Tony Sestito said:
On the subject of Farts...
Two things:
-When we outfitted our office, we got mesh back-and-bottom office chairs. Optimum air flow, and way less gross! That said, I don't think anyone is tearing it up in the office. Not audibly, at least.
-(For some reason, I've told this story about 5 times in the past week) When I first joined the corporate business world, I worked in a backwater office for a huge financial company. Most of the people there were under 35, and it was basically all kids right out of college at their 1st office job. Think the TV show The Office, but on a larger scale. It was nuts out there, and the office antics were always cranked to 11. At some point, someone started crop dusting people on purpose "to be funny". This escalated into a Fart War where people were farting at each other (to be clear, I was a victim here, not on the farting front lines). The "collateral damage" caused people to complain, so the entire business unit got pulled into a big conference room and executives had to tell people to stop farting. Think about that for a minute: executive leadership and HR leaders for one of the biggest financial companies in the world had to come out to the office and tell employees to stop farting at each other. If that's not high comedy, I don't know what is.
This just put a huge smile on my face.
In reply to z31maniac :
Want to manage people? Highest paid baby sitters. Amazon - please dont poop in boxes.....
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/25/amazon-delivery-workers-bathrooms-memo
Datsun310Guy said:
In reply to z31maniac :
Want to manage people? Highest paid baby sitters. Amazon - please dont poop in boxes.....
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/25/amazon-delivery-workers-bathrooms-memo
This only came after they effectively told workers to poop somewhere unconventional with their performance requirements...
Duke
MegaDork
8/24/23 6:35 p.m.
In reply to Tony Sestito :
I got to pick our new office chairs, and I went modern all-mesh rather than the big '80s pleather EXECUTIVE CHAIRS my boss had provided previously.
The new chairs are much cooler and more adjustable...
...but they do nothing to muffle a fart. There's no sneaking one into the cushions like was was previously possible.
Datsun310Guy said:
In reply to z31maniac :
Want to manage people? Highest paid baby sitters. Amazon - please dont poop in boxes.....
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/25/amazon-delivery-workers-bathrooms-memo
Well I meant that the workers did that to the point that's what the higher ups had to do.
As for being a manager? I have less than no desire to read hundreds of emails and spend 25+ hours per week in meetings. Managing that type of scenario? I'd be looking for the tallest building to jump off.
