This is a very repetitive office job in a bank subsidiary, with a bunch of weird rules. I've spent most of my career in chill creative jobs but for now this is what I've got, so I'm just wondering if it's common in that industry.
Among other rules:
- No phone and no bag at your desk, you need to put them in a locker away from the desks
- No food at your desk
- No drinks unless in a closed container (= in a bottle, not in a mug)
- No headphones at all, no music whatsoever (it's a repetitive job so it's actually very hard to stay focused and awake without music)
- Zero URL allowed outside of the already made shortcuts (outlook, internal docs)
- Talking to coworkers is heavily discouraged, room goes silent when managers are in the room
- You need to announce to your manager when you're going on a break or to the bathroom
- Never more than 2 people on a break at the same time
- Every task is timed, you've got 4 to 9 seconds depending on the task. Management won't show you your stats unless you've been fucking up for weeks. So you might be doing well, you might not, there's no way to know
- People just vanish from the office one day and are replaced the next, no communication about it from management whatsoever
- You should not be looking away from your screen for more than a few seconds. Stretching is discouraged (I got told off for that)
- Temp workers get weekly contracts yet are asked to commit to staying for the next 12-18 months (still on weekly contracts)
- You need to pay for your own coffee lol
I might be forgetting some.
As we've all signed an NDA... none of this feels necessary at all?