Most places that have HR like this work their employees too hard for them to have time to use a ping pong table anyway, so it’s really just a hollow gesture.
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OneLemmyMan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s true that it’s not always about the money, but it’s probably never about a ping pong table
IanM32@lemmy.world 2 years ago
cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 years ago
A company I used to work for had a fucking arcade of all sorts of video games, I NEVER saw anyone playing them
Kichae@kbin.social 2 years ago
Indeed.
It's telling that "basic dignity" or "managers who aren't dicks" didn't make the list.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah. In my experience, “A manager who doesn’t suck” is most of the list.
Source: I’ve been the manager who did suck, and the one who doesn’t. I have some data points.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Ping pong tables are loud as fuck and disrupt the whole office. If they invest in a soundproof room to put it in, sure. Otherwise it just makes you feel like a massive douche.
Gork@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Especially if your coworkers play like pros.
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Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 years ago
I wanted a foosball table dammit!
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s the game of the debil!!!
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Damnit Bobby what did I tell you about foosball!
pain_is_life_is_pain@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Dammit, you beat me to it!
LrdThndr@lemmy.world 2 years ago
My last job had a pingpong table. We’d even use it occasionally. That is, until people started getting pissy when they’d see us playing pingpong. Then management started bitching that we were playing pingpong instead of working. Eventually, nobody was allowed to use the pingpong table - it just sat there, in the middle of the room, with brand new paddles and packs of balls that we weren’t allowed to use.
The money was okay - not great, but not terrible. After some management fuckery, I left for a $10000/yr raise and 100% work from home. I’ve gone up $20K since then, been promoted to senior, still have upward trajectory, and still work 100% from home. I have a desk in Memphis somewhere, but I’ve never actually seen it.
vegai@suppo.fi 2 years ago
I would quit if my employer got a ping pong table.
fluxion@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It is if you’re managing an Olympic ping pong team
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 years ago
My employer really covered their bases. We have ping-pong, pool, and foosball. That guarantees that everyone has something that will keep them from quitting.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It’s always about autonomy, one way or another. People want to be able to control how they work and what they can get out of it. For some that does mean more money, for some it would mean less stress, for others it could means less meetings.
It’s pretty easy for management to address all of it by just giving people more power over what their work lives are like, but that could mean less control over their workforce. No “owner” wants them, to them, they own their employees’ time/work life.
Tandybaum@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I was at my last job for 10 years.
If I had been well paid and treated well I would not have ever started that job search. Further even just having one of those two thing might have kept me from looking.
At that job I hit the tipping point of both. It’s was getting shittier everyday and the pay wasn’t budging year after year. Finally mid-Covid the power flipped to the employee and jobs were much easier to get. I started looking and jumped shipped.
Vub@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s not ever not about the many around 0% of the times.
Neve8028@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Eh. Toxic work culture can drive people away regardless of the pay. Obviously some people suck it up but not everyone. Ultimately the goal is to treat employees well all around. Good pay, benefits, and work culture will keep people happy.
Kefass@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This
pain_is_life_is_pain@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Well, hypothetical speaking, if there were two completely absolutely identical jobs, but the one had a ping pong table. I might choose the one without and ask them to get a Foosball table, since I’m no good at ping pong.
Carighan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It also depends on whether it’s about a pingpong table in the office, or whether I get one for at home and we’re talking a fully remote job.
Getting a free pingpong table isn’t a bad bonus!
pain_is_life_is_pain@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It’s a bad bonus if you don’t have space for a ping pong table. Speaking from experience, I got a free ping pong table for Christmas once…
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Same here. In the past 5 years, it’s seen maybe 10 games, and a whole lot of laundry.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’m cannot deny that “where should we mail your crokinole board?” would work on me.
hobbes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What is Crokinole?
Carighan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Shut up and sit down has a video where they rave about it. It’s a dexterity game that uses a large board and sliding pieces.
It seems simplistic, but it is genuinely amazing to paly.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
If they put in any kind of clackball table, I’m demanding noise canceling headphones and my own office.
Knightfall@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I’m all about the air hockey table.