[Market-farming] Cell Phones and Farming.

Andy Fellenz fellenz at fltg.net
Tue Mar 24 22:03:45 EDT 2009


Talk to your crew and share your concerns.  Most of my guys have cell 
phones and use them occasionally, but they are not a real distraction.  
I lose more time to crew members chit chatting w/each other than I do to 
the cell phones.  On the plus side, I call them on their phones when 
they are out of sight and I need them to shift gears and do something 
else.  I've also used them when I have to be off-site and want to get an 
up date on how the day is progressing. 

If I had someone like your college girls I would either put them on 
piece-work tasks or let them know that they could probably find a better 
job working for someone else.

Andy

Allan Balliett wrote:
> Perhaps I am a dreadful person to work for.
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> Let me know.
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> In the meantime, I'm wondering how the rest of you handle employees 
> with cell phones.
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> 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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