What are conditions like where you work?

[Papa Deuce]

I'm talking about stuff like things not being broken, in good shape. Are supplies available? Do phones all work?...

My building is being totally renovated but for now, and the last 12 years it has been an absolute pit.

If a chair breaks we wait weeks until somebody buys a new one. Lots of phones just do not work. We work in the basement, where people start coughing within an hour of coming to work ( the company swears that they meet OSHA requirements, and says that they even had tests done, but they won't show us the results. I know that we could push this issue ).

Sometimes we can't even find pens to write with!

And the main equipment that is what makes our money for us is now nearly 40 years old. We are always finding ways to "make it work".

Oh, and our toilet in the men's room is always leaking on to the floor.

How is it where you work?

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Current job; pretty bad.

New job; excellent (according to the two people I know who currently work there and love it)

 

[Missy1961]

Very good. We work in a really nice building in midtown Manhattan. Our whole department got new computers last year. Our phones are in great shape. We have all the supplies we need. The bathrooms are clean and always well stocked with supplies. We have refrigerators, microwaves, a toaster, some toaster ovens so we can bring our lunch, etc.

 

[orangeblossom]

We sometimes have a leak from our ceiling (air conditioning ducts) and we have pink slime up there, whatever that is. I'm wondering if that's responsible for the lump I've had in my throat for months (especially since it went away once they cleaned out that area.)

 

[jajuan]

Messy, kid stuff everywhere, shopping bags and the DIS on the computer all the time. I am lucky enough to work out of my home, but I need to work on keeping my working conditions under control...lol.

 

[Pooh67_68]

How is it where you work?

The best I ever had. I am a stay at home wife now.

 

[KIRSTIN'S MOMMY]

It's o.k. I am a cake decorator so I work in a bakery which is always messy, but that's part of the job. Also, the owners of the place are very good friends of mine, one of the owners is the other cake decorator, and I'd have to say that she's probably my best friend. We get to eat what we want, sometimes the owners buy lunch for everyone, and if not, there's always lunch meat and stuff in the fridge for anyone to help themselves. We watch t.v., surf the net occasionally, listen to the radio, and laugh a lot.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Oh, and the VAST majority of our computers still run Windows 95, on 486 machines!

One microwave that the employees bought. 3 refrigerators for about 200 people over 3 shifts.

No ovens.

And 100% flouescent lighting. No windows on my floor, as I work in the basement.

But we do have company supplied coffee.

 

[LoraJ]

Currently, it's in decent shape. Hasn't had a renovation in over ten years. A lot of the equipment is breaking down and no one really cares because we are moving to a new facility in a couple of months.

The worst is the bathrooms. I just can't get over the way some of my co-workers behave in the bathroom. Disgusting. Someone even smokes in there. Ugh!

At least at the new facility, the bathrooms are constantly cleaned.

 

[Micca]

We have some state-of-the-art stuff, and we don't have any problems with phones, office supplies,etc. Our problem is our building was expanded about 4 years ago, and the air conditioning/heating is a joke in the new section of the building.

 

[bajanswife]

Wow, my office is actually pretty good compared to yours, and will be even better when the last 2 phone extensions finally get put in (it's only been months ...).

Let's see .... newly built office space, fridge, microwave, tea, coffee and drinking chocolate for 4 people, I share a bathroom with 1 other woman (and she's only 3 days a week), I have my own office with a window, I can control my own a/c (it's not central in my office), I have music piped in and I can control the volume, we have Pentiums with Windows 2000 Office and up to date accounting software, internet access (but not as fast as I'd like) and e-mail.

Because it's so new we haven't quite settled in yet - more furniture and partitions are due, and once they arrive we then need to make decisions about plants and artwork. It's going to look really nice when it's done!

I'm lucky - my office is fairly nice.

 

[phillybeth]

Until we moved, bad. No air circulation, lots of dust and janitorial service was noexistant. Now that we have moved to a new facility, it's like going from a third-world country to the Ritz.

 

[Ronda93]

Very nice. All the comforts... fridge, microwave, coffee. They stock hot chocolate, tea and for some reason, chicken broth. Sodas are a quarter (cans). Cafeteria downstairs has a great salad bar.

Everything works and it smells nice.

 

[4greatboys]

Its grueling here. These darn kids wont even let me go to the bathroom in private

 

[tevagirl]

I work in a hospital and the department I'm in now is okay. But...a few years ago I remember being up on one of the nursing floors and someone was yelling "Has anyone seen 'the' pencil?" Not 'a' pencil, 'The' pencil. We could never keep supplies up there.

 

[helenabear]

Considering we did an exchange around the holidays and made it for office supplies, I am sure you can guess how it is
We can't even find/get toner half the time for the printer, and if we want our computers fixed it is easier and quicker to do it ourselves.

Oh no working coffee makers either...

yeah, it's great here

 

[oogieboogie]

I can't say for the entire building, but my department is pretty nice. Each employee has their own cubicle/office with high walls and sometimes doors. Each cubicle has a little window so you can see the outside hallways.

We have our own kitchen with a fridge, 2 microwaves, an industrial coffee maker, and real plates, bowls, silverware, glasses, mugs, etc. People just bring in their old sets and we have plenty of real china so we don't use paper plates.

Everyone in the department either runs Windows 2000 or XP. The data people (the ones crunching data) get high end PCs that are 3.0ghz on XP. We have 2 fax machines, a copier/printer and each person has their own printer.

Supplies are well stocked and if anyone needed supplies not on the corporate list, we can order or go buy it ourselves and get reimbursed. Each person in my department has their own corporate card.

Now, that's in my department. I can't say for other departments, but overall the company is great to work for. I don't think there's a department/division that lacks the necessary items needed for working.

 

[Honu]

I work in Silicon Valley and, granted, it's not the real world.

The office looks like a movie set. Marble, glass, chrome and birdseye maple, very nice. We get all the techie gear, have Starbuck and Peets coffee, lunch catered everyday, breakfast on Fridays & an onsite gym. You know why we have all that cool stuff? It's so we don't complain so much about the chains around our ankles. Most people I work with spend their life in the office.

 

[Cindy B]

The school I work in is as old as I am. Lets see, theres two fridges for over 200 people, leaking ceiling tiles, old toilets, one adult bathroom in the entire school for each sex...

Dont get me started on lockers, desks, books, supplies, and other stuff. The lockers don't lock, the desks are ancient, and the books the students use were new in 1992. The copy machine works about one/two days a week.

 

[jensenba]

I just love where I work. I my office building is only 2 years old has a full kitchen (everything working) I have a couch 2 computers (one with DIS on constantly) a TV DVR DVD VHS 3 bathrooms 4 bedrooms..... Yeah I work at home too. I love it.