Hard at Work or Hardly Working
“Hard at Work?” or “Hardly Working?” New technology has made it easier than ever for “white-collar slackers” to give employers and fellow co-workers the idea that they’re hard at work, when in fact, they are not working at all. “Slackers” can use e-mail timers to send an e-mail after they’ve gone to bed to give the recipient the impression that they are working late. They can use the RIM BlackBerry Handheld to send e-mail messages when they’re away from work which have the same format as e-mail messages sent from their office computer. ... When they miss a day of work, leave work early, or take an extra long lunch they can open up documents such as today’s newspaper or print reports to shared office printers so colleagues will think they’ve just stepped out of their office. ... Call Forwarding allows “slackers” to forward their office phone to another phone, so they can take the afternoon off for a massage or 18-holes at the golf course and still answer their work calls.