: : : To say that employees are the casue for employer monitoring is absurd. I've worked places where I've had to use a magnetic ID to enter every room.--The minutia of my day can be tracked to the millisecond of entry and exit of different rooms. As some one who has never stolen from work, or sabotaged a company I work for, I fail to see how I am the cause of this monitoring; or for the prevalent video monitoring that you see everywhere from Kinko's to the corporate workplace. -- Can some one tell me what an employee could do at Kinko's that warrants constant video surveylance?

: : : Why, do employers suddenly feel the need to hold employees accountabloe for how many times, and how long they went to the bathroom? It seems we've spent a good deal of the last 100 years trusting, in the very least, our employees to take a pee when and for how long they felt necessary.

: : : : IN THIS AGE OF INSTANT GRATIFICATION AND "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY?" ATTITUDES, THE WORK ETHIC THAT HAS MADE ENTREPRENEURS SUCCESSFUL THROUGHOUT HISTORY IS DYING.

: : : : REMEMBER TED TURNER'S WORDS (PARAPHRASED): " BE THE FIRST ONE TO COME IN, AND THE LAST ONE TO LEAVE, AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU'LL OWN THE BUSINESS."

: : : You're talking about two different things here. There's the entrepenuer or entrepeneurial team that's working a hefty, but reasonable work week. Then your talking about working in an "average" workplace.

: : : For me, the beef, as an employee, does not come from being expected to do my job, it comes from being expected to work unpaid overtime, or to sacrifice my lunch breaks for the ease of schedueling, or being looked at askance when I take my 15 minute breaks. -- A good friend of mine was fired from his high-tech job for refusing to wo... (truncated)