Working in Filth

I'm just curious if anyone else in other areas are dealing with the same thing.

This is not a RTO complaint, I don't mind working in office, my team has been back in office since 2021.

Our building is disgusting. DISGUSTING!

We work in an ops center that is very old. There have been a lot of issues over the past few years... Elevators broken down, sewage smells, roaches and other bug infestations.

But the absolute worst is what we've been dealing with for months.

We've had multiple bathroom floodings. In one case they flooded and the water was turned off. Were we advised to evacuate and Wfh? Nope. An email was sent out stating, "it was recommended we not use the bathrooms." Oh, okay... So what are we supposed to do then? Use toilets that can't be flushed in an emergency?

Because if these multiple floodings, we've lost count at this point, the carpet is absolutely vile. There are stains on both floors... It smells awful. Our bathrooms smell awful. When you pull into the parking lot, you smell sewage.

Although we're all perfectly capable of working from home, we've not been given that option and it makes absolutely no sense to me.

We're not asking to Wfh permanently... We're asking to be able to work from home until our building is functional.

The wall paper is bubbled up from the water damage. The carpet is constantly wet and stained and smells horrible from bathroom floodings.

I know multiple employees have contacted HR and we've been told it's getting fixed... And while it may be getting fixed, and we've seen workers changing lightbulbs... bathrooms closed to fix... Why are we forced to work in an office building with renovations going on, sewage smells, toilet water drenched carpet, and having to go up and down staircases and across the building to find the one bathroom open with 6 stalls for two floors worth of people?

I just don't get it. Why not just let us Wfh, or at the very least work at another building's "hotel desks" until our building is fit?

Make it make sense.

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This is an OSHA violation. See article below. Someone please man up and file a complaint. It’s sad how spineless and cowardly workers have become towards their employer. It is illegal for Truist to fire or retaliate against you for filing a OSHA complaint.

“OSHA - Restrooms and Sanitation Requirements”

https://www.osha.gov/restrooms-sanitation

Absolutely file an OSHA violation if you’ve already reached out to the HR partner and nothing has been done.

This building is in Wilson nc

Where is this building? State?

What do you expect when real estate is under “enterprise corporate services” whose head is incompetent and knows absolutely nothing about real estate (or anything else within his purview). He does however kiss the a-s of Beau and Bill and is one of their tokens to show inclusiveness hence why his role has continually expanded.

This is an OSHA violation. File a complaint with OSHA below!

https://www.osha.gov/workers/file-complaint

My manager doesn’t even work in this building so the complaints falls on deaf ears.

"Why are we forced"

No one is "forcing" you. Man up and tell your manager you will be working from home until the facility is restored to an acceptable level of safety and sanitation. If they threaten to take action against you, go to OSHA and your local tv station.

When Truist announced the Innovation and Technology Center in 2022 I wanted to vomit. Instead of fixing our many locations in rough condition, they spent millions on a place very few teammates use. Now, 2 years later we no longer hear about the ITC and its swing sets, let alone any innovations that came out of this spending.

The Truist buildings I've worked in have had bathrooms that don't work (once this year for 5 weeks!), dead roaches daily, AC that breaks every summer, ceiling leaks, window leaks, asbestos release incidents, mold/mildew stains, etc. Instead fixing the problems they do things like replace the stained ceiling tiles (to be stained again in the future).

OSHA is your friend

This post is not layoff related. You are on the layoff.com.

Buildings are sh-t holes and unless newer no chance renovations have happened. They slapped purple paint on accent walls and called it a day.

Branches are the exact same way and clients can see it. We haven't had AC/Heat in over a year in ours.

I’d find another employer who will let you work from home. There really aren’t many companies requiring in office work anymore.

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