Posted on 11/18/2013 4:50:55 PM PST by Crazy Jim
Working at an insane asylum?
You’re welcome. It’s a good point you raise.
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I had a similar situation. Great work and boss, terrible company and president.
After four months I decided that if I stayed any longer, I’d have to put it on my resume and explain why I only lasted a short time. So I walked.
Your situation might be different.
There will be a five dollar fee, taken out of your paycheck, every time you visit the bathroom.
There will be a five dollar fee, taken out of your paycheck, every time you visit the water cooler.
The doors of this facility will be locked from 8:00 am until 6:00 pm. You are not allowed to enter or leave the building during those times.
Any criticism of the Administration will result in your immediate termination.
You will be required to put in overtime at the discretion of your Supervisor.
Ignore the suicide nets below the upper floors. They are there for your protection.
Enjoy your job!
That’s why it’s called “work”.
As soon as morale improves the beatings will stop... so hang in there what could go wrong?
Jim, I don’t know what your purpose in posting this is but without further information no one here can provide you with any meaningful suggestions (even though some might try).
Great project! Interesting work! Nice people!
BTW I love work! I’ve been working for 40 years.
The list:
1. Hole in the bathroom floor (you can hear the toilet flush next door).
2. Offices in old computer room with dirty carpeted suspended floor.
3. Mold in “front” office.
4. Old, dirty, dingy walls, floors, ceilings, windows, hall, etc.
5. I counted four kinds of chairs in the “conference room” that doubles as the lunch room.
and more...
But the office environment is the pits.
Great project! Interesting work! Nice people!
BTW I love work! I’ve been working for 40 years.
The list:
1. Hole in the bathroom floor (you can hear the toilet flush next door).
2. Offices in old computer room with dirty carpeted suspended floor.
3. Mold in “front” office.
4. Old, dirty, dingy walls, floors, ceilings, windows, hall, etc.
5. I counted four kinds of chairs in the “conference room” that doubles as the lunch room.
and more...
But the office environment is the pits.
I fail to see how anything can be a "dream job" if the working conditions are that bad.
Only one of these can be true, but not both. Cleaning dog kennels can be disgusting but at the end of the day you've improved the dog's living conditions. Sounds to me like you need to go 'big picture' and that you have a dream job. Further, BE GRATEFUL YOU HAVE A JOB.
Yes I always keep that in mind.
That’s the reason to stay.
1. with these real negatives are you sure it really qualifies as a “dream job”?
2. given the environment, are the people truly nice people? does none of the “nice people” there have any power to make the place really better, but they just haven’t ever done so? nice people don’y make others work with health hazards and building code violations, sweat shop owners do.
3. are they really nice people if you fear asking for a bathroom without holes in the stall floor and dealing with a mold issue will label you a troublemaker?
i question these things.
One of my jobs was busing tables and cleaning the kitchen at the end of the day, I made sure everything was clean. I enjoyed that and came home dirty but always feeling an accomplishment from good hard work.
I am extremely grateful I have a job, sense I am willing to go on the road I have many job opportunities, but this job this job is what I want to be doing, where I want to be for my family and where I want to retire. So to have the working conditions so poor, it is just very frustrating.
The work content and the people are 90% of job satisfaction (factoring out pay for the time being). I think that what you are complaining about seems almost trivial.
Jim, it sounds like the people that own the business either don’t have much money, or they have low standards. Basic cleanliness is, well, basic. Maybe you could offer to help clean the place up, and see what they say about it. It could just be that no one has really considered it.
Since I don’t know what kind of business it is, what kind of work is done, I can’t know the answer. But, I know that there are certain types of businesses that are sometimes fairly shoddy in conditions, like, say, a mom and pop auto body shop, machine shop and the like, which can be pretty dirty places. It could just be the nature of the business, but I don’t know.
LOL...
I have working in vaults and closed areas for over 20 years, so I’d give back 10% of my pay for a window AND happily pay your “fees”. ;-)
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