Cool facilities at your place of work.

Ruu_Old

I started a new job at the beginning of June in a library and only found out that they have a shower in the lower level for employees. My supervisor said if people come to work on a bike in the warm weather or go for a run at lunch that they can take a quick shower. Never heard of this before but thought it was a good idea. I'm still waiting to find out if there is an employee game room.

Jigsaw

In my work there are not only showers etc but also a gym, although the gym is a bit sh1te to be fair.

hussey

We have a beer/Wine fridge every Friday :cool:

Charlie

Ruu wrote: »

I started a new job at the beginning of June in a library and only found out that they have a shower in the lower level for employees. My supervisor said if people come to work on a bike in the warm weather or go for a run at lunch that they can take a quick shower. Never heard of this before but thought it was a good idea. I'm still waiting to find out if there is an employee game room.

Library, ya big nerd.

Ah no, just don't be a prick. I don't want to generalize, but having spent 5 years in two different colleges, I always found the library staff to be pompus ****.

Agent Smith

hussey wrote: »

We have a beer/Wine fridge every Friday :cool:

damm, all we get is free tea and coffee

hussey

Oh also have a BBQ area on our roof ...
attached is image of my view

minxie

hussey wrote: »

Oh also have a BBQ area on our roof ...
attached is image of my view

class man......:D:D:D

Ruu_Old

charlie mchugh wrote: »

Library, ya big nerd.

Ah no, just don't be a prick. I don't want to generalize, but having spent 5 years in two different colleges, I always found the library staff to be pompus ****.

:)Nah, it is a public library. Great place to work too, brand new building. Still figuring out all the new rooms.

Weidii

In my old job we had a pool table, tv and dvd player in the staff room. Sometimes the lads took in a playstation. 'twas kinda cool.

Traq

We have a beer/Wine fridge every Friday

As soon as I read this I knew you were in Australia. A regular occurrence in my office too!



Edit: I could also just have looked at your location of course, would have figured it out there too!

hussey

Traq wrote: »

As soon as I read this I knew you were in Australia. A regular occurrence in my office too!

Sucks to be them!

Xavi6

We also have a shower and a BBQ downstairs for a good ol' sausage sizzle.

Also have a good few hotties about the place which is a handy facility in itself.

kmart6

Now I def wanna move to Oz to work after college:D

Bob the Builder

absoloutley no facilites worth mentioning really.

because half the business is printing, we just have a really high quality printer worth about 50k that i can use whenever i want. thats about it for me really. there's feck all facilities but i love the job...

AlmightyCushion

We have an xbox 360 in the staff canteen. It's mainly used for playing dvds though.

partyatmygaff

two laptops, 8mb wireless connection, my n95, huge pizza oven, deep fryer etc with pizza on demand (lol )
free coke, diet coke etc as much as you want.
Huge Colour laser printer in office.

Only thing missing is a bed and im right at home

The Roach

Hmm, facilities in work... well there's a gym, library, bank, 2 coffee huts (that I know of!), free tea, coffee and soft drinks, 26Mb/sec broadband (according to Speedtest.net:D), showers, and I've been told there's a dry-cleaners tucked away in here somewhere. I'm sure there's other stuff that I don't know about, but that's enough I reckon!

BraziliaNZ

we get a beer fridge every fri. I think it's an aussie thing. The shower in the office thing is normal these days, can't believe OP never heard of it.

One Cold Hand

Traq wrote: »

As soon as I read this I knew you were in Australia. A regular occurrence in my office too!



Edit: I could also just have looked at your location of course, would have figured it out there too!

Must be a standard office thing in Oz, my office has it too. I'll cracking open my first Coopers Vintage in about 2hrs 43mins. Not that I'm clock watching or anything!

Xavi6

Damn Victorians and your finishing work before me

/shakes fist

One Cold Hand

Yeah but when we're queing for a taxi home your night is just getting under way!

BraziliaNZ

I don't think so Melbourne is party city Perth is dead at 3 or 4!!!!

Xavi6

Not dead by any means. Plenty of spots still pumpin at 5am

One Cold Hand

Xavi6 wrote: »

Plenty of spots still pumpin at 5am

there's definately scope for a sister or mother joke to be inserted here...

Xavi6

Lol yeah that one sat up nicely for a volley alright!

hussey

Xavi6 wrote: »

Not dead by any means. Plenty of spots still pumpin at 5am

One Cold Hand wrote: »

there's definitely scope for a sister or mother joke to be inserted here...

I'll be still pumpin yore sister @ 5am

BraziliaNZ

I don't have a sister to pump

Xavi6

See THIS is exactly why we need an Australia forum. Four Aussie residents completely derailing a perfectly good AH thread!

(And there's not a single mod around to stop us! /evil laugh)

hussey

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I don't have a sister to pump

Well I hate to break it to you ..

Overheal

A shower at work sounds like an awesome idea. Goodbye sweaty armpits

Employees at Samuel Adams Brewery in USA get beer while they work and beer to take home... I think im in the wrong field.

One Cold Hand

hussey wrote: »

I'll be still pumpin yore sister @ 5am

Oh yeah! I would never have thought of that one!

