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This is a potential liability for the company. Not only could the employee injure themselves while trying to assemble a desk or bookcase or whatever, but the employee could also appear to have assembled the desk correctly when they really didn't, and the desk could collapse on their legs at some point in the future. Why would a company take that risk?
Very good point. Especially about the desk/chair collapsing, now you have a worker's comp claim and someone out on disability.
A few years ago after being laid off I had to take a temp job. I dealt with the fact that I was doing work that I was overqualified for, and just smiled and did it. It was an Admn. Asst position.
However I drew the line and spoke up when I was asked to go run some errands and go pick up lunch. It said right in the temp contract that you're not to do any off site tasks, and you're not covered under worker's comp if you do.
So if you were to go run to Office Depot and on the way back you get t-boned and you're injured, you're not covered, as you were doing tasks you weren't supposed to.
I told them "sorry, I can't do any errands offsite", I kept the position till the end of the assignment and they never asked again.
I don't think the person's boss who asked the OP to put together his desk, would be thrilled if he got injured and the new employee was out on benefits due to the desk collapsing on day three of the new job.
is this like a thing now? Do offices expect their new employees to assemble their own office furniture?
At the place I currently work I had to buy my own desk and put it together. The other 4 people crammed into the same office have to make do with fold-up plastic tables from Costco. We also have the only bathroom with wheelchair access in our "office", so we have people wheeled in and out all day.
So I arrived at work for my first day and all of my furniture was in my office...... in boxes.
My boss goes "do u think this will be hard to put together?"
Naturally, I said "i dont know....."...cuz I dont... I'm not a carpenter/contractor who assembles furniture.
So here I am with a screwdriver and ratchet in hand putting together some chairs. I didn't sign up for this
is this like a thing now? Do offices expect their new employees to assemble their own office furniture?
Pffff.
When I first got my current job, I was told to find an empty space and take it over.
This is a potential liability for the company. Not only could the employee injure themselves while trying to assemble a desk or bookcase or whatever, but the employee could also appear to have assembled the desk correctly when they really didn't, and the desk could collapse on their legs at some point in the future. Why would a company take that risk?
that got to be one of the lamest excuse every. its like telling a carpenter not to use a hammer.
My job is no where near my job description... after the CEO retired we have had a string of Administrators and CEOs...
Some of their demands have been excessive... I never flatly have said no and always say I will do my best to work it into the schedule.
Put them on the spot once...
Got a memo telling me to have the entry pressure washed for Monday and memo was sent Friday at 1 pm... I'm the Director of Engineering and we do not have this equipment available in house.
Let the new Boss know it would be difficult to get someone on such short notice... She got mad and said YOU do it... well one of the contractors called and said he had me penciled in and would do it on a Sunday for $600 which is a deal for a very large entry that is 2 1/2 stories tall.
Boss got livid and said it was my responsibility and stormed out...
I paid the contractor out of my pocket the $600 and when tax time came put it down on my taxes as a unreimbursed employee expense... the CPA ask for a letter from the company in case I was audited...
Put in a request for the letter and HR got upset... the next day I had a check for $600 in my mailbox without a word.
Things are not as cut and dry anymore... at least when resume's keep coming in with people looking for work...
One of the Doctors had a 6 month pregnant office manager... office of 3 including the Doc... she was struggling to put together some office furniture and asked if she could borrow a few tools... I ended up doing it on my lunch break... her boss simply told her to do it and left...
Wow.. No way would I expect unreimbursed out of pocket expense as acceptable for any business entity. Also accommodating a pregnant mother is simply being a decent human being. Terrible boss you have there. Definitely excessive.
Wow.. No way would I expect unreimbursed out of pocket expense as acceptable for any business entity. Also accommodating a pregnant mother is simply being a decent human being. Terrible boss you have there. Definitely excessive.
The pregnant woman's Doctor leased office space from the Hospital... so she worked for a Doctor and not the Hospital which I work for... 23 years now.
Still remember another time we were having a VIP site visit and the Boss wanted all the red curbs painted... guess who did that... boy did I get a lot of comments about who did I **** off...
Pays the same... it's been very hard the last few years with the turmoil in the Healthcare industry... lots of downsizing and outsourcing... I'm the only full time left in my department and this is because someone needs to be available 24/7...
Pays the same... it's been very hard the last few years with the turmoil in the Healthcare industry... lots of downsizing and outsourcing... I'm the only full time left in my department and this is because someone needs to be available 24/7...
that what a lot of people here and other place can't understand. Its pays the same. doesn't matter if its sweeping floors, washing windows, painting curbs or push paperwork on a desk you put together. its all pays the same.
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