[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.
>
> 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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