New employer has too many rules, not comfortable, need Advice

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And what happens when there is NO interview!

System

Sounds like culture shock of going from big fish in little pond to little fish in big pond

DKLS

CCFC_80 wrote: »

I can relate to the OP's issues but you just have to get on with it.
I have recently started a new job and was surprised to learn also no eating at desk when also allowed to eat at desk always previously in about 30 years of similar clerical positions. Each employer to their own and I ain't gonna rock the boat. I'm not gonna look for a new job on the basis I can't eat at my desk.

I understand that, but based on my current line management of 10 on -site coders I couldn't give a fig what they wear or if they eat and drink at their desks, I care about whether they deliver good good in a timely fashion and imposing draconian, petty and miserable rules would ruin the team dynamic and productivity.

The current team are happy, motivated and talented, they are a pretty much stereotypical coders, usually wearing jeans, trainers and an assortment of gaming, heavy metal and band t-shirts and each one has their own stash of coffee.
One has an army of lego mini figures around his workstation. , perhaps I should do a risk assessment to discover if a small yellow piece of lego could attract rodents or break expensive IT kit?

All I ask of them dress wise is that they are suited and booted for client visits, or adopt the dress code if they are working on client site.

buglawton

The ceramic cup rule of OP's new employer jogged a memory of an old employer where one programmer threw a china mug at another during a heated argument (it was a narrow miss, dangerous but no-one got dismissed). Maybe that's why they have the rule! But over the years I've seen loads of drinks spillages in the IT dept. In the days of desktop tower computers and separate keyboards that wasn't a big issue, nowadays with high end laptops around, it is. I keep my drink on a faraway part of the desk. I think staff should not be discouraged from drinking water regularly during the working day.

I notice in the office that women are allowed to wear a much wider variety of clothing, even quite skimpy in summer, while men seem to be under pressure to dress more conservatively.

theoretica

f1621688 wrote: »

I think I cringed a bit at the colour of jeans and policy against ceramic cups. They don't have a formal dress code btw and I have seen various coloured trousers so far and ladies with fancy bunny handbags. I mean what does it matter?

What does it matter works both ways - is wearing tidy trousers such a hardship for some people? I remain me, whatever I need to wear.

shortcrust

What a shocker. A workplace with rules and a hierarchy. I feel for the OP's employer. Canvasing opinions about the MD and workplace rules in the first two weeks in the job spells trouble to me.

ohreally

DKLS wrote: »

perhaps I should do a risk assessment to discover if a small yellow piece of lego could attract rodents or break expensive IT kit?

Would you be as relaxed if the yellow piece of Lego was substituted for a mug of coffee. Spilled coffee mugs and pc's tend not to mix well.

Food and drink to be consumed in the area provided for in welfare regs.

Errata

Why would an employer ban jeans? Because that gives staff the chance to wear them falling off their arze, large muffin top bulging over them, sprayed on looky likey jeans jeggings, and the company is successful with nary a pair of jeans in sight.
Dunno why people would want to look like a builder's labourer when they work in an office.

CCFC_80

ohreally wrote: »

Not all interviews are conducted within the workplace, indeed I've had interviews in a different country.

I understand that but for those that do which would be the majority, employers please note?!


Edit..I estimate in my lifetime I have probably had about 30 interviews in the type of environment I work in which is clerical/administrative. I have only been shown around the building and my new potential working environment at around a 1/4 of those interviews attended. It is surely beneficial for the candidate to have a look around at what they might be letting themselves in for. it seems they don't want to do that but are quite prepared to ask me that if I was a animal which animal would I be?

Takeaway_Addict

CCFC_80 wrote: »

I understand that but for those that do which would be the majority, employers please note?!


Edit..I estimate in my lifetime I have probably had about 30 interviews in the type of environment I work in which is clerical/administrative. I have only been shown around the building and my new potential working environment at around a 1/4 of those interviews attended. It is surely beneficial for the candidate to have a look around at what they might be letting themselves in for. it seems they don't want to do that but are quite prepared to ask me that if I was a animal which animal would I be?

Surely it depends, if its for a retail outlet then its pretty obvious what the environment is going to be...