Any employers doing anything "sound" in the nice weather?

theyoungchap

I was wondering if any employers were doing anything nice for staff in the hot weather?

eigrod

theyoungchap wrote: »

I was wondering if any employers were doing anything nice for staff in the hot weather?

Mine has the air conditioning on.

breadmond

We got an icecream van yesterday

iphone6

Told to claim for one ice cream with the expenses

ectoraige

Distributed ice-creams to all the staff

Blacktie.

Nope.

gerrybbadd

I bought ice creams for the staff in my building here. I'm not the employer though, just middle management

titan18

Nah, we asked could we wear more casual clothes similar to Friday instead of the shirt and tie and got nothing. Bit annoying as females in the office get away with wearing more casual clothes anyway and have more choice but for males its shirt, tie and suit pants.

Westernyelp

Told to feck of to the beach yesterday afternoon. We did. Had to buy our own icecream though!

shirazhyder84

Free ice-cream for every one

killanena

Relaxed dress code, free cold bottled water and aircon is cranked to the top. I don't even notice the weather as my office has no windows so when I go outside for a smoke I get some blast of heat

gerrybbadd

titan18 wrote: »

Nah, we asked could we wear more casual clothes similar to Friday instead of the shirt and tie and got nothing. Bit annoying as females in the office get away with wearing more casual clothes anyway and have more choice but for males its shirt, tie and suit pants.

If the ladies can wear skirts, nothing stopping the lads from wearing the same!

judeboy101

Mine gave me 11 weeks paid holidays.

Mc Love

We had an ice-cream van visit the office. Allowed leave early once all the work is done.

BobMc

Left early Tue & wed. 4pm (instead of 5) hoping for same today

pwisp

Ice creams and allowed to wear shorts

Misguided1

Ice cream van coming tomorrow!

yabadabado

titan18 wrote: »

Nah, we asked could we wear more casual clothes similar to Friday instead of the shirt and tie and got nothing. Bit annoying as females in the office get away with wearing more casual clothes anyway and have more choice but for males its shirt, tie and suit pants.

Just copy what the women are wearing.a nice summer dress would cool you right down

GBX

Was told with a wink ... if you work, you'll get paid

titan18

yabadabado wrote:

Just copy what the women are wearing.a nice summer dress would cool you right down

It's not just the dresses, although I do really want to see if I could pull it off in work . They get to wear short sleeved tops and stuff cos they tend to be a bit more dressy than a male version of same. Few in during the week with sleeveless tops. No male would get away with that in our work though

yabadabado

I'd love to see someone in that position dress identical to one of the women and see a manager try and call them up on it.
Be absolute murder.

Lux23

If some poor man has a heart attack in his suit and tie, I hope that company gets a comeuppance. Why any office worker needs to wear a suit every day is beyond me, it is madness.

tiredblondie

eigrod wrote: »

Mine has the air conditioning on.

Ours turned the air con OFF....true story!!! Handed out a couple of desk fans instead (which blow hot air as it gets hotter!)

Tar.Aldarion

There was a bbq at my work.

Cantona's Collars

yabadabado wrote: »

Just copy what the women are wearing.a nice summer dress would cool you right down

Bus drivers in Sweden did similar,no shorts allowed so they all turned up in skirts.

mloc123

Lux23 wrote: »

If some poor man has a heart attack in his suit and tie, I hope that company gets a comeuppance. Why any office worker needs to wear a suit every day is beyond me, it is madness.

My vision of hell... our office has people in shorts and flipflops (I would never wear em to work) from May on most years.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Icecream!

facehugger99

We're allowed to open the windows.

pauliebdub

Nothing at all, we still have to wear business clothes and there is no air conditioning.

Lux23

You must be in bits.

ILikeBoats

Had an ice cream van after lunch

galway321

Just got an email saying we can all leave at 12pm tomorrow - we normally leave at 4 on a Friday so happy days

LollipopJimmy

Relaxed dress code and ice cream. We will likely be sent home after lunch tomorrow but that's more down to it being the last day of the 1/4 and as a business we've smashed our target.

uck51js9zml2yt

If mine got ice cream for us, some fecker would put in an FOI and write a piece in a national newspaper over how we wasted money

fritzelly

Ice creams for us plus I'm sat in the direct line of fire for the AC

Ohmeha

My employer and all my management have total contempt to their staff so I suppose it's sound of them that they have not turned the air conditioning off and made us work late

TheBully

My employer keeps pointing out that we are not allowed wear shorts, but everyday the lads come in wearing shorts

OldMrBrennan83

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n!ghtmancometh

Nope, but can dress casually anyway as its civil service. Modern building with aircon and chilled water cooler etc. Have my hours worked up for flexi next month, so in at 8 and out the door at 4 tomorrow!

Twenty Grand

Flexitiming the f*ck out of this week. Out the door at 4 tuesday and yesterday and 3 today.

Going in early is a balls, but it's worth it to get out. Got ice cream yesterday and was reliably informed more tomorrow.

ianobrien

We had a BBQ laid on today along with ice-cream (and none of your Mr Whippy van stuff). Oh it was grand out in the outdoor seating area they just built, eating the burger, munching on salad and listening to music.



To be fair, all of this was planned before the fine weather arrived..

Teyla Emmagan

We were told our team meeting would be held outside yesterday so I chose to go to an hour long meeting on regulatory compliance instead. Too hot for me to stay outside for more than ten minutes.

Atlantic Dawn

My first law I would pass as president is shorts allowed at 25 degrees in all workplaces.

I estimate my work output is down 25% plus with the heat.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Work from home. Most days I'm just wearing shorts.

collie0708

Our office all got a half day on Wednesday which was great.

beertons

I work with my dad. Today was the first day he wore shorts to work in 26 years. I knew he'd get it eventually!

I wear shorts, May to September at work.

Sunny Dayz

The boss bought us magnum ice creams on Monday, he does that anytime there’s a nice day. As it’s predicted to be nice for the foreseeable future we’ve asked him to hold off on any more ice creams, one of us has holidays coming up and another has a wedding so we are trying to keep the waistlines in check!

Atlantic Dawn

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

The boss bought us magnum ice creams on Monday, he does that anytime there’s a nice day. As it’s predicted to be nice for the foreseeable future we’ve asked him to hold off on any more ice creams, one of us has holidays coming up and another has a wedding so we are trying to keep the waistlines in check!

Ah the sweat would burn it off no need to worry about calories this weather

dragonfly!

We dont have air con and we cant open the windows as there is a waste disposal company in the same business park as us so the smell is horrendous
Just going to melt away here...

ectoraige

Twenty Grand wrote: »

Flexitiming the f*ck out of this week. Out the door at 4 tuesday and yesterday and 3 today.

I'd say you're not the only one, I always start work at 7am so roads are normally dead quiet, except for the odd delivery van. This last week there's been a noticeable increase in early morning traffic.

bennyineire

Normal hours are 8.30 to 5.30 with 1 hour lunch break.
Since Wednesday we have been coming in at 7, having a long morning break around 10 and then home for 2 (without lunch break).

Been extended until next week too, it's voluntary so we don't have too. But we are all doing it (12 of us)