Comments on: Are We Forced to Work Around the Clock? https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/06/23/are-we-forced-to-work-around-the-clock/ Joe Palazzolo's Blog Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Steve https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/06/23/are-we-forced-to-work-around-the-clock/comment-page-1/#comment-4197 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:36:10 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=3493#comment-4197 All of these things have off functions and you can choose not to check the work email. If you feel swamped by after hours work, it’s likely your own dumbass fault for not using the buttons and free will. Unless I’m getting paid extra to do other people’s stuff off of the normal clock, the office can pound rocks as far as I’m concerned. If you’re being bothered by business junk on vacation you have nobody to blame but yourself. Just because the technology exists doesn’t mean you have to use it.

]]> By: Marty https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/06/23/are-we-forced-to-work-around-the-clock/comment-page-1/#comment-3939 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:33:28 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=3493#comment-3939 When my Razr phone broke a few weeks ago, I figured it was a good excuse to go and buy a better phone. I had long ago, concluded that I did not want to fall into the trap of having a contraption that gives any employer an excuse for having the means of contacting you and expecting you to follow-up then and there. While I myself would love to have an iPhone or a Blackberry, I would never want to be at a job where they give you one, with the expectation that if they give you something to do at 10 p.m. at night, then it must be done by 10:03 p.m – unless of course, they were paying me a few millions. :-]

At the AT&T store, I wasn’t real fond of paying the price for a Blackberry, and figured I did not need Microsoft Word and all. If I wanted the Internet, I could use it, and efficiently on a regular phone with one of those pull out keyboards. The Samsung Impression is a pretty nice phone – touch screen and pullout keyboard… and the most important reason why I want a cell phone… the call quality was excellent!

But I will never volunteer my personal phone to do work stuff. Won’t happen. I am lucky that I don’t have the capability of checking my work email outside of the office.

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