"Get a Life, People!"

BusinessWeek’s “Managing” section has a story this week that brought to mind the quote from the classic William Shatner appearance on SNL. Apparently if PriceWaterhouseCoopers employees log onto company email over the weekend, they get a pop-up message that reminds them to, in essence, get a life. (The message mysteriously disappeared during tax season.)

Sounds good to me! Every year I seek a more distant locale for vacation. Next stop: Easter Island, billed as the most remote inhabited island on earth, but even that has a plethora of Internet cafes and cable TV. I haven’t yet figured out the cell phone coverage, but in dire straits a message in a bottle works… eventually. I guess the only place you can unplug these days is MTV.