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.
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.
Telemarketer eh! Suck it up!
I’d just ask what’s up with the slum conditions. If you’ve already taken the job I’d wait a few weeks until there’s some rapport with your boss.
Meanwhile I wouldn’t make repairs or do anything out of the norm.
I take it you’re confident these people who don’t pay to provide a decent work environment are legit so maybe there’s some reasonable explanation, Though the only one I can think of is that they’re moving soon or their janitor just quit.
>> Great project! Interesting work! Nice people! But the office environment is the pits.
Could be a sign of a well-run company that purposely spends as little as possible on overhead so they can grow the business (and hopefully take care of the employees). I worked for such a company once. It paid off VERY well.
On the other hand, it could be a sign of a company in trouble, or owner/management with a “squeeze everything and everybody”.
Tell you what — if they pull any shenanigans come payday, I wouldn’t cut them much slack. If any.
Just my 2c worth.
You may be working for slobs, or a company too broke to redecorate. Maybe management is planning a move to new offices so why fix up the old dump. Perhaps management prefers to give generous raises & bonuses vs. buying carpet & painting. Or perhaps they only enrich themselves at your expense.
Every person has his/her limits.
Mine was a self obsessed, sadist of a boss that insisted on my listening to motivational tapes in my free time - instructions he violated with his every utterance. You know you are in deep doodoo when, after excusing yourself to the restroom, he follows & stands outside the stall & pontificates. At that point I would have gladly swapped my job for a nice boss with an outhouse for facilities. The day I told him to stick the job up his @$$ lifted a huge burden from my life.
I recently got a job that I love and is the best job I’ve ever had. It’s in a building built in the 1920s. The temperature is never comfortable. They’re doing renovations, so it’s loud and smelly. The bathroom is barely lit and isn’t restocked as often as it should be. My male co-workers often complain of the smell in their restroom and similar stocking situations. BUT, the people are great, the work is great, and that makes the rest bearable. We just “grin and bear it”. It certainly beats other jobs I’ve had where the facilities were fantastic but the work/managers were horrible.