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John Walsh
Film God
Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 11-28-2001 08:47 PM
I think Richard is right; with e-mail,pagers, cell phones, etc. and the desire to stay competitive (especally in these tough economic times) people really work longer than a standard workday.A slightly disappointing thing, though. A few "bosses" I have talked to do not exactly feel that way. For example, a friend works for a "dot.com" company (which admittedly are in tough times now.) There was a problem with a customer's web page, and the HTML guy called my friend and talked to him for about 1/2 hour while he was seeing a film at my theater. Now, my friend didn't want to leave work 1/2 hour early the next day or any other compensation. (In fact, their staff is so "cut to the bone" no one can take any time.) He simply wanted his boss to acknowledge that he gave something extra, so the boss knows he is working hard and doing the best he can. The boss felt that my friend's inconveince was "trivial"; not even worth mentioning. After all, the company pays for the cell phone (he said.) And he wasn't doing anything important, like being at a wedding or something.
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 11-29-2001 04:42 AM
I find that mobile 'phones can have the opposite effect and actually limit the extent to which people pester you unnecessarily.Although my job (as a film archivist) is theoretically office hours, as with everyone else theory is never practice and I'm almost always catching up on work at home (5-10 hours weekday evenings across the week and about the same over the weekend, on average). Occasionally I have to go into work in an emergency, for example if regional TV news needs footage urgently. To deal with such situations I give my mobile number to anyone and everyone, but no-one is given my home land line number except friends and relatives. In the event that I don't want to be pestered (e.g. when on leave), I switch the mobile off - it's as simple as that. Because calling a mobile 'phone is so expensive (I'd guess about the equivalent of a dollar per minute during peak time, falling to 70 cents off-peak and weekends), I find that people don't do it unless they have to, especially now that many 'phone systems in large office buildings are configured not to allow outgoing calls to mobiles without permission from a manager. So by only giving people a mobile number (and I pay for the 'phone so no-one can tell me when I can and can't switch it off) I am still easily contactable if there's a good reason, but the cost discourages people from ringing me if there isn't.
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Pete Naples
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1565
From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 11-29-2001 11:29 AM
Basically I work 9-5 weekdays, but extra hours are put in earlier or later in the day as required. Weekends are call out only, and you better have a damned good reason for dragging me away from whatever I was doing! Try ons have included; I've run out of splicing tape, my lamp has failed and I don't have a spare / I don't know how to change it, etc, etc.Ken, welcome to 'rip-off Britain'. Not only does it cost extra to call a cell phone, it depends what time of day and which particular network you are calling from / to. The only saving grace is that we do not pay for incoming calls, but that's countered by the inflated line rental. Why are we paying for 'line' rental?? There are no blasted lines! OK there are cellular base stations, but nothing on the scale of the fixed network that forms our PSTN. My own cell phone (well the companys one that I carry) costs three times what a land line would in line rental, PLUS the calls!
To send a message to a pager is expensive too, but only for the sender, most pager networks do not charge any connection or rental fee.
I could go on endlessly about the ways in which we in the UK are being ripped off, but I won't 
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