09-17-2008, 03:37 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 327
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Some People Are Simply Idiotic
When I switched from the old RIM pagers to Windows Mobile devices for the regional managers of a company I previsously worked for, I was bombarded by complaints by the managers because the Windows Mobile device (back then an SX66) was too difficult to send messages with when driving. I basically looked at them like they were completely nuts, and told them not to send messages when driving.
This did not end the complaints, and the COO then came to me and presented the same complaint. I then showed him several articles about people who had died in car wrecks while texting, and also explained to him that texting while driving is illegal (as is anything that distracts you from paying attention to the road). They all shut up about it at that point.
About 6 months later the CFO of the company comes in and tells me he was driving to work and had to go around a car stopped in the middle of an intersection with several people honking their horns at the driver of the stopped car. As he passed the driver he noticed it was one of our regional managers sending a text message.
At this point I sent out a memo informing the company how dangerous this is and that conducting company business in an unsafe manner was against company policy. I left the company soon afterward.
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