Principal Financial-Remote work

[carvers4math]

Blah blah blah....All I know if that in a month from now, my ass will have to be back in the office 3 days a week.

They conveniently timed that for the uptick in flu and respiratory illnesses season.

They say there is a labor shortage. I would be using at least the time you are saving not commuting looking around at other job openings. The few people I know still working for them don’t like their jobs anyway.

 

[KnappShack]

At one place in Ames I worked you had to hug the owner too. That was beyond weird.

Is this legal?

 

[StormnClone58]

Blah blah blah....All I know if that in a month from now, my ass will have to be back in the office 3 days a week.

I have heard some exceptions have or are being made. Am i correct to assume this doesnt impact you?

 

[pfgemployee]

I have heard some exceptions have or are being made. Am i correct to assume this doesnt impact you?

Correct. I'm not going to lie to not have to come back in the office. From what I've seen, VERY few are getting exceptions. To get an exception, it has to be approved by senior management.

 

[isufbcurt]

Is this legal?

Who knows.

We'd have our quarterly meetings and at the end they announce everyone who had a bday during the quarter or had their company anniversary during the quarter and those people would line up to go give the owner a hug.

 

[pfgemployee]

It kind of reminds me of the place in Des Moines that always portrayed itself as fun place to work. "We have a free keg on Friday night" "We order in free pizza". Listen *****, I have no urge to be working at 7pm on a Friday night for free Michelob Ultra. I think this may have been Business Solver but not 100%. I just looked at their Glassdoor and it looks like at least they allow their employees to work from home.

 

[Bigman38]

I still have great memories of putting all work to the side so the team can awkwardly sing happy birthday! Mostly to a person who doesn't want any part of it.

Then we eat a cake no one wants and hand over the card we were forced to sign.

Whew! Memories! And PIZZA PARTIES!!! It's a party, mother *******!!

I mean that is office teamwork and collaboration at its absolute best.

Worked at a place where they'd bring trashbags full of popcorn onto the floor of ~50 people. Probably like $5 worth of popcorn. But everyone who got popcorn was over there, elbow deep, digging through the bag trying to fill up their cup or whatever, almost gag just thinking about it again.

But still not as demeaning as upper management having their catered lunches and then bringing the leftovers that have been sitting out for an hour or two for the peasants to fight over.

 

[KnappShack]

Who knows.

We'd have our quarterly meetings and at the end they announce everyone who had a bday during the quarter or had their company anniversary during the quarter and those people would line up to go give the owner a hug.

You
Have
Seen
Hell

 

[StormnClone58]

It kind of reminds me of the place in Des Moines that always portrayed itself as fun place to work. "We have a free keg on Friday night" "We order in free pizza". Listen *****, I have no urge to be working at 7pm on a Friday night for free Michelob Ultra.

Businessolver?

 

[Jeremy]

Is this legal?

First we need to ask @CoachHines3 what his motive was for requiring this.

 

[throwittoblythe]

You
Have
Seen
Hell

Some on here will know this: my last job required employees of the same gender to share hotel rooms when travelling for work. I was lucky to never have to actually do it in my 2 years there. I started in 2020 and they had suspended the rule during COVID. Spring of 2022, they reinstated the policy and I quit shortly after that.

What really pissed me off was that they just flat-out lied about the reason. They would say "this is a critical part of our culture" and "you bond more with your co-workers when you share a hotel room than you do in 12 hours on the jobsite."

They had all number of HR issues with the program, but would never relent. Employees having their roommates bring hookers back to the room, people coming back to the room trashed and crawling into the wrong bed, etc. etc.

 

[pfgemployee]

Businessolver?

I think so. I heard a few horror stories.

 

[carvers4math]

It kind of reminds me of the place in Des Moines that always portrayed itself as fun place to work. "We have a free keg on Friday night" "We order in free pizza". Listen *****, I have no urge to be working at 7pm on a Friday night for free Michelob Ultra.

I knew straight up from my first job out of grad school that I was not going to ever drink with anyone from work. We had an office lecher that sexually harassed at least eight of us and probably more women. They never did anything about him except reassign projects away from him if you complained and then stick some new woman working with him. Before the office Christmas party, a woman warned me not to drink anything from an open cup. I just walked around with a closed water bottle in my hand and bolted when regular working hours were over.

 

[cowgirl836]

Some on here will know this: my last job required employees of the same gender to share hotel rooms when travelling for work. I was lucky to never have to actually do it in my 2 years there. I started in 2020 and they had suspended the rule during COVID. Spring of 2022, they reinstated the policy and I quit shortly after that.

What really pissed me off was that they just flat-out lied about the reason. They would say "this is a critical part of our culture" and "you bond more with your co-workers when you share a hotel room than you do in 12 hours on the jobsite."

They had all number of HR issues with the program, but would never relent. Employees having their roommates bring hookers back to the room, people coming back to the room trashed and crawling into the wrong bed, etc. etc.

This still boggles the mind. I can't believe their HR didn't have a collective stroke and quit.

 

[KnappShack]

This still boggles the mind. I can't believe their HR didn't have a collective stroke and quit.

But there's no better team building than "accidentally" seeing a coworker's man ass.

Oh...wait....was that out loud??

 

[CoachHines3]

First we need to ask @CoachHines3 what his motive was for requiring this.

not me

i require my employees to sit under my desk for 3 to 5 minutes a week.

 

[cowgirl836]

I knew straight up from my first job out of grad school that I was not going to ever drink with anyone from work. We had an office lecher that sexually harassed at least eight of us and probably more women. They never did anything about him except reassign projects away from him if you complained and then stick some new woman working with him. Before the office Christmas party, a woman warned me not to drink anything from an open cup. I just walked around with a closed water bottle in my hand and bolted when regular working hours were over.

I knew of very official work events that involved strip clubs and the women who were in attendance being told they could leave then while the "boys" continued the meeting off site.

 

[BACyclone]

First we need to ask @CoachHines3 what his motive was for requiring this.

Come on, we all know the motive

 

[KnappShack]

I knew of very official work events that involved strip clubs and the women who were in attendance being told they could leave then while the "boys" continued the meeting off site.

I've spent most of my career in a stock brokerage and mortgage

None of this surprises me at all. Something as simple golf outing turns into wife banging in the janitor closet.

I've had many folks I've worked with have their names in the NY Times....and not for good stuff.

 

[pfgemployee]

Well sexual harassment is the last thing I worry about at Principal IT. Most of our staff get anxiety from running into a co-worker in the skywalk. Eye contact is considered 3rd base to most of these butterfly's.