Yesterday morning I had a meeting with the Dean's assistant, to discuss "the new office arrangements." They're rearranging offices to bring some of us into the main building and set it up so that all the accounting people are in one place. Fine.
But I like my little cave. It's dark & relatively quiet, which I need. I told them that I need a quiet office & that I can't even work with someone talking on the phone regularly. (It makes me lose my concentration, which is really annoying when I'm looking for the one misplaced ; in 500 lines of code.
So where do they want to put me? In a large room with the 2 recruiters, who are very loud and talk on the phone all the time! The admin tried to tell me that the little cubicle half-walls would keep me from being distracted by the noise. Um, no. No no no. Not to mention that I currently work with the lights off & the windows papered over because I get headaches from the glare.
It just seems like such a stupid thing to do.
There's the possibility that I may get a different small office to myself, though they'd been planning to move my boss and put him in there. If I have to move at all, that's probably the best place for me. But I don't like change & I'd be happy staying right where I am.
The cost of the work hours spent figuring out the arrangements & moving people around must be quite high. It seems a waste, since we're having all the budget cuts.
Posted by rachel at June 30, 2004 11:32 AM
I had to move once and resisted it for both the month preceding and 6 months afterward. I was moved to a basement from a nice office with a window. I then vowed to have 1 new passive aggressive screen saver per day from that day forward, including, "if a tree fell in the basement, would it really make a sound," and "today's weather in the basement: dark, cloudy, no chance of sun."
Posted by: Jimmy at July 2, 2004 02:44 PMSo did you move/rearrange? I miss your blogging!
Posted by: jenell at July 3, 2004 09:54 PMNo, I haven't moved yet. They're still deciding where to put everyone. I just haven't had the mental energy to blog.
Posted by: Rachel at July 5, 2004 07:15 PM
I am with you. I think that a quiet work space is key to productivity.
Posted by: Tom K at July 1, 2004 11:20 AM