Meh, I was trying to cooperate as being hired as a remote worker being forced back into the office, but I think my breaking point was when went to the bathroom at the assigned building I am supposed to badge in at , and the toilet was overflowing with water and pi-s and I look down and I am standing in it..lets just say after that my LinkedIn is now set to "open to work" and already have multiple recruiters reaching out. Wonderful leadership and direction of this company I must say.. Even when I was making half the wage, the bathrooms were clean, floors vacuumed regularly , had someone to wipe down the tables and desks etc. this place is a fu--ing dump.
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VPEC has some bidets.
That's why people go there to "TAKE ONE".
Facilities question: any timeline on bidets? The current bog roll is basically gravel in sheet form — I’m one more cafeteria taco away from filing an OSHA complaint on behalf of my backside.
@ad Give him a break. He's a Ford executive. What would you expect?
@bk Hopefully drinking out of the nearest punchbowl is not part of the same custom!
"...it's custom to wipe and toss in the trash can rather than flush."
Can confirm. This is one of most repugnant things I've seen happen in a workplace. People who do this are f'ing filthy. I really dont care if its cultural "adjustment ". Fine...call it what you want. I call it unsanitary, filthy, and quite frankly disrespectful.
Dude I dont blame cleaning staff. I see them more than I see my team. I say hi and know her name. Engineers are nasty. How hard is it to throw a paper towel in the trash?
@OP Just report the issue to building management. They'll put those rubber matt risers on the floor so you stand above the pi$$ and not directly in it. That's what they did at my building pre COVID.
Also don't be culturally insensitive to our visiting work force from other countries, it's custom to wipe and toss in the trash can rather than flush.
Yes you need to sanitize your work area before you begin work in this open call environment. The table surfaces are easy to sanitize. The chairs are a different story. Walk over to the Dearborn library when you need to use the facilities.
@a8+1k0ynyw0p The custodial staff use to be Ford employees. At that point in time they gave a darn and things were well maintained. They regularly met with the facilities team (also Ford) and gave them heads up on plumbing, electrical, tile work, painting and other issues they observed.
Then Ford decided to save some coin and the custodial staff was given the opportunity to join the non-Ford janitorial company Ford decided to replace the Ford workers with. Initially the service was roughly equivalent but year after year the janitorial service cut benefits and wages while increasing the workload. As you can imagine the staff turnover was quite high. The janitorial staff doesn’t have the time to do more than a surface level cleaning. There is zero collaboration between Ford facilities and the janitorial staff and it shows. Whose responsibility are plugged drains? Not the janitorial service. Whose responsibility is it to notify Ford facilities of plugged drains? Not the janitorial service.
Deep cleaning (cleaning behind furniture, scrubbing desk surfaces etc). Is a separate fee. Ford use to pay the janitorial staff to do deep cleaning over holidays like the Xmas break. Ford cheaped out and no longer pays that.
Ford followed the same playbook with building security.
I use to chat with the custodial staff when working late hours. When the jobs were Ford union jobs many were ex-plant workers who had an injury and Ford allowed them to move to a less physically demanding job. All those guys actually cared about Ford and were proud of the jobs they did.
Now Ford is following the same playbook with white collared jobs
Look at the bright side. It's next to impossible for Ford to go down the toilet while it is overflowing. Think of it as job security?
@ad Are you sure that you didn't just enter a board meeting room or new model launch meeting room by mistake?
LOL, how do you not notice it all over the floor before walking into it???
More often than not there is not paper towel for drying your hands after washing. I've frequently seen 3 out of 5 toilets either overflowing with excr-ment or bagged up - the facilities are absolutely disgusting and inhospitable. This is before they get over packed - what is leadership doing??
Ford likes to hire cleaning companies that just push carts around the building. You find them standing and sitting around. Used to see their version of desk cleaning in PDC before COVID, they'd pull out a feather duster and just graze the desks and move on. If you wanted your desks and cabinet clean, you had to do it yourself.