[Market-farming] Cell Phones and Farming.

Allan Balliett aballiett at frontiernet.net
Tue Mar 24 21:54:52 EDT 2009


Perhaps I am a dreadful person to work for.

Let me know.

In the meantime, I'm wondering how the rest of you handle employees 
with cell phones.

Cell phones can be very valuable, of course, In theory, I can call an 
employee when I'm off the phone and ask them to check water or ask 
them to move to a different task. At the same time, someone else can 
call an employee while he's working for me and ask him all sorts of 
things.

It's getting pretty disheartening to realize how many times I go to 
check an employee's progress doing something like planting onion 
bulbs only to find them smiling away into a tiny cell phone while 
they poke a bulb into the ground ocassionally with the other hand. 
Even worse, though, is the person who gets a call and then is upset 
and unproductive the rest of they day. College girls do this quite 
often, at least in my experience.

It wasn't until I saw TROPICAL THUNDER that I even though about 
having a big zip lock bag that everyone is asked to drop their cell 
phones into every day. Why not? When I worked in offices, it was 
never cool to have personal calls on the landlines, as I remember it.

But in a world where it is hard enough to find help, I hate to think 
that I'm developing unreasonable standards.

What do you think?

-Allan in WV



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