Gee,

The way I see it.... we should be thankful we are employed at this wonderful financial time in our history.

Nuff said about that.

Any employer has the right and obligation to be assured its employees are doing what they say they are.

Monitoring of employees activity is not new, I will speak here of our profession only.

Manufacturing plants have monitored employees and productivity since the beginning of the modern age.

Auditing has been around for years, in many forms.

The now generations loves it's gadgets, cellular communications, I pod, etc. This is progress and efficiency. I love the gadgets as well.

We need to live with its side effects.

My generation was lucky to have a dime to call in to the office; we had to use the new leading technology of the era "The Watts line", now known as 800 lines.

Guess what the watts did?.(As well as the current Toll free system does)... It logged the originating place of call, time and phone # of the originating call.

We were tracked and audited back in the day before, beepers, digital pagers, cell phones, I pods, GPS, vans with power steering, AC, seatbelts or even an AM radio.... etc....etc.

Our employer's monitored where we were and what we did, to track our profitability and efficiency. It is an employer's duty and right

It just took a lot more effort and time back then.

Oh yes we had to walk to work both way uphill in the snow as well.

For the "Madonna's of Road Service" in this discussion I would like to suggest this.

Take your life savings and open your own independent service business, take on a line of product, hire people to work for you.

It may change your mind about monitoring.

It will definitely change your mind about an employer.

Nuff said, this thread needs to die.

Doc