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A post just a little bit ago about a cell phone policy made me remember this little act of MC that we did back in the early 90s. In the early 90s we didn't have cell phone. We had pagers. Someone would dial a number, punch in their number, and it would beep at you and show what number you were suppose to call back on. They were very useful.
I was working at a company at that time and almost everyone had pagers. It was very useful as if someone wasn't at their desk, they usually had their pager number known to everyone who needed it, so we would just page them.
Well, one of the company executives had watched something on TV about how pagers were being used for drug transactions. He watched the whole TV program and was 100% convinced that everyone walking around the office with pagers was dealing drugs out of the office, which was dumb. So the next day we all get a notice (by paper): No non-company pagers are allowed in the office or used for any company business any more.
Well, the thing was, that the company didn't provide most of the pagers. Most of the pagers had been paid for by us individually and we used them for personal and business reasons. Queue MC.
All of us started leaving our pagers in our car, and when we were off the clock, no longer answered them if we knew it was a work number calling, which was pretty easy to figure out based on the number paged to you. Some of us were in charge of pretty important systems, and if they crashed, it would cause a lot of problems. Well, since we didn't have company provided pagers, and we stopped answering those pages, they had no choice but to leave us messages on our home answering machines.
And wouldn't you know it, amazingly everyone was getting home really late at night, much too late to be able to do anything about the problem while it was impacting business. So two or three times a week some system would have a problem during swing shift, they would try to page us, get no answer, and then they'd leave a message at our homes. And we wouldn't call back until after swing shift had left. So swing shift was just sitting around doing nothing and getting paid for it.
After about 2 weeks of this (we were actually surprised it lasted this long) a notice came out that the new pager policy had been retracted. And it asked that we start answering our pagers after hours again.
Some people played hard ball, and refused, saying it was their personal pagers, and if the company wanted them to answer a pager for company business the company could buy them one. So the company ended up having to buy a ton of pagers and pay for service they didn't have to before because of this.
All in all because the executive had watched a TV program, the company lost 10's of thousands of dollars in production and paying people to stand around, and had to spend 1000's on brand new pagers and service for a bunch of people.
Not so mysteriously, that executive "retired" a few months later.
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