Posted on 06/08/2006 by ACube2Graphic
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I just got a company memo, followed by a list of names and dates for going OUTSIDE the office at 9:30 am Monday mornings for 10 minutes to pick up trash. Is it me, or isn't this usually what a janitor does? When I got this graphics job, I must have missed it in the fine print. All the hourly employees, two every Monday, have to go outside with a garbage bag and pick up trash! I Don't think so!! I'm perfectly willing to help co-workers with their work, or wipe up around the coffee pot, but I NOT doing that! And they can't do SQUAT to anyone who won't or the Labor Board will have they're *sses..... This is what happens when you have a company that's making millions, the boss buys a new car every year, but is too cheap to hire a janitor...
POST A COMMENTavid reader(06/08/2006)
WTF???? You are right to be outraged! Does your company have a trash probelm or something? That is ridiculous! Until you see the CEO out there picking up trash I wouldn't budge.
ACube2Graphic(06/08/2006)
The GM is the one who wrote up the schedule, and I notice that HE'S not on it. We do have a maid service that comes inside to clean bathrooms, wash coffee pots, & empty trash INSIDE. A lot of it comes from the warehouse and the dumpster out back, especially when the wind whips up between the buildings. I'm kind of insulted... Looks like I get an extra 10 minute break on Mondays!!
ACube2Graphic(06/08/2006)
I'm already doing most of my demoted supervisor's work AND mine, and I can't even get a raise for that, so they're smoking crack if they think I'm going to do garbage duty, too.
Spencer(06/08/2006)
That's garbage! (hahahahhaa) Dude, I'd raise holy hell about this crap. Do you work in an area that is warm all year round or do they expect you to go out and do this even in winter. Either way i'd be pisssssssed off. Adding garbage collector to my job description would not fly. They already snuck in whipping boy and gopher when I wasn't looking. Fight the power!
ACube2Graphic(06/08/2006)
This is So. Calif. We don't get Winter. I look at it this way; it'll take me *at least* 20 minutes to do a thorough "look" for garbage around the building, and by then, it'll be my break time! I'll be sure to bring my thermos with me. I don't mind getting paid to take a 30 minute break, on top of an hour lunch. Yes, it's crap, but I'm gonna get something out of it while it lasts....
Dharmadee(06/08/2006)
They do what they think they can get away with. If finances are really not an issues, then I would have to say something. They tried to get ME to move furniture...I don't think so.
just me(06/08/2006)
Dharmadee is exactly right. They will do what they think they can get away with. Well put.
ACube2Graphic(06/12/2006)
Well my turn to be janitor was today. Oh, oops, I forgot to jump up and do that! I have a very bad (2nd degree) sunburn on the back of my knees, which the Spvr. knows, so he comes in and says to me, "So, who did you trade with for trash duty?" Trade? No one, and I don't have time to run around wasting time asking everyone either. I told him I alread clean up the kitchen & girls' bathroom that the GUYS screw up for us, so I've done my part. Got grief.
ACube2Graphic(07/07/2006)
Update; last week, after much uproar and complaint, they called trash duty (well sort of). The GM mentioned to the AR/AP & receptionist @ a meeting they had that it would be cancelled, but no "official" proclamation. What was he thinking....
the confessor(07/09/2006)
One radio exec I knew invited the staff of one of our stations to a free pizza party-then revealed that following the eats, the staff was expected to clean the entire station including toilets. It was another ploy to save $$ since he had let the cleaning folks go. I was told that the entire staff walked out (this was typical in this radio group- refer to my "Bag O' Chips" story). The manager cursed the senior exec as they had to hustle around answering phones, trying to keep the two stations on-air, etc. The following day, they staff walked in as one and announced they had just left the state unemployment office and were there to get their things. The manager begged them to stay. P.S. The abandoned pizza sat in the conference room for days until the manager himself picked it up.
ACube2Graphic(07/17/2006)
Update; now the GM, playing some kinda game I suppose, told 3 people (accts. payable and accts. receivable girls and the receptionist) that "oh by the way, trash detail is cancelled". Okay fine. How about telling everyone else? The supervisors apparently think this is still going, and the girls are not exactly treating this like a company secret, and mentioned this to a few people. Today I see that the schedule was updated as one employee quit last week (big surprise), & was rearranged so as to cover that day. I think he's checking for an info. "leak"...STILL NOT DOING IT!! I want to put a little note on the schedule saying that as per the GM, it's been cancelled. Suggestions? He often tells ppl different stories, and will lie to your face when confronted.
Fear(09/13/2006)
You can either tell 'em to drop dead or stretch it out as long as possible and make them pay you to do it.
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