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Wipro has a 600-employee call center in Chamblee, Georgia that is infected with bed bugs according to Atlanta, Georgia television station 11 Alive.
The facilities manager admits there is a bed bug problem and it's been an issue since late May.
Employees told the TV station that the bugs are all over the three floors - and they're biting. But employees are being told they still must go to work. Kwanita Holmes sent 11Alive photos of what she said is a bed bug bite on her arm -- "We're at work 8 hours a day and we're getting munched on all day," she said.
Wipro said it's paying for in-home bed bug consultations and treatments for employees.
What are the worst conditions you've had to work in?
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IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Monday June 26 2017, @07:51AM (2 children)
You'd go up and work as hard and fast as you could (delicate balance, you don't want to fall through the ceiling, or damage anything that will mean money and more time in the space to correct) as long as you could and when you couldn't take it anymore you'd come back down the ladder, that was the most dangerous moment. A short lapse of consciousness right there and you break your neck. Made it back down the ladder safely. Find a bit of breezy shade and just lay down for a minute now.
Ugh, still a lot to do here, better call all the other people we're supposed to see today with revised times. (A little more time in only 100 degrees, my perk as the boss.) Now back up that ladder let's get this done.
Well in terms of physical discomfort that was probably the worst. There are other measures of worst. I'll say that while it was the most physically unpleasant thing I've ever done for a living, and the pay was pretty lousy, it wasn't the job I'd most prefer to never do again.
That was in sales. And this is the thing. I can actually do very well in sales - in a certain tiny percentage of the large category called 'sales' at least.
That tiny slice of the 'sales' slice is not officially recognized as distinct, and there is no official term for it. I like to call it the 'not-fraud' slice of sales.
If I can give you something I really think is fair value then my simple, naïve honest good-will shines through. People like to buy from me, in that situation. This led to some small successes in 'sales' which lead, as small successes in any field are supposed to, to more challenging positions.
Which lead to me, at age of approximately 19, getting paid quite good money for a 19 year old in that time and place, to cold-call strangers that had absolutely no sane reason to want what I was selling, and bother them. For about a week. I worked in a climate controlled office surrounded by pretty young women with caviar and evian for free in the break room, it was possibly the least physically unpleasant job I've ever worked, but I don't miss it a bit, and I'd lay ceiling insulation again rather than do that, in a heartbeat.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday June 26 2017, @12:32PM
For IT, I've never topped this story [thedailywtf.com] about a company that put its offices right next to a city dump.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday June 26 2017, @07:22PM
There is a demand for cooling work suits, ether self-contained (ice or batteries) or with a hose.
It is a testament to the disposability and slavability of the US poor that it isn't a huge market.