Managers with Backbone = that's exactly what our profession needs if it is
to deal with all sorts of problems and practices.

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> From: Nicholson, Claudia <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Personnel policy on computer use
> Date: Friday, October 23, 1998 1:12 PM
>
> Amelia Chamberlain said in her post:
>
> We have a couple of employees who feel it is okay to play
> games on their computer for the last hour of the day--and because there
> isn't a policy that specifically addresses the situation, it continues
> to be a problem--even though staff have been warned not to do this on
> work time.
>
> This strikes me more as a performance issue than a policy one.
> Referring to the absence of policy to justify continuing to spend
> inordinate amounts of work time playing computer games is akin to
> telling a manager that, in the absence of a policy to the contrary, I am
> going to sit naked in my cubicle!
>
> You don't need a policy to deal with this issue--you need managers with
> backbone.  Just one woman's opinion--
>
> Claudia Nicholson
> Curator
> Museum Collections Department
> Minnesota Historical Society
> 345 Kellogg Blvd. W.
> St. Paul, MN  55102-1906
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