Living in a MySpace/TXT World

Yesterday I had to attend a seminar called, "Working in a MySpace world."
Last week the clinic sent out a survey to all it's lost workers in the past year who quit. They got the surveys back, and the main reason people put for leaving the company was that they were unable to surf Myspace.

You would think that businesses would say, "Fine, you don't like it, go elsewhere!"
Instead, we received an email this morning saying that we will now be allowed to visit the site, "in order to improve morale."

I don't think anyone on here is a huge Myspace surfer, I know I'm not. I can't imagine thinking how much I hate my job because I can't add "Brandy" the newest girl on Myspace to flaunt a user picture of a model in a bikini and say it's her.

We have also added text messaging as a way to call in. I've heard of other companies starting to do this as well. This is a feature that Walmart could stand to gain. Walmart managers are ruthless, they make you dread the call in. I was once sitting in an ER, a steak knife sticking out of the top of my foot and I was still thinking, "Oh god I don't wanna call."

This feature is believed to cut down on the no call/no shows that younger staff members tend to have.

It blows my mind that we have this because, as the guy said, "It's hard for some people to call. They feel pressured, and those people usually end up just not calling."

I'm sorry. We're a weight loss clinic. There is not a person in this building who has not said to some total stranger, "If you don't stop what you are doing, you are going to die."

Yet saying to the receptionist that you talk to every single day, "I can't come in. Can you send my calls to voicemail?" is pressure?

What do you think about this? Would you quit a job if you couldn't visit a site that you enjoy checking frequently?

If you ever just not bothered to show up for work, would you have been more willing to explain your absence if you could have texted it instead of talking to someone?

I would not quit a job if I couldn't visit my Gmail. It might annoy me, but I wouldn't quit over it.

I would have texted my call in to SEVERAL jobs that I just eventually stopped showing up for. SVI, Blockbuster, Good Will, Subway.... yeah I have a lot of jobs that never make my resume.