Well, me I'm unemployed, so I can't complain any. Unemployed Sucks.
My wife---man, they're turning to Nazi's.
Here's the olds setup:
A company that manufactures and ships it's product, and has all support staff in the same complex.---two buildings joined by a walkway. One for the office people and sales staff (She's marketing). The second for Asssembly and Shipping. All Cubes were 5 foot partitions, and were Gray, so some sort of privacy was plausible at least.
The parent company was recently bought out, and a new parent company is in control now. THey have moved all Sales-people to new cubes in the factory side. All cubes are waste high. The managers can see everyone from their Clear-All-Plexiglass Offices.
Where my wife works, it takes less then two minutes to walk from her cube to where the sales people work.
There was recently a memo that came down:
1. No office staff in the old complex are to be in the sales area. If you need to contact a salesperson, send an email. The same is true for salespeople. If you need someting from the office side, contact hte receptionist, and we'll send it to you.
2. Sales people are to be at their desks from 8-5. YOu may take your lunch break from 12-1 or 11-12. Sign in and out is required for lunch, as well as arrival.
3. 8:01 or 8:02 is not 8:00
4. We offer two breaks during the day. 10 minutes each. They are not floating. Please take your break from 10-10:30 and 2-2:30.
5. All sales peopel are to wear their ear pieces at all times. (They're not wireless....they plug in to the phone station)
6. <This was the kicker>. Sales people are suppossed to be at their desk at all times. Please limit your bathroom visits during working hours, and use your break and lunch-time for this.
I told my wife to start looking for new work.
She said the morale there is absolutely in the dumps (cpet for management) and people feel now like they need hallpasses when they're walking around.
Personally...with the extreme strictness that they're now enforcing (it used to be very laid back....sales people and office people were intermingled, and had a common breakroom. The people that came in late regularly have all been fired, and everyone there now has been with teh company for at least 2.5 years....and they work well together according to my wife)......like I was saying. Personally...I think the new ownership has a master plan in effect, and they're wanting to weed out some people by making them quit instead of paying them the two weeks + unemployment bs if they lay them off.
I was hoping to get a job there in sales while the tech side of things is in the slums, but the hell with it. I'd rather be taking someone's order then putting up with that crap.
PS.
Some of the rules---I can understand---but it's the way that they're being talkied to in the memo's that's really setting everyone off.
My wife---man, they're turning to Nazi's.
Here's the olds setup:
A company that manufactures and ships it's product, and has all support staff in the same complex.---two buildings joined by a walkway. One for the office people and sales staff (She's marketing). The second for Asssembly and Shipping. All Cubes were 5 foot partitions, and were Gray, so some sort of privacy was plausible at least.
The parent company was recently bought out, and a new parent company is in control now. THey have moved all Sales-people to new cubes in the factory side. All cubes are waste high. The managers can see everyone from their Clear-All-Plexiglass Offices.
Where my wife works, it takes less then two minutes to walk from her cube to where the sales people work.
There was recently a memo that came down:
1. No office staff in the old complex are to be in the sales area. If you need to contact a salesperson, send an email. The same is true for salespeople. If you need someting from the office side, contact hte receptionist, and we'll send it to you.
2. Sales people are to be at their desks from 8-5. YOu may take your lunch break from 12-1 or 11-12. Sign in and out is required for lunch, as well as arrival.
3. 8:01 or 8:02 is not 8:00
4. We offer two breaks during the day. 10 minutes each. They are not floating. Please take your break from 10-10:30 and 2-2:30.
5. All sales peopel are to wear their ear pieces at all times. (They're not wireless....they plug in to the phone station)
6. <This was the kicker>. Sales people are suppossed to be at their desk at all times. Please limit your bathroom visits during working hours, and use your break and lunch-time for this.
I told my wife to start looking for new work.
She said the morale there is absolutely in the dumps (cpet for management) and people feel now like they need hallpasses when they're walking around.
Personally...with the extreme strictness that they're now enforcing (it used to be very laid back....sales people and office people were intermingled, and had a common breakroom. The people that came in late regularly have all been fired, and everyone there now has been with teh company for at least 2.5 years....and they work well together according to my wife)......like I was saying. Personally...I think the new ownership has a master plan in effect, and they're wanting to weed out some people by making them quit instead of paying them the two weeks + unemployment bs if they lay them off.
I was hoping to get a job there in sales while the tech side of things is in the slums, but the hell with it. I'd rather be taking someone's order then putting up with that crap.
PS.
Some of the rules---I can understand---but it's the way that they're being talkied to in the memo's that's really setting everyone off.
