I didn’t know it was still a mystery for some, but a US court just ruled that managers asking receptionists to get coffee for them is not a discriminatory act.
I know it may be demeaning to have to grab coffee for your boss, but if you’ve signed on as a receptionist, aren’t you sort of expecting various fetch and prepare type tasks? If you don’t like it, quit and find a different job. Seems simple enough to me, though I guess these days it’s more like, quit (or get fired for refusing in this case), sue, then find a new place to work. Good to know some courts still wear their common sense hats for these cases.
File that under go fetch me a Mountain Dew!
Tags: receptionist, fetching coffee
Feel like taking a smoke break in the office bathroom? Perhaps that’s not such a great idea…
Tags: smoking at work, funny video
The last poll asked you whether or not you have ever pranked a coworker. Well. This time we find out if you have ever been on the recieving side of an office prank. So let’s have it. Have you ever been pranked by a coworker?
I definitely have been pranked a few times – though none have ever been all that bad. Most have been pretty tame pranks involving messing with my computer… nothing too elaborate. It’s actually been awhile since I’ve been pranked – perhaps I need to start a prank war or something.
Last week’s poll asked you whether or not you’ve pranked a coworker – the final results are below.
Have you ever pranked a coworker?
- Yes (80% – 45 Votes)
- No (20% – 11 Votes)
I’m please with the turnout considering it was this blog’s first poll. Obviously the results are a little skewed in favor of pranking as this site’s reader’s likely have a better sense of humor and are more “fun loving” than your average office worker. Apparently 20% of you need to get off your butts and prank a work buddy. With a pretty large list of office pranks to be had, what exactly are you waiting for?
Tags: office pranks
Yahoo has posted up a list of the 6 most annoying coworkers – a list of general types of coworkers that really get under your skin in the office.
There’s nothing really new or unique about this list, but it’s always fun to categorize your own coworkers with the provided list to see just where the fall. The “Buzzwordsmith” is probably the one I hate the most, as those kind of people just full of the kind of BS that really annoys me. I’d probably most likely fall under the “Naysayer” category, but I’m usually busy shooting down ideas because they are just plain bad ideas. Of course, I’m sure that’s what all naysayers say.
Tags: annoying coworkers
So what do you do when you’ve got 30 minutes left at work but are completely bored out of your mind? Start a huge office nerf war of course!
Thanks to Paul for sending in the link to the video!
Tags: office nerf war
I don’t think it helps IT stereotypes much when new information reveals that one-third of IT employees admit to secretly snooping on coworkers. What kind of info are they sneaking a peak at? Oh just minor things like salary information and personal emails. 47 percent admit to having accessed at least some sort of information that was not relevant to their role in the company.
I don’t think this new study reveals anything we didn’t already assume. 33% actually seems a bit low to me, though I guess it is a job threatening act, so 1 of 3 risking their jobs just to check out some emails does seem kind of crazy. Perhaps sending porn to your buddies via your company email isn’t such a good idea anymore?
File that under don’t piss off your IT coworkers.
Tags: snooping on coworkers, it professionals
Child pornography is a hot topic right now. I’m sure most people would agree that if an employee is found to have child porn on their work computer, they should be fired immediately. Of course, what happens when that person wasn’t the one who downloaded that porn? For Michael Fiola, the fact that a virus was the cause of the porn apparently doesn’t change things for his career as a Department of Industrial Accidents investigator.
I can kind of understand a company being quick to pull the trigger on firing the guy before figuring out how the porn got there, but now that they know, how the heck can they stand by their initial decision? I’m usually very against people suing their former employers for their termination, but in this case, the guy totally deserves getting paid. Not only was he fired, but his name was dragged through the mud as a child pornography watcher. And even after it was been proven that not only was it not him who downloaded the porn, but a virus that was let run loose by faulty security on the computer that was setup by the company!
File that under viruses are pedophiles.
Tags: computer virus
A new study has revealed that 60% of Canadian employees have used their office printer for personal use. That number may seem high initially, until you check out the top personal use – printing out maps and directions – with 59 per cent of employees admitted they do so using the office printer.
I’m wondering how that number isn’t significantly higher considering just about everybody I know has used the office printer for at least some sort of personal reason. Most of the other personal uses listed on the survey seem about right; online purchase confirmations, personal emails, and news articles each with 39-40% of employees. 20 percent apparently use the printer for color photos, something I have yet to see. And of course, 1 percent admin to using the printer for their own resumes – something that definitely takes guts.
File that under personal use is office use.
Tags: office printers
A recent study of 18-24 year olds has revealed that 39% would consider quitting their jobs if their office banned Facebook. Along with that number 21 percent say they would be annoyed by such a ban.
Hmm… using my amazing mathemathical genius, I have deduced that 60% of 18-24 year old office workers actually use Facebook, and use it enough to miss it quite a bit if they couldn’t use it in the office. I’m only a few years above that 24 year old mark and I have yet to ever use Facebook and still don’t see the value of most of the social networks out there (ok, so I used LinkedIn for a bit, but couldn’t care less about being able to access it at work).
I can understand being slightly annoyed at your favorite social network being blocked at work, but to actually consider quitting over it? Maybe they don’t really like their job in the first place or something… I just don’t get it.
File that under quitbook.
Tags: facebook, social networks
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