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I'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
by Johnny555 9y ago
I'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.