Reply to: A good workplace

[sasguru]

The best workplace is one you create yourself because you're the boss.

HTH

[DieScum]

When you are working with a bunch of married older people it can be a bit dull. they tend to be grumpier and not up for social stuff.

With young people, all blagging it together, you can become good friends. You socialise together and if something comes up at work you know a mate will really stick their neck out for you and help rather than some old dude who just wants a quiet life and home to the family.

So I have seen good and bad workplaces!

[DimPrawn]

Of course, the sex on tap ends when the wife gets home.

[Ardesco]

The site I work on provides a fridge stacked with beer, TV, comfortable sofas, landscaped gardens, baths, and sex on tap.

I work from home.

Yeah yeah whatever, you don't get sex on tap when in stable relationships, everybody knows that. You only get sex on tap when relationships are starting out!!!

[TheOmegaMan]

The site I work on provides a fridge stacked with beer, TV, comfortable sofas, landscaped gardens, baths, and sex on tap.

I work from home.

Oh so your clients come to you. Still, all that butt slamming must make
sitting down difficult.

[Xenophon]

The site I work on provides a fridge stacked with beer, TV, comfortable sofas, landscaped gardens, baths, and sex on tap.

I work from home.

I want to be like DP.

[DimPrawn]

The site I work on provides a fridge stacked with beer, TV, comfortable sofas, landscaped gardens, baths, and sex on tap.

I work from home.

[BoredBloke]

At GSK house they have a large restaurant, hairdressers, coffee bar and a mini supermarket thing on site. At Greenford, where I was based they also had a gym. At Astra Zeneca they have 4 restaurants on their Alderly Edge site. The site even had a bar and is in the middle of farmland in Cheshire – as part of the agreement when ICI got the site was that it had to stay as a working farm. It’s all landscaped etc – shame the rates were always crap!

Shell used to give everybody free food – don’t know if they still do. BP give us £5 per day on our ID badge to pay for/towards lunch.

[AtW]

I work on a modern MoD site with 4 restaurants, Ritazza cafe, shop, hairdresser, gym, tennis courts, all set in a few hundred acres of landscaped gardens with ponds and fountains, swans and ducks.

It has its own train station and it’s not in London, best place I’ve ever worked hence why I’ve hung around so long!

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[gingerjedi]

Which glasshouse is that?

I could tell you but i'd have to kill you!

I have seen both sides of the coin, I worked in a dirty factory with no windows for 12 years!

[lukemg]

Yes, most offices are broadly similar, but when you get to the extremes it makes a big difference.
Last place was terrible (fones 4 u, don't ask) Converted warehouse, noisy, small desks packed in long lines, ancient toilets, cheap uncomfortable seats, temperature either solar or polar. Basically the cheapest options throughout. New place has man made lakes, nice coffee areas, meeting rooms, airport style glass atria, well spaced desks, gym, sports hall. Yes you still have to work but it does make a difference.

[Pig]

I work on a modern MoD site with 4 restaurants, Ritazza cafe, shop, hairdresser, gym, tennis courts, all set in a few hundred acres of landscaped gardens with ponds and fountains, swans and ducks.

It has its own train station and it’s not in London, best place I’ve ever worked hence why I’ve hung around so long!

Which glasshouse is that?

[gingerjedi]

I work on a modern MoD site with 4 restaurants, Ritazza cafe, shop, hairdresser, gym, tennis courts, all set in a few hundred acres of landscaped gardens with ponds and fountains, swans and ducks.

It has its own train station and it’s not in London, best place I’ve ever worked hence why I’ve hung around so long!

[Francko]

Yes there are good and bad places to work - even as a contractor
Ive worked in both.
Even if you object to the word "workplace" it is still somewhere you are spending 8 hours or so a day - for those of us who do support/sysadmin type roles. So the atmosphere, mode of working, and relationships with the permie staff DOES make a difference.

Don't blame DimPrawn too much, his brain is still waiting for Service Pack 3.

However, I agree with you that the workplace can make a difference, but most of the time is just a setup, an excuse to pay people less by giving them a few extra perks of no values. The good companies know what motivate people, including money, and they will try to work for that (but probably they won't claim that they have a "good workplace"). The issue I see is that the companies which claim that, they very likely don't have it.

[ratewhore]

I like the cafe area at Microsoft UK where they have the fussball, xbox 360's and what have you...