Crackberry Addiction
Is it possible to NOT check your phone frequently? Between emails, voicemails, text messaging, black berry messenger, FB and Twitter, I always check my BB Storm when I hear my phone go-off.
Some of my clients call me. Some send me emails. Eric likes to send text messages and I BBM with co-workers (Mary Clare, Lauren, etc.) and friends/family. I upload pictures on TwitPic mobile and I respond to wall posts and leave photo comments on my Facebook Mobile. I guess I’m addicted?!?
So is there such a thing as having too much access to technology? Work and personal lines have become blurred. People send you emails at 8:00 pm because they KNOW you’ll see it. Employees ask questions on the weekend’s b/c they know they’ll get a response…almost instantaneously. Is not responding rude?
How do you know when your day officially starts and when it ends? I respond to emails before I get to work and I’m still sending emails hours after the “work day” is over. Sometimes clients will start a whole conversation about a topic at night, in which I’m sitting on my living room coach watching TV and responding to emails!
Can you actually go a whole weekend without using your cell phone? Maybe we should do a little experiment. =)
We’re in a 24-7 profession. We all do it. We all curse about it. And I for one feel lucky to have have good paying job I like. Amen for that.
I like my job also. And I hear ya jk about having one. But you must admit that blackberries and warped speed technology have turned us all into to on call surgeons.
Your 24-7 days pay a lot more than mine. I’ve been looking for a job after 18 very successful years of making a very healthy living, 24-7. And there’s not too many good jobs out there. I’ll take one in a heartbeat. 24-7.
What’s a weekend?
Weekends were a holiday in the old days before blackberries. We all live this way now. And a little tip at the beach-sand and water are very bad for your blackberry.
Love it or leave it. If I had to guess, I’d bet my last dollar that it will not get better. The efficiencies rapid communication offer to the world will leave us with two choices:
1) Join them in listening because every profession will require that
2) Lead them and stay one step ahead of the communications curve.
The agency you work at seems to be leading. Or killing you all? But we watch, copy and keep our jobs.
That’s all.
I actually find it very efficient and do not mind at all. It’s my poor husband who sleeps on the other side of my blackberry who does not seem to get it. I follow your boss on twitter and he retweeted some joke about the number of people who conceived while twitter was down yesterday. I know he was joking, but…
Sucks if you ask me.
Those days are gone forever. And I for one love warp speed and all that it has to offer. But if you can’t turn off your blackberry at bed time, you need help.
I’d love to have that problem, instead of the one I have with paying the mortgage.
I’m on the efficiency side of the debate.
Quit. Life’s too short for blackberries in bed people. Get a life.
And who pays Jaime’s bills? Rich husband? Quit is a pretty shallow perspective.
Communication will only get faster. At least your staff, boss, clients can’t beam themselves into your living room yet. Live with it Girl.
Good question. No great answer. I should have been a dentist.
I follow your boss in a few social networks. You all do wild and cool work. Hard to tell if you love it or need therapy. Of course, maybe like he seems to be doing- perhaps all of you are just intentionally generating some buzz and attention around an issue you already know the answer for.
I saw him a couple of weeks ago on a panel and this kind of fits with the formula he says he is not an “expert” on. Interesting.
Touche Sarah. All these “non experts” act the same way. Figures he claims not to be an expert. How humble.
Silly. Who are the so called experts. At least that’s honest. And I love my blackberry. No one touch it.
I regret leaving the industry. I long for the days that we asked questions like this one. Fascinating cultural times we are living in. I suppose they all are.
Leaving the “industry”? They are all like this. None of us are immune to 24 hour 7 day a week jobs anymore. Except Jaime and anyone who won the lottery.
If it’s rude to ignore an email for a few hours, too bad. Whether face to face, or by text, it’s important to establish personal boundaries.
I’m not sure who makes the calls over there at Ericho. Or how you all seem to be everywhere all the time. I’m exhausted watching though. What’s in the water at the office? I know, know-the tap water.
It’s 2009. Hello.
Sara wins. Assuming she’s employed now.
“Weekends” “Boundaries” Uh huh. Let’s see you turn off your blackberry. Keep your job. And not have 2000 e-mails on Monday morning.
Funny conversation and a bit of a statement in general about the times we live in.
Weekend e-mail is lighter. And I’d rather not have any to deal with Monday morning. I don’t find it intrusive at all and enjoy all the efficiencies technology gives us.
Technology makes Monday morning tolerable. Without it, I’d be looking at a mountain of e-mail and absolute stress.
The day has not started or ended in a decade. It could be a lot worse.
If my agency was not available when I needed them to be, I’d find one that was. That’s what we buy now.
Everyone who wants to keep their job over in this corner dealing with the evolution and speed of communication. And everyone who doesn’t-complain.
YUCKEE.. Here I sit looking at a mountain of e-mails that will take me until Friday to catch up with. Can any of the naysayers on this trail donate your blackberry to me? I will gladly take out over this dreadful and familiar Monday morning feeling.
I’d give you mine, but it beats a crappy Monday morning that overwhelms you before the coffee even sinks in. Tell your cheap boss to get you the technology you need to do your job. There really is no choice for anyone who aspires to be successful or already is. And it’s not just our industry.
I love this blog! Not just this one, but all them in general. It’s very forward thinking to have a manager who talks transparency and actually is. Anyone there ever get any flack for their posts? Does the the person in charge rule anything out? This blogs speaks volumes about authenticity (how sad it would be to discover is it all edited).
And the technology/blackberry question would have been a good one 5 years ago. Too late. While my husband spent more of the Red Sox game on his blackberry last night than watching the game. Neither of us minded (until the first home run). Efficiency. Easy.
Everyone says “addictive”. I say efficient. I don’t find it intrusive on my supposed off hours at all. If answering an e-mail from the pool is stressful, I’l take the job.
The reality of the seven day workweek. Love it or hate, that is the question. And I’d have to say considering the times, I love it.
Love-Hate relationship. Before you had an impossible five day a week job. Now you can do it with an extra two days. And those weekend blackberry days by the pool don’t seem stressful at all
Dreadful technology is a fact of professional (and often personal) life. Deal with it.
History repeats itself over and over and fast and faster. Can I sell you a fax or my answering machine?
The point here. The magic answer is what?