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overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs, my boss won’t give me a budget, and more

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Overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs. We have an obese employee who has broken several office chairs. We purchased two new ones just for her with a higher weight ability. As a result, she has used other chairs in the office and broken them. She again broke the base of one of them.

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my employee is overly budget-conscious and freaks out when we spend money

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And how directly involved with money/purchasing is his job?” It’s a replacement office chair. It’s a MID-RANGE OFFICE CHAIR, not even a fancy one! The company is going to purchase X and isn’t going to do Y to spend less. We need to move on now.”. * “Please order the chair I’ve marked.

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update: will it hurt my chances of getting hired if I can only do video interviews?

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We were also allowed to take literally anything we wanted from the office, just as long as we notified the office manager; I took a monitor and a few cables (plus several office plants) but I had coworkers who took literally everything, including the office chair. It was brilliant.

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I was laid off and now my manager wants my help, I don’t want my company car, and more

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My role was to open and then manage a new sales office. As part of my very, very generous package, my employer purchased a lovely SUV. Also, there must be legal issues regarding an employer forcing an employee to spend money on something they don’t want to have. Great, right!?