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If you’re a teenager and this is your first job, I can overlook this post. If you’re an adult, you should start job searching and specifically asking about water dispensers during your interview. Good luck out there!
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Unfortunately, legally, providing a sink to get water from is providing water. Businesses are not required to provide water above and beyond the normal municipal supply.
Employers usually give office staff some kind of creature comforts like snacks and bottled water although they are not required to. Unfortunately, it sounds like your employer is frankly too cheap to run a nice office environment.
Without a doubt
Unfortunately, I don’t think any of that is illegal. They only have to provide a restroom and a sink to wash your hands if I’m not mistaken.
OSHA mandates potable water which a municipal sink legally provides making your reports a documented record of your own incompetence. Confusing a luxury like bottled water with a requirement identifies you as a high-friction liability that generates more administrative waste than operational value. Your inability to manage personal hydration is a failure of individual self-maintenance rather than the problem of everyone around you. Filing meritless legal claims on day one provides the documentation required for your immediate termination as soon as operationally possible (and, your new colleagues will likely cheer when they learn you are gone if you whine this much). The organization provides the infrastructure for production while you are exclusively responsible for feeding yourself and drinking water; you should go into all future interviews with the full and consciously considered intent to ask the interviewer whether or not they will be your new mommy.
Worked once for a company that would not let us have hot food ( because it would smell) no refrigerator/ microwave. You weren't even allowed to leave snacks. If you wanted warm food you had to eat it outside of the store.
The building has an infestation of cockroaches the doors and the windows don't seal properly so it's always dusty and dirty not to mention don't let it washing machine break down because you're paying out of your pocket to wash the linen for the property and pray for a miracle you get your money back
So here’s the thing. Employers do not have to provide anything other than a place for you to work and a place for you to sit, if necessary. You’re a big boy/girl, you’re an adult, if you forget your water, and you get thirsty, guess what you do? You go buy a bottle of water.
Good luck.
I need to have my head examined for even applying at that cockroach field building and it smellsAnd it smells like marijuana like
DoH? great idea.. h ~ a
force us to go to the nearest store, go on. i bet all the hot-dogs are cold anyway.
That’s definitely illegal
Someone needs to write a memorandum laminated and tattoo it to the owner's forehead and every higher up,cuz nobody does anything and nobody does anything the same way same
It is nice to have maintenance and the overnight person staying on property the only property I've ever heard of that actually closes at 10:00 p.m. so you know that person the overnight one does nothing after 10:00 no cleaning, nothing and then complains and complain and don't let there a water leak And then complains and complain and don't let thrre be a water leak, cuz the maintenance guy is not getting up it's his day off. And no one from upper management to pick up there phone not the Gm, not district manager regional manager task force manager or even a owner but then again it's your fault because you can't turn it off and keep running that building and just suck it up buttercup. And as for the comment I read earlier about the smells of your food it's an Extended Stay property people live there some people have been there years , how are they How are they supposed to eat?
Personally I don't think an employer should be obliged to supply water. Not having a break room is more of an issue, because where are you supposed to have a break or lunch.
If you are so concerned about an employer supplying these things, then you need to look for another job, but don't hold your breath while waiting to find that job. Seems odd to me that anyone would be that concerned about the water situation at a job, vs actual issues like the job itself, the people, or the pay.
Stop crying about water take a bottle of water from your house grow the hell up this company does not care about its employees can we talk about that and their hypocrites they say don't do this don't do that but then they turn around and they do it and it's okay