▲ 183 ▼ Phone bans are spreading across the US workplace (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 4 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/news@lemmy.world 108 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children) This needs to become a human right. Fuck asshole coworkers who think they can monopolize your attention to fuck with you permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago I’ve never thought about it beyond questioning why they think your real life stops when your work life starts, but yes, it does. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) Not only that, but locking down your communication with your family and friends outside the monolithic "workplace." Screw that! "I didn't know my family urgently needed me because my boss took my phone :(" "11 and counting wounded or dead in workplace violence incident, help was delayed because employees weren't allowed phones." Jobs trying to be your parents, warden, spouse, or god, need to be put in their place. Draw that line hard. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago Exactly. Pay me enough, and treat me well, and I will weave my personal and work life together. But tell me that when I'm at work, my personal life disappears? That's a different kind of balance, and that means that when I'm not at work, work disappears. Travel, no. Dinners, no. Special events, no. Conferences, no. Don't even ask, the answer is no. But that wouldn't happen. I'm not working anywhere that doesn't recognize my basic humanity. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago I’ve never thought about it beyond questioning why they think your real life stops when your work life starts, but yes, it does. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) Not only that, but locking down your communication with your family and friends outside the monolithic "workplace." Screw that! "I didn't know my family urgently needed me because my boss took my phone :(" "11 and counting wounded or dead in workplace violence incident, help was delayed because employees weren't allowed phones." Jobs trying to be your parents, warden, spouse, or god, need to be put in their place. Draw that line hard. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago Exactly. Pay me enough, and treat me well, and I will weave my personal and work life together. But tell me that when I'm at work, my personal life disappears? That's a different kind of balance, and that means that when I'm not at work, work disappears. Travel, no. Dinners, no. Special events, no. Conferences, no. Don't even ask, the answer is no. But that wouldn't happen. I'm not working anywhere that doesn't recognize my basic humanity. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago Exactly. Pay me enough, and treat me well, and I will weave my personal and work life together. But tell me that when I'm at work, my personal life disappears? That's a different kind of balance, and that means that when I'm not at work, work disappears. Travel, no. Dinners, no. Special events, no. Conferences, no. Don't even ask, the answer is no. But that wouldn't happen. I'm not working anywhere that doesn't recognize my basic humanity. permalink fedilink source parent