Hiring Managers Share Strangest Requests November 17, 2009
You think your employees are unreasonable? A recent CareerBuilder survey may make you feel better.
More than 2,900 hiring managers recently shared with CareerBuilder the most memorable requests or recommendations they have received in the office suggestion box. Responses included:
• Request to allow people to change clothes in their cubicles.
• Request to add a tanning bed to the break room.
• Request to put beer in the vending machine.
• Request that jail time be covered under family medical leave.
• Request to institute bikini Fridays.
• Request to only be required to work during daylight hours because employee is scared of the dark.
• Request for a special smoking area for medical marijuana.
• Request that the HR person wear nicer shoes.
• Request for more time off to pursue side business as a clown.
• Request to replace his desk with a futon so employee could lay down and work.
• Request that the lactation room with gliding chair be used for naps, so everyone can use it.
• Request to install a swimming pool for employees to use.
• Request to have the team meeting held in Hawaii.
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