Sunday, October 12, 2008
"Modern Times"
“Modern times” is a movie that takes an old fashioned look at the current employee lifestyle in a business or company. The movie looks at a manager’s position and how it relates to the workers of a company. As the workers continuously fulfill a task on a conveyer belt, a manager stands there and watches until the worker makes a mistake or does something he or she is not suppose to do. This parallels to modern day managers who try to know their employees every move in the workplace. The fact that the manager in the movie was literally standing over top of the workers is referencing the idea that a manager’s eyes are literally your eyes in a sense. Everything you see and do so does your manager. This concept is directly related to computer monitoring is a company. When a person is employed, they can be monitored and videotaped without the worker’s consent. Most workers do not really know this. This is why it is a good idea to keep your private life private outside of the workplace and to also make sure that you do not write anything to anyone that you wouldn’t mind your boss reading. For instance, if you get a funny email from a friend and decide to forward it on to your best friend, you never know where it is going to end up after that. It could end up in your boss’ hands and he sees your email listing down the page and thinks you support the degrading of animals for example. In all, it is just best to understand how monitored you are in the workplace and to keep your private life out of the office.
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I completely agree with Sims' belief that your private life should be kept out of the workplace at all times. He gives the example of forwarding funny e-mails from your work place that could end up in the hands of your employers. This in general should not be done, as it is important to maintain a sense of professionalism at all times in the work place even though the level of professionalism likely varies from employer to employer. As an employee of the company, it is completely understandable that your employer has the right to scan e-mail to control a certain degree the fact that you are actually doing the job you are being paid to do. However, a different concept to look at would be how universities have the right to scan student's e-mail. As a student who pays tuition to attend this school, I do not believe it is fair that the administration has the right to check my e-mail.
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