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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?
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.
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.