we have a babyfoot table
The only game we have to amuse ourselves here in our company is 'teabag darts' - throwing your teabag into your cup from the other side of the kitchen while the kettle boils. Not exactly a facility laid on by the company but it keeps us going when things get particularly boring in the world of translation.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link
they had a nap room
When I worked at Dell in tech support we had a nap room... a couple of recliners, sofas and the overhead fluorescents were turned off, only a couple of table lamps. It was mostly notable because it was an actual room, not just a cubicle with high partitions and a door like 99% of the "rooms" at Dell.
― f. hazel, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 10:19 (sixteen years ago) link
My last place of work had table football & pool, which wasn't particularly unusual I guess, but it was good for slacking off mid-afternoon. Current place has nothing but a small TV room that no-one ever uses AFAIK. I guess this company makes up for lack of amenities with heavy drinking culture, we're surrounded by bars (well this is Soho). Although mass lunchtime sessions are almost a thing of the past now, they're kinda frowned upon these days (company was bought out).
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
We have showers and lockers for Cyclists.
AND A ROLLERCOASTER!!!
― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Now that's just too much.
― Bonita Applebum, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a shower room in the office I work in too. We also have a prayer room. Which given we're a Government Department would, I suspect, make Daily Mail readers absolutely livid.
― Stone Monkey, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Are there prayer rugs along with rosary beads and yarmulkes available?
― Bonita Applebum, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
there was a brothel in the reel room of the press hall in our old building
― stet, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
gbx you are totally right and awesome. Altho I wd have to transport all make-up and personal care items too. Or else buy duplicates. But that could be arranged.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
So in conclusion: still jealous.
We've got showers in our office, but that's just because the bosses appear never to go home. I'm not convinced some of them even *have* homes, since one guy swanned off to the other end of the country today on business for a few weeks at less than a day's notice.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I've worked at the Spirella Building, but I remember no ballroom. There are a number of large function halls though.
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
in antarctica they had all kinds of crazy shit set up--bars, music rooms, a coffee house--but that was more about us being stuck there than the jobs.
we have pilates classes at my work now. you still get paid but it costs $50 so it doesn't exactly even out.
― jergïns, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nsa.gov/about/about00017.cfm
also they have a "meditation (read: nap) room," on-site daycare for a lucky few, and a breast pumping room, but I strongly doubt table tennis sets or drum kits were around anywhere. then again...
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i suspect tomboto, el would grumble about the perks at ooglegay
― youn, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
and yeah FBI hq of course has a full gym and firing range, plus the 8th floor canteen and gift shop + outdoor smoking patio, where you could stare at tourists from on high while enjoying your cancer sticks in the sunshine
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
jergins you lived in antarctica???? did you "over-winter?"
i just read some website about living in antarctica. it was pretty funny! sounds like there was a lot of shenanigans down there. most of the stories sounded like college and/or being a ski bum
― gbx, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
just one summer. yeah, lots of shenanigans, but also 54 hour work weeks. people drank a LOT. and crossdressed a lot. that was a work perk: anything anyone brought down there got left there, so we had a fine choice of wigs and halloween costumes.
― jergïns, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I would like to hear about unusual faculties for employees, like x-ray vision or spider sense. Only as it applies to their jobs, tho.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Tills that print stuff like this:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44437000/jpg/_44437628_ruderbill_two203.jpg
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Least it was free.
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Grozart, here's a link to the ballroom at spirella: http://www.spirella.com/ballroom.htm
Looks nice, eh? More to the point, I love the idea that somehow the original boss felt that a ballroom would engender a positive atmosphere among staff.
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Are there prayer rugs along with rosary beads and yarmulkes available?-- Bonita Applebum, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:16 (Yesterday) Link
-- Bonita Applebum, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:16 (Yesterday) Link
As I don't do the prayer thing, I've never been in the prayer room. Presumably, those items of prayer equipment you'd bring along for yourself.
― Stone Monkey, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Best on site facilities?
Free restaurant, and a dentist that was run at cost prices.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Blimey, Mark, where was that?
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link