Unspeakable things you see in multinationals...

[ar81]

If you go to the bathroom and kitchen of a restaurant you may have an idea of the kind of management they have.
Similar things can be seen for multinationals.

Well, today I went to the rest room in my floor filled with cubicles.
One toilet had no lock and it used to have one. Where did it go.
Another one had that plastic stuff you use to seat... broken...
The bathroom intended for disabled people is not finished, pipes have not been installed for months and there is a big hole covered with a plastic bag so rain does not get in. The hole seems to be there since it was built.
You see maintenance people taking notes to "report" the issue every day. How many reportsdoes it take to qualify for a fix?

When we moved there months ago emergency ladders were not working. Now they work.
During the first drill steps were covered with concrete dust.

Most of videobeams at conference rooms are useless. It was reported 3 weeks ago.
The company that sells food here used to service another multinational, until employees complained and they were fired.

And I attach some pictures of one bus that transported employees...
I reported it twice, and finally I sent an email to the top levels of the company.
I did not have to say too much. Pictures speak by themselves.

The company has a few years since it moved to my country.

This is a multinational, no joke.
It is advertised as a great place to work.
Of course, confidentiality clauses prevent employees to show things like this to the general public.
Because of that I will not tell you what company it is.
But still you may have a good laugh.

That's what happens when you bring your multinational here and leave it in the hands of Costa Ricans in the local top levels, who repeated those very same patterns in other multinationals in the past.

 

[Xantcha]

what is "multinational"?

 

[Urwumpe]

what is "multinational"?

I think he means multinational companies.

But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

 

[MajorTom]

Hi ar41,

Interesting post...sorry you seem disillusioned.

I remember seeing you posting a little while back about getting in trouble because you posted to the Orbiter forum from work. I hope you didn't post from work this time!

MT

 

[pattersoncr]

Are broken toilet locks, inoperable projectors, torn bus seats, and lousy food really so bad as to be unspeakable things? Especially considering you've only been in the building three months. The whole post seems a bit melodramatic to me. If you don't like working for an evil multinational, then quit.

 

[matthijskuiper]

guess all big companies have that problem all over the world.

just wait till some-one else that you needs to fix you computer. or even a siple thing as to change a light-bolb. could take up to 2 weeks with my university, but we have our own sattelite.

 

[ar81]

I thought such big companies would be far more organized than small ones.
I never said "evil". I said "unspeakable".

 

[Urwumpe]

I thought such big companies would be far more organized than small ones.

They are more organized. And as they are more organized, they don't spend money for things which don't bring them money.

 

[ar81]

They are more organized. And as they are more organized, they don't spend money for things which don't bring them money.

"Brings money" is a relative term.
There are things that are needed to make money, but they do not make money by themselves.

 

[Urwumpe]

"Brings money" is a relative term.
There are things that are needed to make money, but they do not make money by themselves.

Sure. But a clean toilet seems to be not part of it. Imagine how much time you would spend on a toilet that you can eat from (And believe me, I know the effort needed for cleaning a large public toilet).

 

[ar81]

Sure. But a clean toilet seems to be not part of it. Imagine how much time you would spend on a toilet that you can eat from (And believe me, I know the effort needed for cleaning a large public toilet).

A dirty toilet could cause health problems that would reduce productivity.
It also gives a poor image before visitors (marketing) as it is like showing them a dirty house.

 

[Torgo]

The restrooms at my old company were abysmal.. and it was a privately held small-mid size company (about 500 employees).

Toilets were broken, dirty, there was almost always puddles of urine on the floor and sometimes there was crap in places where crap didn't belong.

But the 'company' doesn't do that. The company hired people to come in and clean those issues, only to have them re-appear shortly after the cleaning.

The real problem is that people are effing slobs who don't respect the place they work, or other people they work with. And it doesn't matter how big or small your place of employment is, or in what country(ies) it's in. The company is not bad... a few individual people are.

As for big companies being more organized.... maybe there's a chance of that, but I've found that smaller places are usually much more organized, because everyone knows each other and respects each other, and there just aren't as many people to get lost in the shuffle.

 

[ar81]

Yeah, I get your point.
Local culture has a lot to do.

It is sad to see that people use that come in little sugar paper bags and leave them (garbage) there, 2 meters away from garbage can.
You tell me how much energy or effort is spent to move those to the can...

You also see young people coming with clothing that is not allowed, forcing bosses to encourage a change... Work is not a place to show off with your body.

You see suppliers trying to scam big companies. More money, less delivery. Third world business approach.

Last year during my birthday eggs from my lunch were stolen from the freezer, and company pays at least enough to buy an egg...!!! A coworker saw a pizza of hers being stolen too and the thief returned the bready borders of the pizza... :blink:

Sometimes I feel shame of the local culture.:sorry: It is an unspeakable culture...