ONE thing your work could do to make you much more happy.

For me, at this moment, it would be to turn up the fracking heat!

I'm wearing my coat still, in June, in California for pity's sake.

And yes, I'm whining. You'd think that an office for the government, with over 40 people in just this one department, would be warmer than 5 degrees below 'witch's tit'.

Pay me more money!!!!!!!

Hire someone competent to be my relief so I could take more than one day off at a time.

Flex schedule - the ability to work 4 - 11 hour days in a week, or work some days at home.

I actually think it would be good for my productivity, and since nothing I do really requires a physical presence, I don't see why it would be an issue.  But no, they don't do that here.

4 DAY WORK WEEKS!!!  I would much rather work longer 4 days a week!

Mine could:

-  Offer better maternity leave plan.  And; have some sort of room for Breasfeeding women instead of making them go into a stall in the bathroom (gross, I'm not doing that when I come back)

-  Flex days to work from home more often

- Turn up the AC -  I'm so hot I think I'm going to faint!

-  Bring some people back down to earth; no matter what you're level is; be nice to everyone

-  Stop hiring silly interns and fund the money towards raises and bonuses

-  Put an end to inter-departmental power struggles

Stop being so tightwad-ish when it comes to days off!  They have this absolutely stupid and inane rule that you can't take a vacation or a personal day on the work day immediately before or after a holiday.  If you do, you don't get paid for the holiday.  (So for example, if I were to take July 3 off, I would not receive holiday pay for July 4.)

Seriously, why?  Am I not a grown up who can manage my time?

(sore spot with me, thank you for the vent space.) :)

Stop hiring crazy people and then giving them to me to supervise.  Really.

My job would be so much better if I didn't have to do so much filing, I HATE filing!

And of course more money would be nice :)

Turn off the AC. I shouldn't have to put on a coat when I get to work, when I'm wearing a t-shirt outside!

A coffee machine would be nice

My main complaint is just the really noisy intersection outside, but I suppose there's not much my work could do about it

Well so far I've only worked for people who own their own business (instead of a big company/corporation), but some things they could do is be nice (are all women bosses bitchy?), not treat me like I don't know anything, not assume I can read their mind, and not leave extra things for me to do instead of doing it themselves (last boss would leave dirty cat food cans and dishes over the weekend, as well as cat puke (this was a pet boarding place)).

Mine are as follows:

Institute a work from home policy that covers more than just high level management - flex time is nice - but people are more productive at different times - my work productivity peaks at about 6:00pm... I could be doing laundry at 1:00 in the afternoon... and have an equally productive home and work life *SIGH*
(and in conjunction with this - have shared office space - would save the company $$$ on leasing while freeing up $$$ for more pay)

Pay more - seriously - don't make me beg.

Get rid of underperforming employees before the clients realize that they are dealing with idiots. Why wait until the integrity of your company is challenged?

vicereine-  that's just gross.  they shouldn't have left cat puke for you to clean up.

I once worked for a small business; the the owner and his wife would put dirty plates that were empty BACK in the fridge for me to wash; and one day the coffee pot overflowed when the boss made coffee.  I had just walked in on a monday morning; still had my coat on; and he said "Oh vanessa- you can clean that up" and then he walked away.  i was fuming.  And once he asked me to call him Daddy (I NEVER DID).  I found all these short stories on his desktop (wasn't snooping; he asked me to go through his files and clean up his unused ones)-  the short stories were filled with sex stuff-  some office sex stuff (gross)  I thought I was going to vomit!!  Then when I broke my arm in a head on car colliision; he made me lift all these boxes.  When he told me he couldn't pay me; I resigned and told him I'd sue him if he didn't pay me-  he cut a check and I was out the door.

He was a little tiny man who chewed loudly.  very creepy.  pasty pale, dark hair little mousey man.

Keeping supplies well stocked.  We're over-stocked on what we don't need and completely out of what we do need.  I had to use rubber gloves a few times today 'cause my spare tournequet that I usually keep in my pocket had to be on my tray 'cause someone jacked the two extras I keep on my tray over the weekend.

But I can't really complain 'cause it's not one of those fancy private hospitals.  We don't get gauze by the truck load.  If we did, we wouldn't have had to borrow some from outpatient today. (:

I think I'll do my co-workers a favour and order a few boxes of tournequets to keep in my locker, that way when we're out they can all suck up to me for some.

so much for the ONE thing rule ;)

at my silly little part time job, the one thing would be to install windows that open.  but since it's a supplemental learning center for school-aged children in the seediest part of a pretty damn seedy town, that's not going to happen.

Treat me with some ****ing respect, last week i was lied to about how much work they want me to do to make them look better. They constantly bitch about me too about how im struggling to understand something. (if i didnt understand i'd tell you.) But when I say I understand they say "i dont think you do" im not stupid dont tell me I have'nt learned anything in the last two years just because i choose to write briefly. If the ***** actually read it instead of looking at the amount of work i wrote she'd know i understand

this is college not work but its kinda the same. anyway I'm treated like an adult by most of the staff all except 2 members who make us ask for permission to do anything, and talk to us like children. this really annoys me... their attitudes are terrible and i want to punch them, but I cant cause im paying for this education.

 

 

Flex schedule and/or the option to work from home.  I would still get the work done but be able to do things around the house during down times rather than feel compelled to "look busy", while really just goofing off or posting on cc, during the times when I am required to be there.  Also if I worked from home I would tend to work more/longer hours rather than shutting everything down promptly at 5 pm.

Unrestricted internet access.  Forums and message boards are technically blocked, yet...  here I am.  I can go to slashdot.org, but I can't go to fark.com.

Completely inconsistent and maddening.  The best thing is that I can usually pull any non-interactive page up through Google cache.

THEME DAYS:

• Beer For Lunch Mondays
• Free Doghnuts Tuesdays
• Slap The Boss Wednesdays
• Clothing Optional Thursdays
• Half Day Fridays