Score Your Work!

Today's topic will be a quiz: how much does your employer suck? Total up the points at the end (javascript if I feel nice).

1. Cafeteria - Does you company:
offer tasty, fresh food upon request for reasonable price, including free? (1 point)
offer mediocre food at their convenience? (0 points)
employ LunchLady Doris? (-1 point)

2. Security - Does your company:
treat you like an adult, and keep physical security to a minimum (badge readers, etc)? (1 point)
Have some sort of obviously CYA policy in place involving security guards? (0 points)
check your badge at the gate, again at the building, then again at the entrance to your office? (-1 point)

3. Work Environment - Does your company:
Have modern, clean, up-to-date, large, well-lit work areas? (1 point)
Have old, dirty, out-of-date, small, dark work areas? (0 points)
Have all of the previous and have on-going construction so it sounds like you're working on a major street at rush hour? (-1 point)

4. Equipment - Does your company:
provide you with what you need to do your job, and provide an easy mechanism to acquire it? (1 point)
begrudgingly provide the minimum of what you need, but make the process so tedious that it's usually not worth the effort? (0 points)
prefer to maintain a death-grip over the infrastructure, in order to maintain their need to exist?(-1 point)

5. Management - Does your company:
have a reasonable number of managers, who are willing and capable of working with you to effect change in the way the company does business? (1 point)
have too many managers, some of whom have no noticeable effect on productivity? (0 points)
have so many managers that they create a totally separate reporting chain to separate work and labor-related issues? (-1 point)

More to come!