Blackberry Zombies

As I walk around downtown, ride the elevator in my office building, or sit at a restaurant at lunchtime, I see business people using their Blackberries. A Blackberry is a marvel of modern efficiency. With it you can stay in constant contact with your office at all hours of the day. The Blackberry device let’s you read email, check your calendar, and much more wirelessly. No matter where you go, you’re tethered to work.

I see office dwellers and cube monkeys alike walking around like zombies glued to their Blackberry device. I guess that’s how it got the name “crackberry”. Instead of enjoying their temporary reprieve from work, they are like addicts getting their “fix”. Can’t the email wait? What is so damn important that you can't wait 15 minutes until you get back to your desk?

If you have a Blackberry you can no longer use the excuse, “I wasn’t at my desk and therefore didn’t get your email.” If you have a Blackberry, everyone knows it and expects an immediate response no matter where you are or what you are doing. Bad case of diarrhea? If that Blackberry goes off when you're on the cayou better get that email. Damn the runs!

I don’t have a Blackberry nor do I want one. When I’m outside the office building, in the bathroom or at home, I want to be left alone. If someone sends me an email, it will need to wait. I’m not picking on Blackberry but it is just another technology that let’s us stay work-a-holics. We monkeys were made to work but we were also made to play, love, enjoy leisure time and much more. A monkey who works too much becomes one of those monkeys who gets angry and starts throwing shit at everyone.