work filters.....I'm quiting
Go waste somebody else's money. I don't want a bunch of slackers "working" for me, taking my money, and doing other things when they should be productive. I don't ask my people to work overtime becuase we schedule so that things get done in the alloted schedule. If you are so addicted to the internet that you can't put in 4 hours before lunch and 4 hours after lunch without access to all of it, you're not going to do what I need you to do.
Oh, and you'd better not spend a bunch of time on your cell phone in my office either. Everybody has emergencies...nobody has them so often that I should know which ringtone your girlfriend is.
Oh, and get off my lawn you damned whippersnappers.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Amazing how you can pervert one science to make yourself sound smarter. Senior Design Anthropologist? What does she do? Dig through old Commodore PET and TRS-80 computers looking for clues to the outgrowth of the Internet?
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
First there was Chief Hacking Executive, now Senior Design Anthropologist? What next? Chief Chair-Throwing Gorilla? Oh wait...
The quote was taken out of context. Here is the full exchange.
Employer: Of course we have Internet, but our firewall restricts access to "inappropriate" sites during working hours.
Kids:Forget it! I don't want to work with you. I don't want to work at a place where I can't be freely online during the day. I'll just move back in with my parents and use their DSL.
Parents: Sure, OK. What do you think would be a fair rent?
Kids: Rent? Where are we suposed get the money to pay rent?
[parents and employer exchange significant glances]
Parents: Umm, honey, I don't know if they explained this in school. "Work" is the eight hours out of the day when you do things you'd rather not be doing so you can pay for things like food and rent.
Employer [taken aback]: Eight hours?
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What I think is funny is that most people here are posting from work.
You're absolutely right. In my days we'd have to walk two miles, in the snow, uphill BOTH WAYS to get to the water cooler to gossip and otherwise waste company time - and we LIKED IT.
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
Show me a telephone number which you can dial and that, by the simple act of connection, results in the infiltration of your company's office
Hello, New York Times? Get me your best reporter, I've got a memo in my hands that outlines SuperMegaCorp's plans to test drugs on people by lacing their subsidiary's canned foods.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Never been to Soviet Russia, eh?
When in the entire history of viruses has someone ever decided "hey, I'll make my virus 700 megabytes and take hours to spread from person to person!"
Bill Gates, 1995.
That's called tenure. It does not exist in the real world, only academia and government. I do believe the poster meant an actual business environment.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
I saw that done years ago at a major Hollywood animation studio. The internal network, used for feature animation, was completely isolated from the outside. The external machines were set up as kiosks, and unconnected from anything else. But this was in 1998.
By 2002, they weren't doing that any more. They'd switched from SGI to Windows, and Windows needs to talk to the mothership in Redmond.
Otherwise whats stoping me from grabbing this 10 meg spreadsheet with all kindsa of useful customer info on it and emailing it to myself at home?
What's to stop you from running naked down the halls? What's to stop you from buying a shotgun and killing 4 people? What's to stop you from taking a dump on your boss's desk?
Are you incapable of self-control to the point where you need someone physically preventing you from doing wrong? Do you need to be bound and gagged and transported Hannibal Lector-style on a handcart everywhere you go?
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