Companies Blocking Facebook

While we should be working and not surfing the net, we also need to communicate, and young people best communicate through the Internet. If TPTB (The Powers That Be)in the corporate world are banning Facebook at work, they are really banning a form of communication. These big guys may not have trusted people over 30 back when they were young, but do they realize that young people of today are going to do the same (okay, maybe we are trusting people over 30 (I'm going to be 30 in a couple of years!!), but certainly we won't trust older people if they aren't going to listen!)....but they were probably so stoned back in the 60s that they didn't remember a thing.

Work is work and play is play. All healthy companies should have this blend of work and play happening in their respective workplaces. The integrity of the worker should govern their play activities to ensure they do not diminish their work activities. If the workplace was populated with self-governed, virtuous workers doing the right thing at the right time, great. But it isn't, they aren't and they don't.

When I contact a business and expect a prompt response from their representative, but I don't get it due to "Facebook" interference, that is bad business. Bad business habits need to be corrected swiftly and with certainty, if a company expects to remain competitive.

If the worker's activities, both on and off the job, lead to bad business, business must correct it or your customers will shop elsewhere.

If the activity is new, weird or without precedence, take a deep breathe, monitor it and correct when necessary.

Mr Minton