Wacky workplace "amenities"

[WhimsyTheFae]

Free cocoa? Showers?
Heck I just started a new job last week, and I'm ecstatic because I actually have an office with a DOOR!
First time I haven't been a cubical farmer in 15 years!

Yeah, an office with a door was an amenity...before the remodel (I hate cubicles - it's harder to sit on EN World without being noticed)...

 

[DaveMage]

The only amenity we have where I work is that they let me breathe the air...

 

[buzzard]

The only amenity we have where I work is that they let me breathe the air...

For free?

 

[orchid blossom]

I worked briefly for the government (that contracted ended). They had a water cooler. I would get water out of it occasionally. Then one day a co-worker told me that I needed to stop, because there was a monthly fee of $5 to get into the group of people who had access to it. I thought he was joking. He wasn't. I guess I should be glad that they didn't waste taxpayer money with extravagances like bottled water.

I work for the government and this is the case at my job too. Water club, coffee club, Sunshine club (if you want them to celebrate your birthday), it goes on and on. When I first started a co-worker teased me saying "Fifty cents to use the microwave." I didn't know then how believeable it actually was!

As for amenities, let's see.... I get people constantly calling my phone who want a totally different department. We also have an "open" floor plan; which basically means set up like cublicles but without the walls (hope you like your neighbors! All five of them.) We got a hold of some of the short cublicle walls, just to basically have something to hang things on and at least separate the rows, but they don't have the pieces to hold them up, so we have them wedged up between our desks.

On the upside we are out in the country in a separate building, so we have fantastic parking, where most government workers have to take shuttles from their parking lots. The cafeteria has Taco Salad day every other Monday, and we get an in house Christmas party, which basically means we get to sit around and snack all day, get fed by our bosses for lunch, and fool around all afternoon. The bosses also cook us a cook-out lunch in the summer.

Lastly, there is a room in our building with 4 showers, (not that unusual), and two fully made beds, right down to the pillows and comforters. Why are they there???

 

[Agamon]

At the office where I work, the company has piped in music to the restrooms. Just the restrooms, nowhere else. What music, you ask? It's the local "lite rock" station. I have to listen to Celine Dion or Air Supply every time I go to the can.

Lucky you. At my workplace, the lite rock plays everywhere but the bathroom. Thank Creative for my mp3 player.

Oh, and on behalf of all Canadians, sorry about Celine. She's probably the only one of our many female exports that I'm not proud of (well, Alanis Morissette and Pam Anderson ride the line...)