Mark Waks
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5 months ago
in Will You Quit Your Job for Facebook? on AllFacebook
It's not just Gen-Y -- I'm 43, and probably wouldn't be willing to work somewhere that didn't have broad Internet access.
To be fair, Facebook is a ways down my personal priority list: IM and LJ matter more to me. But the basic principle is that it's a dumb policy. A smart company knows that employees need to chill and communicate a bit during the workday. If that interferes with getting their jobs done then they should be canned, but so long as it's kept within reasonable bounds it helps people have lives, and not resent work so much.
Internet restrictions really only make sense if you view your employees as dumb identikit drones. But if that's your attitude, I don't want to be anywhere *near* your company...
To be fair, Facebook is a ways down my personal priority list: IM and LJ matter more to me. But the basic principle is that it's a dumb policy. A smart company knows that employees need to chill and communicate a bit during the workday. If that interferes with getting their jobs done then they should be canned, but so long as it's kept within reasonable bounds it helps people have lives, and not resent work so much.
Internet restrictions really only make sense if you view your employees as dumb identikit drones. But if that's your attitude, I don't want to be anywhere *near* your company...
5 months ago
in Facebook Has Problems With Latest Release on AllFacebook
My wife probably had the CSS problem last night -- she remarked to me that she was seeing screen elements overlapping strangely...
6 months ago
in Facebook Calls it Quits on Java on AllFacebook
Garh. No, there aren't a lot of us Java developers -- just the people who are trying to develop the sort of sticky, high-end, seriously *useful* apps that they claim to want.
This is a very short-sighted decision, IMO. We can live with it, but it's yet another distressingly contradictory message from FB...
This is a very short-sighted decision, IMO. We can live with it, but it's yet another distressingly contradictory message from FB...
7 months ago
in Facebook Chat Open to All Within Weeks on AllFacebook
Boston appears to have gotten it yesterday. It's nice, but I have my FB window minimized most of the time, so I'm seriously hitting the problem of people trying to chat and not being able to get my attention.
(And I agree that Jabber support would be faboo...)
(And I agree that Jabber support would be faboo...)