DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION At 60 M.P.H., Office Work Is High Risk By MATT RICHTEL October 1, 2009
JOPLIN, Mo. - Looking back, Paul Dekok wonders what he was thinking that May morning when the urgent call came in. Mr. Dekok, a manager at the Potash Corporation, learned that a 25-ton truckload of the company's additive for livestock feed had been rejected by a customer as contaminated. Scrambling to protect his company's credibility with a big customer, he grabbed his cellphone to arrange a new shipment, cradling it between his left ear and shoulder, and with his right hand e-mailed instructions to his staff from his laptop computer - all while driving his rental car in a construction zone on a two-lane highway in North Carolina. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/technology/01distracted.html *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
