Comments on: Productivity Experiment http://www.suzemuse.com/2007/12/productivity-experiment/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:35:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stacey http://www.suzemuse.com/2007/12/productivity-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Stacey Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:36:24 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/productivity-experiment/#comment-38 Good for you, Snu. I'm very proud of you for setting your priorities straight and sticking with them. I own an old Fido phone that hasn't been in service in close to four years. I used to have an Ottawa Vonage number. I got rid of that because no one used it. We barely use the Tronna number we have, and our main phone - Joe's cell - doesn't ring much. We are slaves to our email during the day, though, because I try to block customers' access to Joe so he can get work done, and in between service calls and service work, he will take the time to respond to emails and send out custom computer build quotes. I have worked hard at training customers to not expect him to run to the phone and to send him a quick email if it's truly important. And on top of that, I have gotten into the habit of asking customers to Google their problems and issues before they bring in their machines to make sure they have simple malware they can delete vs. rootkit viri Joe needs to clean off manually. There are many customers who happily accept my suggestions, but there is a small contingent who don't, but I don't worry about them because they have only started to talk to me recently after being there for months now, and despite the fact that I'm a girl. Surprisingly that's still a huge deal for men. They only want to deal with another man because little girls or little women can't possibly know anything about how to turn on a computer much less run one, right??!?!? *rolls eyes* Good for you, Snu. I’m very proud of you for setting your priorities straight and sticking with them. I own an old Fido phone that hasn’t been in service in close to four years. I used to have an Ottawa Vonage number. I got rid of that because no one used it. We barely use the Tronna number we have, and our main phone – Joe’s cell – doesn’t ring much. We are slaves to our email during the day, though, because I try to block customers’ access to Joe so he can get work done, and in between service calls and service work, he will take the time to respond to emails and send out custom computer build quotes. I have worked hard at training customers to not expect him to run to the phone and to send him a quick email if it’s truly important. And on top of that, I have gotten into the habit of asking customers to Google their problems and issues before they bring in their machines to make sure they have simple malware they can delete vs. rootkit viri Joe needs to clean off manually. There are many customers who happily accept my suggestions, but there is a small contingent who don’t, but I don’t worry about them because they have only started to talk to me recently after being there for months now, and despite the fact that I’m a girl. Surprisingly that’s still a huge deal for men. They only want to deal with another man because little girls or little women can’t possibly know anything about how to turn on a computer much less run one, right??!?!? *rolls eyes*

]]> By: Adrian Cho http://www.suzemuse.com/2007/12/productivity-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Adrian Cho Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:07:43 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/productivity-experiment/#comment-41 Well I'm impressed. I'm not sure I could do it. I certainly can't get enough news. I guess I am addicted to my BlackBerry even though I say I'm not. I do turn it off when I get home but then I just switch to my laptop which goes with me throughout the house. Well I’m impressed. I’m not sure I could do it. I certainly can’t get enough news. I guess I am addicted to my BlackBerry even though I say I’m not. I do turn it off when I get home but then I just switch to my laptop which goes with me throughout the house.

]]> By: suzemuse http://www.suzemuse.com/2007/12/productivity-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-40 suzemuse Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:39:21 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/productivity-experiment/#comment-40 Not bad on some fronts - The streamlining of the email has definitely helped. I realize there is a certain amount of "training" I need to do with my contacts, to let them know that I am not on email as often. But last night I turned off my Blackberry, and didn't turn it back on till 9am this morning. Did the world end? Nope! Everything was handled, problems were given time to solve themselves, and I was freed up to think about other things. The media one is the hardest- I'm a true junkie! But I'm working on it. It's hard since there are so many captivating news stories in the past week. Maybe I need news re-hab. Probably my best success is putting my Blackberry to Phone Only. i'm not tempted to check it everytime a message beeps in. Not bad on some fronts – The streamlining of the email has definitely helped. I realize there is a certain amount of “training” I need to do with my contacts, to let them know that I am not on email as often. But last night I turned off my Blackberry, and didn’t turn it back on till 9am this morning. Did the world end? Nope! Everything was handled, problems were given time to solve themselves, and I was freed up to think about other things.

The media one is the hardest- I’m a true junkie! But I’m working on it. It’s hard since there are so many captivating news stories in the past week. Maybe I need news re-hab.

Probably my best success is putting my Blackberry to Phone Only. i’m not tempted to check it everytime a message beeps in.

]]> By: Adrian Cho http://www.suzemuse.com/2007/12/productivity-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Adrian Cho Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:04:06 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/productivity-experiment/#comment-39 Interesting and so how is this connected cold turkey experiment going so far? Interesting and so how is this connected cold turkey experiment going so far?

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