[lbo-talk] employment

[Curtiss_Leung at ibi.com]

Hell, technology *is* what enables my personal productivity to drop.
If I didn't have lbo-talk and my weblog and IM, I'd be doing work.
And I'm neither the only one or the worst offender: a while back the
WSJ had an article on all the ways technology enables people to really
and truly slack off--as in not even showing up at work for days and days.
Route calls to your cell phone, schedule email to go out at late hours
in the evening (so it looks like your burning the midnight oil), use
IM instead of face to face contact, broadcast voicemail messages--it was
truly 
beautiful.  Innarresting (cue Wm Burroughs snarl) thing was, the article 
also mentioned how some fake out their secretaries and staff--indicating
that 
a lot of these uber-slackers are management.

Value added indeed!

Curtiss


> One funny thing about this argument is that the tech investment boom 
> collapsed three years ago. So maybe it's the lack of new tech - 
> people are finally learning to use the stuff without it crashing - 
> that's the real key. Either that, or the tech story is bullshit.