Manager forces us to use AirB&B / share hotel rooms
I feel like this should be against the rule(s). My team travels domestically within the US. Manager makes a big deal about us sharing hotel rooms or an Airb&b - meanwhile, he always gets himself his own room / place. Men stay with men, women stay with women. He has brought up the idea of the entire team staying together at one AB&B, but thank God that hasn't panned out yet. Escalated it to manager's boss - but that guy is actually the one who started all of this mess - reminding us how tight the budget is and that we're lucky we even get to travel. Our HR is a joke. I bring up HR here because when reporting a manager, that report goes directly to... that manager. The Integrity Hotline (result of the Eric Holder recommendations) fields our calls and sends each inquiry / issue / comment to our designated HRBP. For my dept, we have one HRBP - who is close to both managers mentioned above. The highest point of escalation still comes right back to the managers in question. Someone on our team even reached out to the head of our HR (Liane). When he raised several complaints from within our team, she told him to "trust in the process" re: following the escalation process for issues with managers. Is this a weird thing to be uncomfortable with? Being forced to AB&B / share hotels with coworkers? FAANG - dealing with this too?
What’s the policy for bisexual men? Do they get their own room?
I'm female, but you get my point. It's not like they can go around asking each of us what our sexual orientation is - then ask this group of ppl to share with that group, etc.
DF is wrong with people. Bisexuality is not a gender. The room is split on gender. Shit will hurt for many people when tech becomes commoditized
Normal for high school, absurd for adults. 🍆
This is pure entitlement BS. Your company is limiting you to a travel budget how is that a HR issue? What is the difference if it was hotels or AirBnB? The most you can ask for is to cover your own travel. And they will oblige but that’s on you. Walmart (and others) has done this for 20+ years and Wall Street applauds their frugality. Get a new company that can afford more for travel. Or deal. This is what life post tech boom will look like for all of us.
OP is concerned at being asked to share a single room. It’s a legitimate concern.
Legitimate to an individual, yes. HR violation no. What exactly is the violation being reported? Isn’t this akin to preferring your walled cube over an open office/shared space?
...or find a hotel far enough away that lodging + rental car is cheaper than sharing rooms. A commute sucks and 10x more when you’re traveling but you’d cry a lot more if there was a down round. Or don’t go working for a startup if you’re a delicate snowflake.
Dude, this is Uber. Not a startup.
Lighting money on fire and getting your butt kicked by startups makes you more similar to a big “tech” company... Be careful, when they run out of sucker money they will spin out Uber Eats and leave every small investor and most employees out in the cold...
Well, this thread turned out more useful than expected. Now we now some of the bottom feeder companies. 🍆
Not everyone works for Microsoft (or FAANG) and some of us worked through the 1st Tech Collapse. My point is primarily this: There’s no HR issue here.
Your point is wrong. It is absolutely inappropriate to share a room with a co-worker against your will. If a company wants me to work away from my home, they need to provide accommodations. 🍆
So get an airbnb with multiple bedrooms? Is that somehow bad?
Well, he just wants strengthen your team bonding by Sharing a 🏡. ROFL 🤣.... this is weird as shit, no matter what the sexual orientation is 🙏
Sharing rooms meh, unless in Europe where beds are next to each other. Anyway, had some frugal jobs where this was common and worst stories were about sharing blankets, not rooms. Did not expect Uber to be there though!
meanwhile microsoft gives a 300-400$ per day hotel budget lol
And 20 years ago even Microsoft had us share rooms on certain trips
And still does for big conferences at certain employee levels. I do remember the first and last time I shared a room at a MGX event with a random guy assigned to me last minute. No chance of me doing that again.
Normal at Uber