Aug 13, 2009 Ann Berkeley
Did you even Know? "Companies worry they are losing millions annually as employees spend working time surfing auction and social networking sites. Restricting access is not the answer.
There is a gentle battle going on between corporations and their employees about the latter's use of company time for visits to social networking websites. New Nucleusresearch.com data shows that almost half of all employees access Facebook during working hours, causing companies to lose an average of 1.5 per cent of total office productivity.
This issue has been rumbling around like distant thunder for some time. According to Jacquie Cheng of artstecnica.com, back in 2005, Websense claimed that 93% of all employees admitted to using their employer's web access for personal as well as business reasons and that such shenanigans amounted to a loss of $200 billion per year for American companies."
You can read the rest if you want to on your next break.....Why am I speaking to Joe and Jane PunchTheTimeClock? Because these people are paid to check in, complete the days assignments or tasks, and go home. Most are Not given access to the social network sites of TweetMyFace unless they own a BlackIphoneDroidBerry....and even then, the social networks are limited in there accessibility through these mediums, until you are home! Laptop Open, Shoes off... wine poured and...the dinner dishes are being sprayed by an upper and lower sprayer arm provided by GE!
I point all of this out because I am no longer Jane PunchTheTimeClock, Im Muffin Self Employed! I get, better then most, how much of my time is WASTED on Facebook/Tweeting/Myspace/Active Rain/Blogger/Craigslist. I can tell you exactly how much money Ive Made on Facebook/Tweeting/Myspace/Active Rain/Blogger/Craigslist as well!
Did I mention Im self employed? If you spend all day Tweeting you are unable to make this months rent! However if I Link Lifes a Beach, Buy a Retreat (<---Go Ahead and Click it I know you want to)Via my Tweet and some Muffinite clicks it, Loves it, and Buys it....then Ive made... Lets do the Math...Listing Price: $123000.00 (X) % of sales price I get paid = More Money Per Hour then you paid your divorce atty ...Thats My PayCheck.
You and Most of employed America have a Job Description, a Salary or Per Hour work Agreement with your employer, and a scheduled time to be "ON THE JOB". I however, work at the convenience of my client. Often at the inconvenience of my family, my other clients, and quite frankly my own social fun time! This inconvenience affords me a little more Nut then the Other Squirrels in the park! You will not hear me complain that My Nutz are Bigger then You Nutz...Ever! Likewise: Its in poor taste to brag, and keeping it real and humble...My Nuts don't always produce perhaps as consistently as your Nut! So I keep my Nuttage on the Down Low and am proud of my friends when they expose their nutz for public scrutiny! There is however a little quirk if you will, a Body Tick that I get when its expected of me to work for FREE! NOT that the customer or client cant afford to pay me...I work ProBoner~ If I dont see you through to the Happy Ending... which is your Estoppel of Mortgage, Transfer of Deed or title, End of paying Maintenance Fees and Taxes, Then...You pay me NOTHING! However... if you do find yourself all euphoric and glowing after Ive "Closed the Deal" as likely we know you will, then like any good Hooker, I get paid! O Wait....even Hookers get paid UPFRONT with no guarantee of a Happy Ending! Perhaps I went to the wrong seminar on negotiations!

Discuss in the comments! Thats an Order!
Muffin in Charge and Large!
I can't access such networking sites at work and it really blows...So I got me a phone with an application to let me stalk ya'll.
ReplyDeleteA Muffin Most Certainly SHould Be Paid--and a Muffin knows how to get done what needs to get done...so Kick Some Ass Muff and get your rightly deserved check! Peace Out~
So which BlackEyePhoneBerryDroid do you have?
ReplyDeleteI agree, I earned my Check and they got their Money Shot! Oh Hail Yeah, I said it!!
This is why I can't do that type of work. I always want to start licking and promising. But you go, girl!
ReplyDeleteGet your worth Muffin, everyone else does and you should too!! Do not settle for a lower percentage of anything!! You are QUEEN BEE in your hive!
ReplyDeleteYou should always receive the prized honey and a lot of it!!