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Rage Against Suburban Zombie-ism Monday, April 25, 2011  Technology Abuse At The Polls!(& Everywhere Else) I finally got it over with. Today, I went to the advance polling station to exercise my civic duty of voting. I didn't want to deal with the queue, "forgetfulness", or mere procrastination come election day, Monday, May 2nd. Anyway, as I followed the yellow Elections Canada signs, they led to a greeting desk. Behind the desk sat a girl...who was texting. Briefly, she lifted her head from her cell phone, asked me if I had my voter information card, directed me into the room, and promptly went back to her texting. Umm...okay. Then, while waiting for my ID/voter card to be checked, a cell phone rang. Eventually, another Elections Canada Worker, a person whose job it is to check ID/cards, picked up her phone, and then promptly left the room to continue her conversation. After I finished voting, on my way out, I overheard her conversation, and it wasn't about a family matter, but a friend's Facebook wall activity. Huh? Am I missing something here? You get $100/day to sit there to do a boring task. Accept your fate, bring a book/magazine to flip through while considering yourself lucky for your additional income. Texting and chatting on a cell phone about Facebook is completely inappropriate - not to mention that it's being done on tax payers dime! (And isn't this misuse of technology violating some sort of privacy issue as you're officially working a polling station?) Am I just old-fashioned or is texting/mindless cell phone babbling now part of societal norms? If so, where was I when this happened, living under a rock? I think I want to return to that rock right 'bout now. Labels: cell phone texting inappropriate use technology voting poll stations Elections Canada posted by Stephania at 8:15 pm |
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