[geeks] New Suit Trends

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

I waste time on the internet, and I meet my work goals. Would I be more
productive if I didn't spend time playing? I don't know. Maybe I would just
hate my job and my productivity would suck altogether.

I play the "Meet-The-Metric" game. I establish goals with my supervisor and
meet them +10%. If I meet goals by noontime, I don't push ahead much
further. When I work fast it leaves more time for *other* things (assuming
my work is complete and correct, working too fast makes garbage that has to
be cleaned up).

They recently implemented project/time tracking at work, so I play the M-T-M
game even harder.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Joshua D Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
~ Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:52 AM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [geeks] New Suit Trends
~ 
~ 
~ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020318/wr_
~ nm/tech_internet_security_dc_1&cid=582
~ 
~ Argh.  I know that some people argue that workplace are for 
~ working, not 
~ internetting (there, I performed a suit-speak, turned a noun 
~ into a verb), but
~ it seems to me that with a sane firewall, it is a cheap way 
~ to keep workers
~ happy, and if they are productive enough (would I be more 
~ productive w/o
~ internet access?  Probably not.  Would I be less productive?  
~ perhaps), who
~ cares?  But then, maybe my view is skewed from years of 
~ places that expect
~ results, not just me putting in my time.
~ 
~ -- 
~ Joshua D. Boyd
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