[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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