---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190509000441.GA16559@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 00:04:41 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Protecting Call Center Jobs in Colorado and Maine CWAers across the country continue to make progress on passing legislation to protect call center jobs from offshoring! Here are the new updates on CWA members' hard work to pass this critical legislation ... https://cwa-union.org/news/protecting-call-center-jobs-in-colorado-and-maine -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190509000742.GA16626@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 00:07:42 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Midwest, AT&T Legacy T, and AT&T Southeast Bargaining Update This week, CWA members at AT&T across the country continued to meet with members of Congress dropping off handwritten letters urging them to investigate AT&T and other companies about their broken promises for higher wages and more jobs if the GOP corporate tax cut bill passed. https://cwa-union.org/news/bargaining-update-134 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <D326D469-A225-4F88-B254-8DAB33F29D88@roscom.com> Date: 9 May 2019 08:57:54 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," the philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, in 1654. According to Screen Time, a recent addition to the iPhone's operating system that purports to help users deal with the addiction to screens which the iPhone is designed to foster, my typical daily phone activity includes ninety minutes of texting, one hour of reading, another hour of e-mail, yet another hour of social media, and about seventy "pickups," meaning that I check my phone about four times per hour. I carry my phone around with me as if it were an oxygen tank. I stare at it while I make breakfast and take out the recycling, ruining what I prize most about working from home - the sense of control, the relative peace. I have tried all sorts of things to look at screens less often: I don't get push notifications or use Facebook or watch Instagram stories; on my home computer, I have installed a browser plug-in called StayFocusd, which turns off Twitter after forty-five minutes of daily use. On my phone, I use an app called Freedom to block social media for much of the workday. If any of my digital chastity belts malfunction, I start scrolling like a junkie, pulling myself away just long enough to send frantic e-mails to the apps' customer service with subject lines like "Freedom not working!" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/29/what-it-takes-to-put-your-phone-away ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 10 May 2019