2017年5月13日 · As you know, my chair is broken. It has been broken since date Y. You've said I would get replacement chair the following week on date Y, date X, date W, and finally on date Z. This broken chair is an occupational health and safety issue. Please order a …

2015年11月3日 · Your chair is causing you pain; this isn't just a preference. Be prepared to explain how you know it's the chair and not some other aspect of your setup, but you probably won't need this detail. Do the leg-work. Don't just say you want a new chair; come with a few options of chairs that have the feature you need that your current chair lacks.

2019年3月10日 · An office-wide email was sent asking who left a broken chair in a common area. Nobody responded. This even extends to things like work assignments, where I'm still trying to get a bad assignment changed, because changing it would mean my manager admitting he …

Right, because making a chair unusable is a much better solution than just having a conversation and suggesting that maybe it's time to order a guest chair so the manager won't have to be inconvenienced by having to grab a chair from another desk every time he has a guest.

2014年10月7日 · This morning I have arrived at the office to an email notification that the toilets in the building are to be used for liquids only due to a plumbing issue. There is no ETA for resolution. The sit...

2021年7月17日 · What I will add is that technical difficulties pop-up all the time (broken laptops, VPN not working, source control unavailable); as a manager, if you want your employees to be productive during such an event, it is on you to come up …

2014年3月11日 · Given an open office layout with low-barrier cubicles setup in rows and a management assigned seating plan, how reasonable is it to request a seating change? The seating was assigned during a recent

2019年3月25日 · Elsewhere, forcing an employee to use a company-standard chair will inevitably cause some employees to suffer in silence until they leave (literally suffer back pain). Some people would choose a kneeling chair, others to work at a standing bench, others "anything except this one" (the corporate-standard one, no alternatives anywhere in the ...

2022年5月16日 · A broken car only happens a few times per year, and it's the responsibility of the worker to solve commuting anyhow, so while this may be a vis maior one day, it's definetly not for the next day. And I really don't think there's any excuse for not showing up due to shecluding a technician fixing a non-essential appliance on an in-office day.

2019年2月20日 · A desk chair is a necessity, paper towels is a luxury and a matter of personal preference. Even more of a luxury when you already have drying items (napkins and dryers). Also, the fact that they are already giving you 'luxury' items such as utensils doesn't mean they want to give you any other disposable items.