The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit defines ‘Panic Button’ as a location on a website that contains a link to another, less controversial site, or a fake screen showing an Excel sheet; used as an escape hatch by those who surf NSFW websites (ones that contain nudity) or look for jobs on company time.
Oh my… this really made me laugh because even I (a CEO) have a panic button (of sorts). Now, I am certainly NOT on NSFW sites or looking for a job, but I do visit a few sites every day, during work hours, that have nothing ‘really’ to do with work.
I justify it that I’m not a smoker so I don’t waste time with smoking breaks, I am not a ‘huge’ gossiper so I don’t waste a lot of time with that, I work long focused hard hours (typically 12 hours a day), and then a lot of times attend after office work-related functions), and actually I get a lot of work done (I nonstop create it and then pile it onto my never-ending to-do lists, and then do it).
But still, I do quite ‘panic’ when anyone enters my office and I am glancing at news, networking or ‘other’ sites, for those 5 minutes of mental break time between my projects. I tend to ‘smoothly’ react by grabbing my mouse and as fast as I can and then with incredible force, click on my inbox (my preferred panic button). Occasionally papers go flying.
I also know that a lot of you reading this do this too!
You can say that, oh… well… I read the business news for work, -but then the business news leads to clicking on the main news and before you know it you are quickly getting updated on how some crazy lady just gave birth to 20 babies or how a monkey just bit off somebody’s leg. Not really work related?
My advice is to keep it to an absolute minimum (because companies must be highly productive right now in order to survive and grow, so that the market picks up faster), and whatever you do, don’t get caught!
Tags : a link, less controversial site, website, веб-сайт, сомнительный сайт, ссылка
Хорошая новость! Благодарю! Буду следить за обновлениями!
отлично!!! Все супер!
А Вы не задумывались о том, чтобы параллельно завести еще один блог, на смежную тему? У Вас неплохо получается
По большому счёту я с вами согласен. Просто некоторым кажется, что им обязательно надо чем-то выделиться из общей массы. А чем выделяться, это уже не важно.
Админ. Хотелось бы поговорить насчёт рекламы в вашем блоге. Если вы согласны, отпишите ваши условия на e-mail. Благодарю
Это хорошо что вы начали вести блог,ведь у вас это отлично получается и надеюсь будет еще лучше. Главное писать о том,в чем вы разбираетесь. Удачи.
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Great work, well researched
I rarely comment on blogs but yours I had to stop and say Great Blog!!
It is paradoxical how staying abreast of business news in the office is ‘ok’ (occasionally!) via the Internet, but perhaps less acceptable via traditional print media. I used to work with a guy, a ‘traditionalist’, who preferred to follow the economic action via broadsheets.
Sadly there is yet to be invented a ‘panic button’ for newspapers, (perhaps, in retrospect, this may prove to be part of their evolutionary downfall?) thus he did not have the slick, and undetectable escape route of ‘Alt-f4’, or switching to his inbox. Instead, when ‘caught out’, he would present the undignified spectacle of desperately wrestling with flailing pages of paper, like a drunk at an origami contest. Several minutes later, he would eventually subdue the errant newspaper, and stuff it ungraciously beneath his desk.
Naturally, this frequent performance made something of an impression on his co-workers! One can also imagine the perception the team had after walking past his glass walled office, to see a senior manager casually sitting about reading the paper, whilst ‘the workers’ toiled away outside in open plan…
Personally, I find the Internet at work, and excessive intra-company e-mail (my bête noire) potentially poisonous distractions. I would encourage all managers to try leaving their computers at home for the day now and again. It is interesting how much it forces one out of the office, and face to face with one’s teams or clients, which can never be a bad thing!
“Use it, but not abuse it” should be the key for non-work-related sites. Many companies in UK (as I heard from a friend of mine) only allow access to such sites during lunch breaks. Which might be a reasonable idea:)
Funny, how almost every concept has a name in the English language. Some of those names are then borrowed by speakers of other languages. In Russian, for instance, we now have words like ‘гаджет’, ‘апдейт’, ‘юзер френдли’, ‘забукировать’, ‘пропиарить’, ‘ребрендинг’, ‘эккаунт’, ‘дьюти фри’… Now, I guess, it’s time for ‘пэник баттон’
The best example of this that I saw many years ago was a chess game. When you hit the panic button, up came an impressive excel spreadsheet
Интересная статья. Прочитав ее я тоже задумался о своей “аварийной кнопке”. Есть ли она у меня? Действительно есть. Конечно, важно чтобы каждый сотрудник компании понимал, что сейчас нет возможности тратить рабочее время на посещение не относящихся к работе сайтов. От работы каждого сотрудника в отдельности сейчас зависит будущее компании в целом. Ведь как приятно будет после улучшения экономической ситуации, во время пятиминутных отдыхов, прочитать новости о развитии своей компании.
Ok, Teri, I’ve got your hint:)
Idris