5. I counted four kinds of chairs in the “conference room” that doubles as the lunch room.no need to go any further, that alone is enough to look for another job...
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.
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.
Ick...
You have two choices, either suck it up or move on. You’ve been around the track. Some of the best work I’ve ever done were in some of the worst environments.
Best job was plant engineer in a trash burning steam/co-gen facility. Nice people, average pay, good bennies, dirt poor town in the middle of nowhere. Stayed for 14 years.
Worst was in small company, beautiful offices, ideal location. The people were obnoxious and the work was not what I signed on for. 12 months and out.
5. I counted four kinds of chairs in the “conference room” that doubles as the lunch room.no need to go any further, that alone is enough to look for another job...
I would consider the items you listed as opportunities to establish yourself as a very valued employee. Once you get settled a little bit why not volunteer to fix up some of the issues? If you don't know how find somebody at the company who can do the work.
Talk to the managers about some fix-up work done by the employees. It sounds like a Saturday spent with some paint and cleanup tools could make a significant improvement.
You could round up a bunch of new chairs on the cheap too.
Sometimes everybody just needs a new idea, like "would anybody else like to help paint the work room?"
Do you have your own works space?
Start there.
Clean up what you can in your spot, make it as presentable as possible, and maybe others will notice and work on their own as well.
Shabby is one thing. Dirt is another.
Maybe some duct tape over the hole in the floor. It probably won’t help with sound transmission, but does give visual privacy.
Sounds yuk the main concerns being the mold and the hole in the toilet - mention them to others in passing see if any have tried before!
That’s your complaint? Keep your mouth shut.
Suck it up. It sounds like you worked at Disneyland for 40 years.