It made the news on several places when email was banned at Phones4U. Seeing as though its a phone company you would have thought they’d have rung each other up anyway! Apparently the boss reckons they waste too much time being tied to email so he’s banned internal emails. From what I’ve seen from the emails that have been sent to me by someone working there (he no longer works there) most of the emails are likely to be funny jokes and flash cartoons and links to more of the same on web pages. It will be interesting to see if they move towards Instant Messaging – something we are looking at, informally, at the office with remote users starting to use it to communicate instead of email.
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The ‘boss’ there still acts as though he is the used car salesman that he started out as. I particularly liked the comment he made in the Daily Mail last week that the mother of his love child had promised to take the morning after pill, so he feels cheated.
Nice one JC.
I was almost foolish enough to get another contract there recently!!