Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Do You Check Email From The Closet In Your Hotel Room?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THOUGHT" @ 09:00 PM
http://www.careerjournal.com/columnists/cubicleculture/20040827-cubicle.html
I know many of us check our emails when on leisure trips, partially because we can. :D Even though I often don't need to check daily, I usually do just to keep things flowing and not have a pile of emails to respond to when I get back. Yes, my wife gives me "the look" when I take time out from whatever is going on, so I do try to keep it to a minimum. Still, I've never had to hide my mobile online activities from her. Not so for some people.
The attitude of family and friends forces Mrs. Burack to do what any self-respecting nonrelaxer must do: deceive, beguile and swindle. Last March in Hawaii, for example, her husband expressed shock that she hadn't brought her BlackBerry. But "I had it," she admits. "I was hiding it." She used it when everyone else was asleep, and if they weren't, she would sneak into the bathroom or the closet. The closet? "Oh, yeah, that's nothing," she says.
I know many of us check our emails when on leisure trips, partially because we can. :D Even though I often don't need to check daily, I usually do just to keep things flowing and not have a pile of emails to respond to when I get back. Yes, my wife gives me "the look" when I take time out from whatever is going on, so I do try to keep it to a minimum. Still, I've never had to hide my mobile online activities from her. Not so for some people.
The attitude of family and friends forces Mrs. Burack to do what any self-respecting nonrelaxer must do: deceive, beguile and swindle. Last March in Hawaii, for example, her husband expressed shock that she hadn't brought her BlackBerry. But "I had it," she admits. "I was hiding it." She used it when everyone else was asleep, and if they weren't, she would sneak into the bathroom or the closet. The closet? "Oh, yeah, that's nothing," she says.
