Principal Financial-Remote work

[carvers4math]

Hey but engineers love big open spaces to work in where they can hear other people chat about the weather and chew with mouths open.

My last job had a bunch of us crammed into an office where we could all hear our office mate call her husband, tell him she had to work late so he was going to have several more hours alone with their toddler with chicken pox, then call her boyfriend and tell him she was free for several hours.

Also got to hear a guy telling us all about his athlete’s foot and then take off his footwear to show us all

 

[KnappShack]

My last job had a bunch of us crammed into an office where we could all hear our office mate call her husband, tell him she had to work late so he was going to have several more hours alone with their toddler with chicken pox, then call her boyfriend and tell him she was free for several hours.

Also got to hear a guy telling us all about his athlete’s foot and then take off his footwear to show us all

The bad interviews on speaker made it absolutely impossible to accomplish work

 

[cycloneG]

It was in Covid threads here. A LOT of b’ing then. Big one was the extra 20/month for better wifi and they said the company should buy them new routers, screens and other computer equipment because their stuff at home wasn’t as nice.

It sounds more like they missed some of the perks at working in office

 

[isufbcurt]

My last job had a bunch of us crammed into an office where we could all hear our office mate call her husband, tell him she had to work late so he was going to have several more hours alone with their toddler with chicken pox, then call her boyfriend and tell him she was free for several hours.

Also got to hear a guy telling us all about his athlete’s foot and then take off his footwear to show us all

I hope you are serious because that is awesome

 

[BCClone]

It sounds more like they missed some of the perks at working in office

It could be. It just tells me that some people are never happy or just like to B a lot.

 

[BCClone]

My last job had a bunch of us crammed into an office where we could all hear our office mate call her husband, tell him she had to work late so he was going to have several more hours alone with their toddler with chicken pox, then call her boyfriend and tell him she was free for several hours.

Also got to hear a guy telling us all about his athlete’s foot and then take off his footwear to show us all

So when did you break up with your bf?

 

[carvers4math]

I hope you are serious because that is awesome

Totally serious. I didn’t throw in the office mate who was smoking pot in the office on a Saturday I had to go in. It totally messed up my asthma so I just went to another office with a computer I could use, making it less weird than the other two.

Athletes foot guy was the one someone stopped from drinking my breast milk he found in a baby bottle in the office fridge.

 

[BCClone]

Totally serious. I didn’t throw in the office mate who was smoking pot in the office on a Saturday I had to go in. It totally messed up my asthma so I just went to another office with a computer I could use, making it less weird than the other two.

Athletes foot guy was the one someone stopped from drinking my breast milk he found in a baby bottle in the office fridge.

Did you work at a parole office or with special needs or something???

 

[MJ29]

Put the review you were going to do in-house and put it on Glassdoor or a similar external site.

I'm looking at other opportunities (as are many) and these reviews will help steer potential employees one way or another. There's companies that are worried about these.

I encourage everyone to voice their opinion and stand up for themself regarding working conditions. A company that refuses to acknowledge employee input is a company I don't want to work for or encourage others to work for.

My reviews are consistently the same -- high marks for my immediate management and low marks for the highest levels of management.

 

[cyphoon]

on the hotel room policy, could an employee just refuse to state their gender and threaten to go to HR if they force you into rooming with someone?

I just tell them that I sleepwalk and tend to pee on peoples stuff. That usually is enough to get me my own room.

H

 

[cyphoon]

Hey but engineers love big open spaces to work in where they can hear other people chat about the weather and chew with mouths open.

I'm laughing at this, but I'm also grinding my molars a bit. Open floor plans are a sore subject.

H

 

[KnappShack]

Totally serious. I didn’t throw in the office mate who was smoking pot in the office on a Saturday I had to go in. It totally messed up my asthma so I just went to another office with a computer I could use, making it less weird than the other two.

Athletes foot guy was the one someone stopped from drinking my breast milk he found in a baby bottle in the office fridge.

Reminds me of my first job a little. Just out of college and entry level pay. Barely scraping by.

The brokers in the office were all millionaires. Raining money.

One (or more) of those folks would steal food. Open the lunch bag and the sandwich would be gone. Bag of dicks.

Also reminds me of working late in DSM. I caught the cleaner eating food out of the trash. She was afraid I'd get her fired.