Jesus Wept

Ruu wrote: »

I started a new job at the beginning of June in a library and only found out that they have a shower in the lower level for employees. My supervisor said if people come to work on a bike in the warm weather or go for a run at lunch that they can take a quick shower. Never heard of this before but thought it was a good idea. I'm still waiting to find out if there is an employee game room.

charlie mchugh wrote: »

I always found the library staff to be pompus ****.

That's Ruu in a nutshell tbh. :rolleyes::p

One Cold Hand

Overheal wrote: »

Employees at Samuel Adams Brewery in USA get beer while they work and beer to take home... I think im in the wrong field.

So they're all half cut while making it? No wonder it tastes like sh1t...

BraziliaNZ

They'd have to pay me to drink Samuel Adams, it's piss. But I suppose the employees are being paid anyway so...

Traq

One Cold Hand wrote: »

Must be a standard office thing in Oz, my office has it too. I'll cracking open my first Coopers Vintage in about 2hrs 43mins. Not that I'm clock watching or anything!

Just saw a few cartons being dropped down to the kitchen area there now so I'll let them chill a little bit and then make my way down there. Still recovering from all the beers after the team meeting yesterday evening though!

One Cold Hand

Hair of the dog! You'll be flying in an hour! Come on weekend...

Xavi6

Damn right. Only 1hr and 45mins left for me.

deadfingers

Yes I am also working in Sydney and I will be raiding the beer fridge in about 20 mins and having as much cheeso's as I can eat!!!!

We also have a fussball table, table tennis, tv's but no BBQ!!:mad:

sebastianlieken

...we have a water dispenser:)..... water dispenser is broked now though....i miss water dispenser......:(

Just literally found out that theres this "breakfast thing" going on out on the work floor...FREE DRINKS, i is happy now....i haz my fanta

dade

last place i was in had a shower and then had a TV in the canteen, another place had a pool table and TV in the canteen, but with only 30 minutes for your break you didn't get much time.

the place I'm in now has........... fruit every week they get a load of fruit in. Oh and we're up stairs from a magazine publishers so the models come in every now and again and suddenly theres a mass exodus from our office.

Lirange

The-Rigger wrote: »

That's Ruu in a nutshell tbh. :rolleyes::p

Ruu is a Watcher. Like Giles.

Sherifu

We have a shower here, it can be very handy I'd like some of those pods i've seen in google offices, they look cool.

prendy

i work in Dublin and we have the beer fridge thing, have to wait hours yet though!

Stench Blossoms

Free beer on a Friday, A gym, Games room which has an xbox, wii, ps2, ps3 and a drum kit. Pool tables as well. Massage Room.

I'm sure there is more but i can't think of anything else at the moment.

KTRIC

As many mobile phones as I can carry. Getting a bit sick of them at this stage. I only want one that works.:D

Thats a lot to ask in here though :rolleyes:

Naos

Prendy, what time do they open the fridge / it's acceptable to start beering?

We have a gym in my place with showers obviously. Can't think of anything else too cool, bar lots of free drink whenever we go out on staff parties.

Edit: Those with free beer in Dublin, I trust ye work for G****e? Never heard of any other companies doing this...

snollup

When I was about 18 (long time ago) I worked in Virgin Megastore in Dub. They has a class canteen with pool table, games machine and all the coke(a-cola) you could drink. Very little work got done.
Once worked for Citibank in Dub too. They had all that you'd expect form big US bank, gym, Starbucks, big canteen, all that jazz. Used the gym once I think. Was very weird working out in front of the boss. Reckon all the info from gym was fed into central computer to see how fit the staff were! And no, I'm not paranoid. Is it was all an effort to keep people at work longer?

Free fruit on Mondays, all the tea/coffee I can drink, and almost completely unblocked internet (bar youtube).

There's a big plasma screen in the canteen but it's for work messages and stuff.

Gone West

Only about 40 people working in my place, so these are individual luxuries
The girls in the canteen will cook whatever you ask, The lunch menu is emailed to everybody at 11.

Showers, the people in the canteen will take phone orders and drop food up to your desk, theres a 150 acre well maintained garden, with forests, neat grass, etc outside, which is great to read a book during lunch(and take a 2 hours lunch if its sunny!).

I know its not a facility, but theres a beach down the road which is great for lunchin too.

Few plasma screens for watching the networks, but also play dvds

Rest room with a bed, and even an extra heavy curtains if the light is hurting your eyes >_>

Ron DMC

prendy wrote: »

i work in Dublin and we have the beer fridge thing, have to wait hours yet though!

Where do I send my CV?

prendy

Naos wrote: »

Prendy, what time do they open the fridge / it's acceptable to start beering?

We have a gym in my place with showers obviously. Can't think of anything else too cool, bar lots of free drink whenever we go out on staff parties.

Edit: Those with free beer in Dublin, I trust ye work for G****e? Never heard of any other companies doing this...

its not google, dont wanna name them coz i should be working!

its acceptable after half 4 but on Fridays if theres not much to do it could be earlier. We also have all the soft drinks we want all the time but thats about it. would love if we had a gym!