On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:31 AM, t.piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > Why don't you ask them your questions via their preferred mode of > communication?
Not a chance. Do you actually think that it would be preferable for workers in close proximity to one another to use phones to communicate with one another as opposed to merely speaking to each other? That is the stuff of teenage lifestyles. Firstly, that would be terribly inefficient, much too slow and cumbersome. Secondly, any attendant response from them would merely be placed into a queue until such time as they finished up with whatever personal calls, text messages, games or Facebook updates they were involved in were completed. The "grass roots" peer pressure approach by annoyed coworkers seems to be gaining some traction, but from what I have been reading about this growing workplace problem, it may not succeed. Most workplaces are finding that the only solution is a nearly complete ban on personal communications devices. In other words, if folks are going to act like children, then treat them like children. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