 

[Mr Janny]

Put the review you were going to do in-house and put it on Glassdoor or a similar external site.

I'm looking at other opportunities (as are many) and these reviews will help steer potential employees one way or another. There's companies that are worried about these.

I encourage everyone to voice their opinion and stand up for themself regarding working conditions. A company that refuses to acknowledge employee input is a company I don't want to work for or encourage others to work for.

Absolutely this. One of the best questions I heard from a candidate in an interview was "Tell me about a time when the company made a significant change due to employee opinion/feedback." It starts a conversation and gives the interviewer an opportunity to show off some company culture wins. Red flags should be easy to spot as well.

I've actually incorporated it into my own bag of tricks when I am interviewed. There's always that "Ok do you have any questions for me?" portion of the interview that can be awkward if you don't have anything prepared.

 

[SCNCY]

My reviews are consistently the same -- high marks for my immediate management and low marks for the highest levels of management.

That's interesting, I wonder how they determine that. If it's a big company, do those people even know who you are?

 

[khardbored]

That's interesting, I wonder how they determine that. If it's a big company, do those people even know who you are?

Probably not.

Which is (or at least can be) part of the problem. The people making the decision on budget, etc. are 5-6 level of hierarchy above the front-line workers, and don't even know what goes on in the department. We are viewed as assets and/or liabilities, nothing more.

My division head I've met once ever, and it was in a silly activity that had nothing to do with the job itself. They probably have no idea who I am.

Work for a big corporation = good benefits (health insurance, pension, 401K, dental, etc). But any "we're a family" lingo is a big joke.

 

[carvers4math]

Reminds me of my first job a little. Just out of college and entry level pay. Barely scraping by.

The brokers in the office were all millionaires. Raining money.

One (or more) of those folks would steal food. Open the lunch bag and the sandwich would be gone. Bag of dicks.

Also reminds me of working late in DSM. I caught the cleaner eating food out of the trash. She was afraid I'd get her fired.

The cleaning lady thing makes me sad. I would have given her a tip or something.

We were all well compensated professionals but given the building we had to be in, there just wasn’t much room.

Managers got a real office. There were two “open concept” areas they crammed us into that were nicknamed the bullpen and the holding cell. I was in the holding cell. Some dude would pick his nose or scratch his balls and everybody not staring at their work would see it. That was over 25 years ago. So when “open concept” workspaces became the rage, I just had to laugh.

Several of my sons are hybrid. One of them is because they just don’t have enough work space for all the engineers. His immediate manager just told them to figure out a schedule so that somebody is covering the work spaces most of the time in case upper management comes by. Sometimes he needs to go in to do things in the manufacturing areas and dumps some stuff by a computer to make the space look occupied and make higher ups happy. But probably 90% of the time he just needs a computer and a phone to do his job and they really don’t need to be a few feet away from each other yapping to different people on the phone.

 

[cowgirl836]

I'm laughing at this, but I'm also grinding my molars a bit. Open floor plans are a sore subject.

H

Spouse did a work trip and came back traumatized by the specter of paired programming in an open floor plan. Luckily, they *only* went to open floor. My former work did as well but put the walls back up after Covid for health reasons.

 

[qwerty]

Bosses want people back in the office, but employees are finding a workaround—it's called 'coffee badging'

Workers are showing up to the office when they're required, but that doesn't mean they're sticking around for the whole day.

www.cnbc.com

 

[MJ29]

That's interesting, I wonder how they determine that. If it's a big company, do those people even know who you are?

I just don't believe they actually value the people who work below them. I never see them in our area (even though our building isn't huge), and they do little to show their appreciation for our work. I don't care if the CEO doesn't know my name or face, but it would be nice if I felt like he appreciated the employees. Full disclosure, I liked the former CEO a lot, but it probably helps that I had occasional networking lunches with him, but I also just saw him in the hallways more. And when I did, he at least said hello. The current CEO looks the other way as if he didn't see me. Most people I talk to have had similar experience with the current CEO. The rest of the management team is not much better.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Totally serious. I didn’t throw in the office mate who was smoking pot in the office on a Saturday I had to go in. It totally messed up my asthma so I just went to another office with a computer I could use, making it less weird than the other two.

Athletes foot guy was the one someone stopped from drinking my breast milk he found in a baby bottle in the office fridge.

You clearly work at Wal-Mart