Hey Dave Cote: When I go onsite in Deer Valley, I am subjected to ugly dirty working conditions. Your c---roaches are huge. Your offices which are not cleaned by any sort of cleaning staff are dirty and dusty. Working form home gave me clean air and clean surfaces. As I am not a janitor/housekeeper, I do not see why I should be performing janitorial functions at work.
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"As I am not a janitor/housekeeper, I do not see why I should be performing janitorial functions at work."
Who in the fuuuuuck are you that you're too important to clean your work space? Many companies are moving towards employees keeping their work spaces clean.
If there are crockroaches, call an exterminator to come to the site, or exterminate them yourself. If there is dust in the lactation room, wipe the room down before you start pumping. It's LAZINESS on your part, so do us all a favor and get over yourself.
Stop complaining and making excuses why not to go to work. Slackers
If I have enough professional pride to pay a housekeeper to clean my home office, I expect my in-plant office to be clean. Hey @JLI4ROy-ods you probably never had to pump breast milk in one of Dave Cote's "lactation" rooms. In Deer Valley, we have c---roaches that we NAME, they are so huge. I guess Cote thinks it's a step up from when we had to express milk in the ladies room.
Yes, you are expected to keep your work area clean. It's called 5s. I personally do not have a problem cleaning the dust off of everything. This is charged to general allowable. What I do have a problem with is the e-mail you get the next day from zonk the supervisor questioning why you charged a 1/2 hr to clean up. Why? Because that's how long it took to cleanup the filth you idiot. Just another intimidation tactick to try and nudge you to mischarge so their burden rate looks good. So quess what pal, i don't mischarge. Since you get brownie points for low burden rate, you should not ask people to perform tasks that get charged to burden. It's as simple as that Skippy.
ok you p-$$--s, go ahead and write Tim M. your BS rationale, The fact that you have rationalized these dumb A$$ excused for lounging at home means that you are disconnected from reality at Honeywell. Any time you feel it is no longer worth your time to work at Honeywell, then quit. When you go to your new job interview don't forget to tell them all about your WFH ethics. LoL I don't any employer will share your point of view.
Dirty work surfaces and pant sizes aside;
Mr. Mahoney's stated reasoning regarding team work and collaboration do not stand up to scrutiny, and will stand up even less so with Honeywell's drive to be a software company. I currently work in north Phoenix and have been one of the telecommuters. I do this for a number of reasons, primary among them is, the people I work most directly with are overseas. I actually do not, for primary job related functions, interface with anyone at my actual physical job location. The person in my work group who is also in the same state, is 15 miles away. My management isn't even local.
The only thing this change will do, is compel me to spend somewhere around 80 minutes of my day, each day, burning fossil fuels to commute to a cubicle I don't really need, to be around people I don't actually work with.
This change raises fuel costs to employees, raises accident risk rates by increasing driving time exposure, increases national fuel usage and local pollution rates, increases wear and tear on roads, and facilities while not actually adding any real benefit to the company.
It will, logically, also increase the occurrence of sick days. I haven't taken a single sick day since working remotely because, no matter how sick I was, I could at least either bring my laptop to my sick bed with me, or get out of bed, shuffle down the hall and take care of important items as needed, take meetings, and deal whatever bug I had without risk of passing it along to the rest of the work group, or being too medicated to drive effectively.
Instead of looking at unused work spaces as an opportunity to do something different with the work spaces, by either expanding facilities or using them for new growth like an innovative, creative, developing company does the company went backwards into an inflexible, brown shoe'ed, world view that fails to take into account how a large chunk of the company actually works.
Again.
It is a sad day in this country when people now that it is OK to work in unclean conditions. It isn't about wiping down your work area. There have been sites where the health dept was called due to unclean bathrooms or toilets not being fixed when they overflow. It is OK to want to work in clean work conditions and there are laws to support that.
What a novel concept... you will have to go to work everyday....Imagine that?
Poster: JLI4ROy-qtr... You are the type of person that made this happen. Most normal people would just get a damp paper towel and wipe down their desk and monitor, oh don't tell me that you are not a janitor. Look in the mirror.... would you hire you??? I don't think so, because you are a pain in the A$$ employee. Hope you get RIF'd, not unless you have 180 deg. attitude adjustment.
This person wrote about filthy working conditions, not so much about working from home. I don't suppose this person would mind going into the office if it was clean and not bug infested. So put your big boy pants on and realize that they are speaking of working conditions
Quit whining. Working from home is a privilege, not a "right". Man up, put on some big boy pants and go to the office.