Cyber Monday
4.6 Million Visitors a Minute
“Cyber Monday” is a new phenomenon going hand in hand with Black Friday.
CNN Money reported that by 2 PM Eastern Time, more than 300 retailing Web sites tracked by Internet monitoring firm Akamai were drawing 4.6 million visitors per minute. Major retailers said that Internet traffic was up more than 80 percent compared to a normal Monday.
Why Monday?
The irony here is that Monday is when a lot of people return to “work” after a four-day Thanksgiving food fest. One might think that a lot of work might be waiting to be done on that Monday, and it is an appalling thought that so many people “shop” while supposedly working. It was estimated that 72 million people would shop sometime during that day.
“Web Surfing” during work hours has become far too commonplace. Have you ever noticed that most workplace computers cannot be seen by passers by? I say, “Turn things around” so that managers can see what their employees are doing on line while “working”, or would that be “micro-managing”?
November 27th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Web Surfing at work??? Who Me?
Hey Ron, where were you when you posted this on your blog? At work?
November 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Hey Texas Lady; I was where I always am; AT WORK!
November 28th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Ron has it nailed here. Work at work and play with the computer on your own time. Web Surfing on the job amounts to the same as taking money from the register. Time is money.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
To Burt: My bosses spend half of their day sitting on their duffs and surfing the net. Who’s the thief anyway?
January 8th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Yep - I think you are right on again..