I asked for a water cooler for our office. We had about 10 people working at the site, one suffered from kidney stones and I had gout. The nearest water cooler was two floors above us.
I asked my manager for a water cooler and he said no. He said if we got a water cooler, the people at the other sites would want one too.
The other two sites had only two people each, so it was different, but also, why the hell wouldn’t you want them to have water too?
He got passed over for promotion and left when a prior subordinate became his supervisor. After he left the new manager asked me if we needed something, and I said we’d like to have a water cooler. She was both shocked that we were previously denied and surprised that water was what we needed to be happy. We’ve had the water cooler ever since.
My company just got rid of the water cooler… it was apparently a subscription service costing the business $75 USD a week.
Last year our company attempted a merger the CEO and shareholders wanted but was pretty derided by industry experts and would challenge nearly century old Federal anti-trust regulations. We were almost immediately sued to stop the merger and its now been paused for more than a year, costing the company interest payments on the loans we took out to pay for it.
So far this year they downsized a whole department eliminating seven jobs including a middle manager type role, told us in not so many words that we were entering a period of deferred maintenance, and that corporate would be reevaluating cost of living adjustments for next year… the board is still planning stock buy backs and shareholder dividend payouts.
Management told us we have to cut back on “little luxuries” to which someone asked how the fuck water was a luxury. The economy is doing great!
I used to work as a contractor at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. One day my boss (at my contracting company) came by and said we were going to a meeting with Time Warner Cable execs. I reached for my coat but he stopped me; we rode the elevator up to the 16th floor where Time Warner Cable had a suite of offices … in the Comcast Center. A year or two later they announced plans for a merger of the two companies, which was somehow and mystifyingly stopped by the FCC. Like, they’d already merged essentially.
That microwave is far too clean
I can smell the microwaved fish and burnt popcorn from here.
Only one microwave though and everyone has lunch at the same time.
And only 1 table and 4 chairs so everyone shares elbow space while everyone else has to go outside
It’s like you’ve been to our break room! (it’s actually 2 benches and one chair, so at elbows you can fit a whole 5 people!)
I worked at an American multinational company. When discussing the benefits they told me they had a parking garage. I didn’t even have a car.
Forgot the 30 year old coffee maker, you have to bring your own beans tho
Mine promised a water filter 2 years ago and they put the feed pipe in last week.
Lucky one.
Our “competitive raises”, AKA below inflation raises!
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My manager refused to get us a new fridge for our lunches when the ancient one we had died. 10K bonus a year though, she collected that.
