This could be why no one answers the help line!

[gunug]

According to a Harris poll around half of all IT workers admit to sleeping on the job and 47% have admitted to kissing a coworker on the job:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/62159,about-...-coworkers.aspx

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As for the kissing, only hospitality workers -- 53 percent -- were more lovely-dovey with coworkers than IT workers. Across all professions, only 39 percent of respondents confessed kissing a colleague.

When it comes to on-the-job partying, one-in-four IT workers -- the same as the average across all professions -- say they've consumed alcohol while on the job. So what's going on? Careerbuilder.com career advisor Tanya Flynn says the number of workers admitting to committing workplace taboos, especially sleeping, kissing, and drinking on the job, has been rising since the company began the annual poll three years ago.

In the words of the immortal Steve Miller: "Lovey-Dovey All the Time!"  

[Gregg]

QUOTE(gunug @ Sep 28 2007, 08:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

According to a Harris poll around half of all IT workers admit to sleeping on the job and 47% have admitted to kissing a coworker on the job:

Maybe some of them were confused by a KISS poster or a K.I.S.S. bumper sticker on the wall just after being aroused, er woken, uh waked up.... whatever!

[tacit]

Not surprising, really. Computer geeks tend, across the board, to be more sexual and more sexually adventurous than a lot of other folks, at least in my experience.

[sandbox]

Where does Harris keep this poll?
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I wonder, if Harris asked this same group if they dream about kissing someone while sleeping on the job, what the results would be?

Asking a question about getting away with something, beating the system, is an easy call.
Asking a question about scoring a kiss while working is beating the system, just as sleeping on the job is.

Would the answers be the same if the techies were not anonymous?
All the Johns said the don't sleep on the job.
All the Bobs said that they sleep under the desk.
All the mary's have little stuffed lambs hidden in the closets to nap with.
All the Bettys are on Crank and couldn't sleep if they wanted to.
Now that would be a real poll.

Why doesn't Harris ask them if they talk to themselves or practice kissing someone in the bathroom mirror? They do, they have, but would they admit it?

Answers derived by polling are no more accurate, in my view, than answers derived by torture, in either case, you just want the session to end.

[gunug]

One of my older co-workers "admitted" dreaming about kissing someone else in the office while sleeping on the job!

[Xairbusdriver]

What if it's the "help line" people that are causing the problems? How does one get further up the chain of command if they block your access?