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Such tasks might be common in small companies as they are trying to save wherever they can. I know of a small company (5-7 employees) located in a small town where employees take turns in taking out trash.
Such tasks might be common in small companies as they are trying to save wherever they can. I know of a small company (5-7 employees) located in a small town where employees take turns in taking out trash.
Every small company I've ever worked for(say 15 employees or less) has had an employee take out the trash - is this unusual?! I've never thought so but I sure am sick of walking a fifth of a mile to the dumpster with stinky trash every day...
I think this situation is total B.S. and a warning shot you should heed. Perhaps you cannot/should not leave now, but you should seriously monitor the culture of that place.
Some thoughts:
1) Would they have expected you to do something so crazy if you were a woman?
2) What if you had injured or compromised yourself in some way? They must not be very diligent about workplace safety, OSHA, etc.
3) Companies usually roll out the welcome mat for new employees. Doesn't appear that happened in your case.
I think this situation is total B.S. and a warning shot you should heed. Perhaps you cannot/should not leave now, but you should seriously monitor the culture of that place.
Some thoughts:
1) Would they have expected you to do something so crazy if you were a woman?
2) What if you had injured or compromised yourself in some way? They must not be very diligent about workplace safety, OSHA, etc.
3) Companies usually roll out the welcome mat for new employees. Doesn't appear that happened in your case.
that's what I'm saying! I'm a woman and nobody EVER asked me to assemble furniture. And I would give them an excuse. I actually have a herniated disc in my lower back and documents to prove that, so that's my excuse, cupcake. Anybody doesn't buy the disc thing, I'd bring the paperwork and xrays to stick in their face. Following that, I would quit on the spot. But that's me. I don't let people walk all over me. A lot of other people would probably assemble the furniture like the good sheep.
Every small company I've ever worked for(say 15 employees or less) has had an employee take out the trash - is this unusual?! I've never thought so but I sure am sick of walking a fifth of a mile to the dumpster with stinky trash every day...
it's a far cry from taking out trash and assembling chairs, desks or anything.
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Interesting. I have worked a couple of places where there would be a union grievance filed because you are taking away some laborer's job. Such assembly required a work order, and waiting a few weeks until they got around to it. Of course, a good supervisor would have arranged it in advance of the employee's first day.
I want my $100/hour computer engineers to be coding and debugging projects, not assembling furniture. They are making me more money staying on task. It's cheaper for me to pay a minimum wage worker to assemble several pieces.
In general, there are more min. wage workers in larger companies.
Funny I work for a fortune 100 company and we have zero min wage employees. Typically an employee on their first day or two isn't going to be doing crap anyhow so let's not get carried away with your wasted 100.00 a hour
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Anybody doesn't buy the disc thing, I'd bring the paperwork and xrays to stick in their face. Following that, I would quit on the spot. But that's me. I don't let people walk all over me. A lot of other people would probably assemble the furniture like the good sheep.
