DrBouvenstein posted:

The company I'm contacted for also does not provide free coffee, though there is a cafeteria with a vendor-run kitchen (well, was in pre-COVID) so it's entirely possible that part of their contract was that only THEY can have coffee, or something?

Though every floor has 1 or 2 kitchenettes with a microwave or two, fridge, and a Keurig, so anyone was free to bring their own K-Cups, and at least a couple departments (usually the "nice/fancy" ones like Sales and Marketing) would always have those large Costco boxes of Kirkland K-Cups for their team.

But in the same vein as "penny-wise, pound-foolish," our department had to send multiple emails and calls to various managers before they FINALLY approved us buying two new plastic carts for wheeling around equipment, since over the course of a few years the small, cruddy ones we already had kept breaking more and more. One literally had a wheel fall off while carrying some monitors and broke two $150+ high def monitors, and each of these new carts was a whopping $125.

Now I'm currently in the process of killdisking and throwing away into an e-waste bin laptops that are maybe 2.5 to 3 years old. Good laptops that run $400-$600 used on eBay and Amazon. But the managers/higher ups who got them don't want them anymore and want new ones.

Pretty much everyone on our team that wanted to has taken more than a couple to keep or sell (according to my post history, I've sold at least 9 here on SA Mart alone (though not all of them the $400-$600 models,) nevermind local and eBay). They donated some to some non-profits, but decided the effort to buy non-profit licenses of windows and then have us install and QA them before donating wasn't worth it, so into the e-waste bin (my car) they go.

Greader posted:

Crazy stories about poop and piss reminded me during my apprenticeship I worked at a warehouse with office space adjacent. The system had a internal mailing and notification system and one day someone send a mail to everyone. The reason: Someone took a dump, and instead of using toilet paper or anything else, they took the towel of the nearby sink, wiped their rear end with it, and put it back where it was. The writer of the mail was the one to find it first and they in lovingly detail described what they found and how disgusted they were by it.

Of course, this was the same toilet where eventually signs were hung on how to properly sit and poop as some people had trouble not missing with it somehow. The worst part is that amongst my fellow apprentices there were at least two who I would trust to do that kinda crap Don't think they ever found out who was responsible.

Dr.Smasher posted:

When I worked in an office for a multinational plumbing supply company, they wouldn't even spring for salt and pepper in the lunch area of their new million dollar Gensler-designed office. You want condiments and seasoning? Pay for it yourself or get hosed.

Saalkin posted:

Not until I get 10 emails

Steakandchips posted:

You're doing the right thing, re-use them by selling them on ebay. Better for the environment, better for you too.

wooger posted:

It is very much industry dependent I think.

Media & Finance and “cool” tech companies tend to have laughably generous kitchens and free stuff and proper coffee.

Regardless of profitability honestly.

Old fashioned companies are cheap, a former employer of mine, new media adjacent, was cheap enough to:

TacticalHoodie posted:

Are they using clipart and word art to really how much they appreciate you?

Hyrax Attack! posted:

My not-great teammates have gone the other direction, and despite being aware this person is swamped have begun implying in meetings that their updates are being delayed because this person is playing favorites or not working hard enough.

lamb posted:

My job, a company of over 30,000 people, uses Lotus Notes.

teen witch posted:

Lmao similar hat and people getting LIVID that I’m not answering at 3am IT IS AN EMERGENCY

Forget the fact that my signature, where they got my number from, also contains the country code and address

Riatsala posted:

This is a slightly esoteric complaint but I'm paring down a GIS database to only entries that we need for a certain project. There's two general ways of doing this: make definition queries to exclude categories you don't want or copying the database and using a combination of manual and categorical deletions to carve away everything you don't want. I'm fine with either depending on the complexity of the data extraction, but my boss feels strongly that definition queries are the only way of doing things. So I've got to create a gigantic list of SQL statements to define what the data should be rather than just... deleting what shouldn't be there.

If that's confusing, imagine you're a stone carver and you need to make a sculpts out of a cube shaped blocks. Sometimes you sculpt a wedge, sometimes a pyramid, shapes that are easy to define and carve with planar cuts using your stone saw.

Imagine now, though, that today you have to carve a bowl of fruit out of the block... but your boss won't let you use a chisel. No, you still have to use your stone saw, even if it would take 100,000 intricate, time consuming cuts. That's what I'm doing with this database right now.

Lazyfire posted:

With the two Megacorps I've worked for I think the issue has been their food service provider. They both use the same one and both had a pay-for-coffee policy. Both places had people raise money to get Keurigs to put in the break room/kitchenette, which was just sad.

I can one-up the coffee thing, though. When I started my previous job they had a water cooler in the break area and when the manager giving us new hires a tour of the office came across this he said "If you want to join the water club, it's two dollars a week." You could either pay to get watercooler water or you could use the city water that came out of the taps and tasted terrible. I had never seen that level of cheapness from a company in my life and I think it was a scam run by the woman who collected the dues of water club members. The water provider clearly had a contract with the company as they had passes to get into the building and could move around unsupervised, so I have no idea how or why people were paying for this.

About two years after I started our team moved to a new building with wall mounted filtered water dispensers. The woman who ran the water club in our old office was furious about this and sent out an all group (250 people at the time) e-mail stating she was reestablishing the water club in case anyone wanted "real filtered water" again. I can't think of a single person I knew who signed up for that.

AHH F/UGH posted:

Another one of the department heads at my job got COVID, the second time in maybe one month.

I'm fairly certain they're only emailing us when the department heads get it, not anyone else. Possibly because all others are not actually telling HR.

They're advising everyone who was around him for "15 cumulative minutes unmasked, or 24 hours total" to go get tested and quarantine. This dude has probably been spewing COVID air all over his entire department for days and days.

Basically my office is a hot zone and I really do not want to ever go in there again. lmao

Trapick posted:

There's a post on our intranet about employee appreciation day. Really makes me feel needed. Could have offered an additional day off or something, but this is great.

I'm convinced that any executive who suggests getting rid of coffee or other similar bullshit cost cutting should immediately be fired, that'd save more and be much better for morale.

A Strange Aeon posted:

titty_baby_ posted:

I said I would work random events if they gave us proper notice ahead of time (they never do, its always week of) and boss said they're working to have a calendar for planning these things. Hes said this for months and still never tells us anything until a week or two before, putting all the planning responsibilities on the coordinator, who then tries to delegate but fails because I dodge (and events are usually funded by another source that im not allowed to allocate from) and other employees ignore.

Play posted:

Dodging and ignoring are the two cornerstones of a successful career.

Play posted:

Also the only loving appreciation I'm interested in is more money. That's how you appreciate me

Play posted:

Also the only loving appreciation I'm interested in is more money. That's how you appreciate me

Play posted:

Also the only loving appreciation I'm interested in is more money. That's how you appreciate me

Outrail posted:

'We are engaged in a mercantile arrangement. My time for your money. Anything beyond this simple agreement is nothing less than a forced unilateral negotiation.'

To those of you dealing with timezone poo poo; have you tried waiting until your working hours and replying back while they're asleep? And then several 'Did you get this email? I need a response' followups over the next few hours?

Outrail posted:

To those of you dealing with timezone poo poo; have you tried waiting until your working hours and replying back while they're asleep? And then several 'Did you get this email? I need a response' followups over the next few hours?

Volmarias posted:

Explain your Robosexual av and the history behind it. Ensure she knows exactly why you wanted us to pity gently caress a morose and spiteful robot.