Exactly. Brad said from the very beginning that stuff wasn't getting done. The ESPN thing - although probably part of the problem - isn't the whole problem.

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OK...so lets change it up a bit and see how you handle this one....


You have a programmer....you walk into his office and he is at (oprano/gfy/ynottoppond).com ??? What do you do now??

Discuss amongst yourselves :blink:


--T

Give him a raise for being proactive enough to keep up with what's going on with the industry. :okthumb:

Funny how this is the only industry we REQUIRE people to be surfing porn!! We need a reverse porn filter - if they are not looking at porn, they need to be disciplined!!

:rokk:

If they are a programmer I use for coding adult stuff, then by all means they should feel free to read the boards. Heck, they can make it their home page as far as I'm concerned! :)

Update: If ya'll see me posting here a lot, you'll know why.... :)

(hidden text: Peaches, the check is in the mail)

hahaha

Definitely!!! Down with those non-porn sites! What's the world coming to? ESPN... CNN.... *shudder* How sick! lol

:groucho:

I do not care for my staff to read the boards. But I have not laid down the laws on that yet. I figure if you are not a marketing person or exec, reading the boards daily is a waste of time.



Last edited by BradShaw at Oct 30 2003, 12:57 PM

If a programmer sees what new things came out of your competition or things people are asking for to be programmed, more power to him.

If he's only reading who Boneprone did this week ...

If he's slacking in those "results" there's one answer. If he's coming up with new ideas or competing ideas to create, again, there's another answer.

I do not care for my staff to read the boards. But I have not laid down the laws on that yet. I figure if you are not a marketing person or exec, reading the boards daily is a waste of time.[/b][/quote]
For sure! Some people NEED to keep up on what is going on, and others do not.

Do you still allow breathing in the office, Brad? :P

I'd at least pick a better site. All sports are dull other than boxing, and there's only so much reading you can do about that.

we just set up the firewall and permissions so that certain employees only have limited and select access to the web and messengers. it made a big difference. suddenly people had nothing to do but work. :)

Brad ... this was definately something that I stuggled with as well. My basic policy was that if someone was getting done what I thought they needed to then basically they were able to surf pretty much what they wanted when they wanted (to a maximum of course).

But if someone was behind in work, and taking too many breaks etc. I would get on their ass. If the situation did not improve, fire them. Seemed to work for me anyhow.

Good luck with your situation.

And Greg ... just stop surfing ESPN so much and all this can be avoided. :groucho:[/b][/quote]
what is espn.com???

:awinky:

both Nicolo Machiavelli and Sun Tzu would say that you need to (and i am paraphrasing here) fire him loudly and in front of everybody, perhaps during a company meeting.

I think sun tzu literally said to cut off his head and machiavelli probably would have cut his head off just for thinking about surfing espn.



Last edited by Hooper at Oct 31 2003, 12:59 AM

Could also hire Terry Tate - Office Linebacker:

http://www.terrytate.reebok.com/

B)

Greg.. I said I would not do it again, can we just leave it at that ??

Please talk to Brad : )

After all I did for him in Cabo you would think he would give me a break!

MikeFold makes sense when he says that an intermediary (if they exist) should address these kinds of problems. Chain of command works wonders when it's maintained properly.

I'd have no problem with someone checking sports scores etc on a daily basis as long as quotas are being met and work is being done on time. If not, then there is a problem obviously.