Earlier today, on one of the many fifty-twelve–inch plasma TVs we have knocking about at The Twaddle HQ, I was watching Channel 4 News at Noon, presented by Krishnan “1990s Newsround Legend” Guru-Murthy.
The final item was about “many” employers having employed (lolpunlol) software filters to restrict their workers' access to Facebook and other such “social networking” sites. Their “reason” (read “excuse”) is that these sites “distract” workers.
Now, any way you look at it, employers who filter access to Facebook are admitting to being really, really shit.
- Maybe their recruitment and firing method is so far from the mark that they end up with the vast majority of their workforce being inherently lazy.
- Perhaps the work their employees are being told to do is soul-sapping, life-draining and tedious beyond redemption.
Hmmm.
- It could be that their discipline procedures are so shite that the employees can't be trusted to forgo using a website when they're told to, even on penalty of sacking.
(Though, to be fair, that last point probably boils down to one of the other two.)
Clearly, the employees aren't using Facebook because they're bored by their work, unmotivated and uninspired, and have an unfulfilling job—that they hate—at which their bosses treat them like children. That couldn't be it. Nope. Definitely not the case there. Boy, would I look foolish if I suggested that!
At the end of the programme, as usual, Krishnan looked down to his laptop. I detected a glimmer of a wry smile.
Oh, yeah—the “F-word” is F******k.
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Good for people to know.
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