Do You Text at Work?

Gee, I am not sure...

Is commenting on CR4 considered texting?

I will reserve my response until after I review this answer. ^{_{(Bad feeling setting in)}}

You are guilty as charged. _{Your secret is safe with me. (For now)}

Where is the link to this decision. We keep getting information in these blogs with nothing to back them up.

I don't need the Supreme Court to tell me something i would think everyone should already know. If on the companies equipment then it's theirs to do with as they wish.

What I would like to know what if it's not company equipment but on company time. Did they make a decision that the text or post on company time represents work produced and have a right to it also?

Well since I'm the employer and the equipment is mine...I guess I don't care.

Wasn't the case one of a cop sending erotic messages to a mistress using department equipment and fees or some such thing?

Yes, He was also told his communication would be monitored. That he would be responsible for any charges for personal use. The department at the time was looking to see if they were allowing sufficient time use for work. As that there where many that were over drawing their time allotment. It was not just his mistress but his wife, ex-wife and some of the female officers. He just made a big stink about it. I wonder why?

What is with this fascination with texting? Shouldn't the order of communications means have gone like this?

1. Drums

2. Writing

3. Printing press

4. Telegraph

5. Texting

6. Telephone

To me, texting is a step backwards, not forward.

I think you left one out betwean drums and writing.....smoke signials.....as for the supreme court judgements they can continue to "think" for us so we can spend our time being productive citizens...I am at work so I need to go...I have to get my texting done...

teacher can hear you text

The teachers I've talked to lately all ban cell phones/I-Pods/etc. in the class room now to stop cheating.

Yes and when i was there you were not allowed to write and pass notes in class. It still was done. Texting quiet talking on the phones not. Now the class room is no limit as to how far the note can go.

Small addition/correction, if you don't mind, based on your post's numbering:

1a. Cave paintings.

1b. Icons, trail-makers, and other rock-art warnings/encouragements to the club or arrow-armed hunters/gatherers.

Also, your items 5 & 6 appear reversed to me: the telephone (your 6) far preceded texting (your 5), but probably started the trend. ("Oh, I know you're hurt. That's just awful. What did you say to him, then?" the clerk said INSTEAD OF COMPLETING MY PURCHASE TRANSACTION!

Agreement from me, same proviso:

Texting is the most inefficient form of communication devised in the last 20-years. I wonder about the probable number of "texting-related thumb injuries" we should expect to "insure" over the NEXT 20-years; all for a gimmick?

I had an Osborn luggable in the early '80's and proudly displayed it and its 9" screen (or was it 7" diag) to folks who then INVARIABLY commented "how can you read that tiny screen?" and left me scratching my nog over their lack of appreciation for high-tech.

I'm surprised my nog isn't bald now, no matter the res, when a 9" screen is a luxury on "cell comm devices" except, possibly, the iPad (??). Don't have one, don't want one; my notebook PC is now too small for me and it's twice that display size.

1 step forward, how many back? Ahhh, the progression of gadgetry as opposed to useful tech...

But to keep from having to vote myself OT, I'll say this: I don't take personal phone calls nor do I text nor do I even use my personal eMail on a client's time, especially but not exclusively on my clients' machines. It is a MORAL issue, not a technological one.

Also, your items 5 & 6 appear reversed to me: the telephone (your 6) far preceded texting (your 5),

Yes - that's my point - texting seems to logically fit before the telephone, not after. So, why the big fascination with something that seems so archaic?

I think that the telegraph could be considered texting

Yep - if the telephone had been invented after email, we would all have said - "what a wonderful invention, now we can actually talk to each other."

I do text at work, and on a company cell phone as well. But I doubt "Golf this weekend?" "yes, when?" will get me in trouble. I don't put anything I want kept private in writing on my employers phone or email account.

I think the idea that any written electronic communication is private ludicrous. That otherwise intelligent people believe that is just sad. A written record will come out eventually.

Some good may come of stories like this police officer's. We may see a return to more face to face communication and human contact!

If some party is paying for your time and you spend that time gossiping, surfing the net or texting (non work related)- then you are stealing - pure and simple.