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If you're like my old boss, just tell the employees to assemble their own desks, and then wonder why all these developers who requested a standing desk, are sti
by le-mark 9y ago
If you're like my old boss, just tell the employees to assemble their own desks, and then wonder why all these developers who requested a standing desk, are still using their old sit down desks.
- tdb7893 9y agoAs long as they would allow me to do it on company time it would be a nice distraction from work.
- hinkley 9y agoI gotta say, I sorta miss assembling my own computer on the first day of work. I don’t miss the bloody knuckles though.
- blaike 9y agoGet it into DevOps. Fixing your own computer seems to be par for the course.
- brians 9y agoOf course you can do it on company time. What other time is there?
- Johnny555 9y agoI'd be happy to assemble all of my office furniture if my company paid for it -- though paying $100+/hour engineers to do the work of a $15+ handyman seems like a bad deal for the company - especially when the guy that assembles desks all day will do it faster (and correctly).
- skybrian 9y agoConsider it a team-building exercise? Companies waste employee time in all sorts of other ways, so why not building desks?
- ComputerGuru 9y agoTongue-in-cheek/devil's advocate reply: I wouldn't necessarily consider building furniture a very safe team building excercise, it may just have the opposite result ;-) https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-goes-through-every-couples-mind-while-assembling-ikea-furniture_us_56f2beb2e4b02c402f65efef https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-goes-through-every...
- nugator 9y agoWe did exactly this where I'm an expensive consultant. The one who assembled his table the fastest won a prize. My workplace might be a little different but we also are responsible for moving the dishes in and out of the dishwasher. I'm happy to do it.
- Kluny 9y agoI'd be happy to manage my own desk procurement, including organizing the delivery and assembly, if my employer wanted to pay me for it - that's still paying an engineer for administrative work, but maybe less of it at least.
- ChiliConKanye 9y agoI question how handy a handyman who only charges minimum wage could possibly be. The union guys who put together the furniture in my last office were getting $50 or $60/hr IIRC.
- lsc 9y agoJust sayin, but in most areas that I've been where Engineers make $100+/hr, handymen make rather more than $15/hr.
- loco5niner 9y agoI would love to do that.
- zaxomi 9y agoA former boss of mine told the employees to assemble the furniture at the new location. It was fast and it looked good. After a week the monitors started to fail, because the cable to the monitor was too tight, so when they moved the monitor, the contact on the back of the monitor broke.
- gambiting 9y agoHa, at my partner's work(large IT company in UK) they are not even allowed to move or adjust the height of their own desks, because it's a health and safety violation and if anything happened to them doing it the insurance wouldn't cover them. I think HR would get a heart attack at the thought of employees assembling their own desks.
- calgoo 9y agoYea i always found this funny. I was not allowed to move a monitor in the office, but was racking 4u servers by myself in the datacenter. When i asked they claimed it was because the insurance for the monitor, not me, would not be covered if it was not the local IT guy who moved it.
- liotier 9y agoThat was tradition at the first company I joined: every new hire assembles his own Ikea desk, with help from his new colleagues - it was fun !