I’m OK with five days, but give us permanent seats!! This is getting ridiculous, spending 30 mins looking for a place to sit and another 30 re-hooking up monitors and cleaning a cube with someone’s lunch crumbs and dirty tissues whilst sitting in a broken chair all day. We have to lug our own equipment back and forth, you never know if you’ll get a cube with no power. It’s so counterproductive it’s insane. You expect me here, I expect you (Dell) to provide me with a cube that I don’t have to clean or crawl under and take apart to hook up and work. Are we a technology company or third world telemarketing company selling car warranties?
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No worries. Things will be less crowded after April 11th and follow-on Quarters this year.
If he’s experiencing excessive or particularly foul-smelling gas, it might be worth suggesting portion sizes or telling him to pair his eggs with other foods to see if that helps.
There's a guy near me that brings in 4 boiled eggs in a plastic tub for breakfast.
Not only do we have to deal with the smell when he opens the tub, but we also have to deal with it when he eats them and then 4 hours later when they're digested.
Could we not get some RTO etiquette guidelines? There are some absolutely vile animals stalking these hallways.
Just take the doors off the bathroom stalls and make your own desks.
That's the name of the game, actually. And I'm surprised so many folks still take official RTO bullsh-t at face value. The very reason they've implemented it in this ugly and frustrating fashion is to force people to quit!
It’s the same for me OP. Every morning turns into a high-stakes game of musical chairs, except instead of music, it’s the sound of people sighing in frustration - shuffling around trying to hook up their cr-p.
By the time I finally claim a desk, I spend the next several minutes detangling a jungle of cables, trying to figure out why there’s no power, and disinfecting my workspace like I just stepped into a crime scene investigation. Seriously, why am I scrubbing away suspicious snack shrapnel, abandoned tissues, stray fingernail trimmings, and the occasional rogue hair? I don’t want to know whose biological material I’m touching, I just want my own place to work!
It’s almost as if they put no thought into it, and are doing it to get you to leave, because to them you’re not a person, you’re an expense.
"log a request with facilities/IT,"
Not sure where OP is but for my building Dell layed off all the facilities and IT staff except foba single janitor. It's been made abundantly clear that we're expected to do our own problem solving.
This is the way.
Don't make someone else's problem your problem.
What they're providing for a work space is unacceptable, bordering on intolerable.
Start viewing their unprofessionalism (and potential illegality) of Dell in regard to this as: "Lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part."
Document your correspondence about this in writing and with pics. Make formal complaints in writing (w/ pics) to your manager, IT, and then if still not rectified, HR.
Definitely don't just accept it.
Insist that they fix it, or escalate this situation to taking legal action.
Dell liquidated land/buildings and employee amenities to save money.
It's a low budget outfit with very low standards and you are considered the biggest expense.
Do NOT go to the trouble of crawling under desks or hoocking up monitors etc. I dont know what region you are in but you should check out the legislation with regards to workspace that employers must provide you with. If the only space left for you to use does not meet these standards, log a request with facilities/IT, take pictures as evidence and walk out the door. You can not be expected to work in an unsuitable work environment.
Do not hide the problem by trying to fix it yourself.