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1. Michael Rogers

   

   2 posts
   
   8/25/2014 5:08 AM

   Hi,
   
   My crew are losing time with wazups etc and I was wondering if any of you ban cell phones, have certain rules????????????????????' like no internet connected?? What can I do please, don´t want to resort to radios????
   
   The roughs and strimming are suffering as we have numerous extraordinary works in progress.
   
   Thanks Michael
   
   Michael Rogers
   Director of Operations
   Marbella Golf Country Club

   
   
   
   
2. Anthony Nysse

   

   1 posts
   
   8/25/2014 5:08 AM

   Tell them to keep them in their lockers and theyre only allowed to use them at lunch or on break.

   
   
   
   
3. Justin VanLanduit

   

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   8/27/2014 5:08 AM

   I let my guys know it's a privilege and not a right. If I catch them messing with their phones on the course I will usually give a verbal warning, then next time all employees are not allowed to have their phones. It is nice to be able to call them if needed but I would gladly take the extra time to drive to find them vs giving them the ability to play candy crush or texting their buddies when they should be working.
   Usually the one warning will do as they don't want to be that guy to have the privilege taken away from everyone. Do the same with headphones.
   
   Justin

   
   
   
   
4. Wahlin Scott B

   
   8/27/2014 4:08 PM

   I had a number of instances where the crew used their personal phones to call 911 for a golfer.

   
   
   
   
5. Clay Putnam

   

   33 posts
   
   8/27/2014 11:08 PM

   What if you have your cell phone in your pocket while you come across someone, mmm, say struggling in a lake. You jump in and pull him from certain death. And of course it's not an easy rescue cause, of course the victim has a death grip on the steering wheel. At any rate, you save the guy but your cell phone is toast from being in the water. Does the golf course pony up for a new phone or is the good samaritan left, wait for it, high and dry?

   
   
   
   
6. James Smith

   

   112 posts
   
   8/30/2014 7:08 AM

   I presently allow cell phones and find the ability to text guys things needing to be done is a great asset. I still have to remind them of our rules and I have had to make an employee hand in his phone to me every day for a week in order to get him to stop using it all of the time. That seemed to work but using the threat of everyone losing the privilages is also a great motovator also.

   
   
   
   
7. Heath Koch

   

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   11/21/2014 10:11 AM

   Clay ..you cant be serious ..what a silly response to a real question ..why waste your time ..man.
   Pretty sure that wouldn't be the focus.

   
   
   
   
8. Larry Allan

   

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   11/21/2014 2:11 PM

   Clay Putnam, CGCS said: What if you have your cell phone in your pocket while you come across someone, mmm, say struggling in a lake. You jump in and pull him from certain death. And of course it's not an easy rescue cause, of course the victim has a death grip on the steering wheel. At any rate, you save the guy but your cell phone is toast from being in the water. Does the golf course pony up for a new phone or is the good samaritan left, wait for it, high and dry?

   
   Read a great book, I think was called Death Grip. It is apparently a real phenomenon. But in the story it was a mob hit where they crazy glued a guys hands to the steering wheel while he was alive and push the vehicle off the pier. That lad may have had a cell but little good it did him
   Also knew a lad out sledding on thin ice who was found lake bottom still pinning the throttle. That was well before cell phone times

   
   
   
   
9. Michael Rogers

   

   2 posts
   
   11/24/2014 2:11 PM

   Thanks for some ideas. You don´t need internet on cell phone to call 911. I have my guys ring me and hang up and I call them back or most of them have enough free minutes for calls because they do soooooooo much by wazup.
   
   Larry, you leave me speechless as usual. I was in Reggio Calabria for vacation in September. Safest place ever, people leave keys in ignition and windows open. Everything is family style and no one messes around.
   
   Prego MR

   
   
   
   
10. Ronald Conard

    

    4 posts
    
    11/25/2014 8:11 AM

    Clay Putnam, CGCS said: What if you have your cell phone in your pocket while you come across someone, mmm, say struggling in a lake. You jump in and pull him from certain death. And of course it's not an easy rescue cause, of course the victim has a death grip on the steering wheel. At any rate, you save the guy but your cell phone is toast from being in the water. Does the golf course pony up for a new phone or is the good samaritan left, wait for it, high and dry?

    
    
    
    Death grip? That's why you dive in shirtless from all the hard days ditch digging and with a Rambo knife clutched in your teeth, remember?

    
    
    
    
11. James Smith

    

    112 posts
    
    12/1/2014 7:12 AM

    Larry Allan said:

    Clay Putnam, CGCS said: What if you have your cell phone in your pocket while you come across someone, mmm, say struggling in a lake. You jump in and pull him from certain death. And of course it's not an easy rescue cause, of course the victim has a death grip on the steering wheel. At any rate, you save the guy but your cell phone is toast from being in the water. Does the golf course pony up for a new phone or is the good samaritan left, wait for it, high and dry?

    
    Read a great book, I think was called Death Grip. It is apparently a real phenomenon. But in the story it was a mob hit where they crazy glued a guys hands to the steering wheel while he was alive and push the vehicle off the pier. That lad may have had a cell but little good it did him
    Also knew a lad out sledding on thin ice who was found lake bottom still pinning the throttle. That was well before cell phone times

    
    Back in the early 70's we had a Mississippi River Ferry get hit by a ship which ended up flipping the ferry over and sunk it. I remember the divers coming out of the water and telling stories about people that had an iron grip on the railing and how they had to pry their grips loose in order to bring the bodies back to the surface. Death grips are real! One of the survivors on lived because he was riding a motorcycle and kept his helment on which had an air pocket that acted like a life preserver and floated him to the surface.