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Re: Package delivery at the office
By: Luci Date: July 6, 2018, 11:54 am
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[quote author=lakey link=topic=507.msg7963#msg7963
date=1530894528]
[quote]On your specific case, I would really question the
intelligence of this employee.[/quote].
Not only that, but there also seems to be a problem with
management allowing something like this. Whether smaller,
personal packages should be delivered to the workplace,
coworkers aren't being paid to take care of my personal
business, and shouldn't have to be accepting, carrying, and
delivering packages that aren't work related. If the person
receiving the package is the one accepting and dealing with it,
okay. A lot of office employees are already overwhelmed with
their workload. It isn't reasonable to expect them to stop what
they're doing to accept other employees' personal deliveries.
If having items delivered to your home is a problem, buy things
in a store. Expecting someone else to haul around your fifty
pound bag of dog food is incredibly selfish. Abuse of this comes
down to placing your own convenience ahead of that of other
people.
[/quote]
No one has mentioned the esthetics. I can’t imagine going to
work or coming in as a business person and being faced with any
giant delivery at the reception area. My impression would
definitely negative, to the point of wondering about what’s
going on behind scenes. Large deliveries go to the loading dock.
Even 50 pounds of dog food and cases of copy paper.
A delivery that large has got to inhibit the efficiency of the
real storage room, too.
Policies will change soon so that kind of abuse can’t continue.
I have worked in a school with about 30 employees and at the
regional office of a large national insurance company.
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Re: Package delivery at the office
By: NFPwife Date: July 6, 2018, 12:03 pm
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This employee has completely abused the policy and the company's
good will. It's rude and inconsiderate to fellow workers,
customers, and the company. Like others have said, the policy
will likely be changing very soon.
I'm baffled that the employee, who could have worked from home
for the delivery, just didn't stay home to get it.
I can't imagine expecting co-workers to manage large deliveries.
We ordered 100 pounds of whey protein once. The UPS guy was not
happy. I would never expect a co-worker to deal with something
like that.
#Post#: 7971--------------------------------------------------
Re: Package delivery at the office
By: guest426 Date: July 6, 2018, 12:13 pm
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My employer does not allow personal mail or packages to be
delivered to the office. Anyone entering or leaving the office
must go through the security doors (revolving doors that are
activated by our badges and will only rotate enough to allow one
person through), so someone trying to leave the office with a
big box would be in some serious difficulty.
Also, due to building security, it's difficult to get food
delivered to the office unless you go down to the lobby and wait
for it. Building security will not accept food deliveries at
the security desk (which I can't blame them for, it's not their
job).
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Re: Package delivery at the office
By: Rose Red Date: July 6, 2018, 12:53 pm
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My previous job didn't allow deliveries after 9/11. It was a
pleasant surprise this privilege was allowed at my new job.
The situation in the OP is crazy. If you can't take it with you
after work, you shouldn't have it delivered at work. Are they
expecting other employees to help load it into a truck for them
too? If you deliver it to your home, most delivery people will
set it up for you. Think people, think!
I wouldn't be surprised if they take this perk away due to one
bad apple.
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Re: Package delivery at the office
By: Pattycake Date: July 6, 2018, 2:08 pm
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:o ??? Strongly encouraged to do something about it and now
becoming defensive?! Doesn't anyone at the company have the
authority to do more than "strongly encourage", not to mention
reprimanding him for his attitude? Good grief. I agree, it's a
real courtesy if your company lets you get small packages at
work, but they should not be more than one person can easily
carry.
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Re: Package delivery at the office
By: pierrotlunaire0 Date: July 6, 2018, 2:33 pm
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[quote author=Dazi link=topic=507.msg7956#msg7956
date=1530890653]
I previously worked at a government facility. We were not
allowed to receive personal mail or deliveries as a matter of
course. If we did need to have something delivered to work, we
actually had to get permission to do so and it was granted on a
case by case basis.
If an employer allows personal deliveries, then it should not
invade the work space, it should not inconvenience your
coworkers, your coworkers should not even know you received
anything, and you should have made arraignments prior to the
delivery to get a large shipment home. As far as this order
goes, there is this amazing rental service called U-haul. You
can rent a truck by the hour, a half day, or a whole day. He
needs to use them if he can't find anyone else with a truck.
[/quote]
The bolded is true for me as well. It was even in the Personnel
Policies Handbook. I might turn a blind eye to a small package,
because the staff really didn't abuse it (maybe once a year).
But boxes of furniture? I would have told the employee that I
was going to let the cleaning staff know to remove all boxes and
place them in the dumpster after one day. And quite frankly,
the only way an employee could have stopped me or the cleaning
staff was to remove the boxes from the premises.
#Post#: 7990--------------------------------------------------
Re: Package delivery at the office
By: Rose Red Date: July 6, 2018, 2:42 pm
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I may be reading it wrong, but do you mean *one* person had 14
furniture size boxes delivered and laying around now? If so,
they should be given a warning that the boxes will be put out in
the parking lot if not removed by X date. Or maybe stacked in
their cubicle if they have one.
I have a lot of personal stuff at work (we spend more time at
work then at home, after all), but they're all confined to my
own assigned work space.
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Re: Package delivery at the office
By: JeanFromBNA Date: July 6, 2018, 2:54 pm
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Furniture delivered to their office? Who in the wide, wide world
of sports does that?!!
We have a huge problem with porch pirates in this neighborhood,
so I don't have a problem with personal packages being delivered
here. There aren't many, and most of them are mine.
Awhile back, an employee asked if I minded if he got a package
delivered while he was out. I said of course not. We took the
delivery, and laid the box, unopened, on his desk. It was a
2-karat diamond engagement ring for his soon-to-be fiance. We
didn't misplace it, but what if we had? Criminy! I wish he'd
said something.
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Re: Package delivery at the office
By: STiG Date: July 6, 2018, 3:00 pm
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If I were the big boss of furniture man's organization, I'd be
telling him to get it out of there by end of day or we'd be
having a really big bonfire in the parking lot. I'd supply the
marshmallows and wieners... Not that you'd want to roast them
over a furniture fire, unless there was no upholstery.
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Re: Package delivery at the office
By: Girlie Date: July 6, 2018, 3:06 pm
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I don't think I would want to have anything delivered that would
be more than just a very minor inconvenience to my fellow
coworkers, and I would expect everyone in my place of employment
to do the same.
If you can't take it to your office/keep it behind your desk,
and then remove it at the end of the day, you should have
alternate plans made for delivery of said items.
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