Comments on: Cam’s World 27 July, 2007

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:54:04 +0000

Investment banks and the percentage of staff on FaceBook, courtesy of Confused of Calcutta.

http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/08/03/more-facebook-musings/

By: Cameron Reilly

Cameron Reilly — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:42:39 +0000

@Simon, Facebook is definitely addictive – although my addiction to is dropped after about a week and Twitter took over – but my point here is that employers don’t need to micro-manage their employees behaviour. They should be rewarding them on output or objectives, not what they do minute-by-minute.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:33:34 +0000

Let’s face it -Facebook is addictive and has nothing to do with most people’s jobs. If you caught an employee sitting around playing a gameboy you’d probably have to fire him since you can’t ban gameboys. I think banning sites is silly, but then, I’ve never abused the privilege. Many folks can’t seem to control their impulses.

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:21:56 +0000

Nice hair do Cam…

I’ll be watching “The Dopod Scandal” with interest.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:33:40 +0000

Facebok is blocked where I work as well. But then again so many sites are. Maybe because it’s because I work in govt and they block some sites but they aren’t abusive or anything like that.

Luckily I still have Twitter access to annoy people during the day when I am bored enough.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:13:35 +0000

Cam, I am doing a short term dev project at Telstra and noticed they had turned off facebook today. The 1st thing I did was complain saying things like ‘u guys just don’t get it’ etc. Funnily enough, it came back on late afternoon (Not that it bothered me, there are ways around these things) Incidentally, Telstra still dont allow internet access to all their employee’s, which in my opinion is a crime for any company, let one in IT&T. So much of Telstra’s (and others) thinking is so yesterday.

By: Richard Giles

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:20:45 +0000

Cam, re: Three. Tell ‘em that they’ve violated Section 52 of the trade practices act, and that you’ll contact consumer affairs unless they cancel the contract.

Essentially they promised a service, i.e.: a phone to make phone calls, which in this case is not correct. It doesn’t matter what T&Cs they have, they can’t provide something that doesn’t fulfill it’s stated objective.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:43:46 +0000

A mate emailed me yesterday because he was miffed his work had banned facebook just when he was starting to connect with old friends, etc (and i don’t think he has the net at home). My response was much the same as your thinking Cam;
“re Facebook – Aren’t you PR, you should ask for access to it fro IT on the basis of research and publication of the company in the realms of new media. They wouldn’t stop you reading the newspaper for an understanding of the company’s depiction in the public domain would they?”