All is not well in The Force

 

Some websites have recently been restricted at the office, mostly email sites such as Yahoo Mail, Google Mail, and Lycos. It has proven a bit burdensome to me because part of my early morning routine when I arrive at the office– apart from reading the newspaper and fixing myself coffee – is to check my personal web-based email.

 

Now maybe I shouldn’t be complaining in the first place because it’s really not part of my job to check personal emails while at work. But in my case, checking emails doesn’t really take that long, about 10 minutes max. A lot of the mail I get is spam anyway.

 

However, it’s the reason for restricting these sites that’s getting my goat.

 

According to some inside report from friends, management is trying to limit email correspondence. Apparently several employees have already jumped over to “The Dark Side” (the direct competitor) and they are trying to stop the bleeding.

 

I disagree with the way they are handling things. If and when problems arise, the proven solution is to go to the root. If a roof leaks, you don’t just go and place buckets under the leak to collect the water; you fix the goddamn leak.

 

When people are leaving a company and transferring to the competitor, you don’t restrict correspondence because you think some of the former Jedi who are now with Darth Vader will email those who are still in “The Force” and will be able to convince them to go over to “The Dark Side”.

 

No, it’s not as simple as that.

 

If things are doing well in “The Force”, who would want to jump over to “The Dark Side”?

 

Maybe instead of restricting email, they should find out why these people are defecting.

 

Perhaps it isn’t all that rosy in “The Force”.

 

They better do something quick because the leak is getting worse. They might have to buy more buckets (or hire and train more Jedi). And buckets don’t cost cheap these days (nor Jedi).