Office/desk moves

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Our management have decided that we need some desk moves in our office, which will happen over the weekend.

I work for a financial institution, the people here went to school at Eaton and Harrow, university at Oxford and Cambridge and move in the right social circles....you get the picture.

I have never in my life heard such childish bickering about who will sit next to whom. Who gets custody of the TV on the wall. Who gets the window to their back/front/side......its being going on for hours now. I swear primary school children would deal with this better than this bunch of cretins.
 
How long have you been working ? Don't you know that a Window is a prized possession as it the A/C controller and a window that actually opens. There has to be a hierarchy to take control of such important features.
 
DCB said:
How long have you been working ? Don't you know that a Window is a prized possession as it the A/C controller and a window that actually opens. There has to be a hierarchy to take control of such important features.
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:D I currently occupy such a seat, I didn't realise it was such a commodity. Maybe that accounts for all the envious stares I've received over the years.
 
I instigated a change around in our office a couple of months back, including two new offices for senior managers. I'm still getting grief for it. I did consultative meetings with all the staff, put plans up on the wall. Did walk arounds with staff and builders.

You can't and won't please everyone because its subjective. And the guy you please today will moan tomorrow.
 
Oh god i love working from home. Threads like this make me appreciate that so much more! I do not miss open plan offices one bit! Or Hot Desking, thats even worse!
 
adam6177 said:
Our management have decided that we need some desk moves in our office, which will happen over the weekend.

I work for a financial institution, the people here went to school at Eaton and Harrow, university at Oxford and Cambridge and move in the right social circles....you get the picture.

I have never in my life heard such childish bickering about who will sit next to whom. Who gets custody of the TV on the wall. Who gets the window to their back/front/side......its being going on for hours now. I swear primary school children would deal with this better than this bunch of cretins.
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It's Eton - you neanderthal, comprehensive boy!!!! :D

BTW - whats hot-desking.

As a northern boy, is that when you have two hot pies on it?
 
Liverbirdie said:
It's Eton - you neanderthal, comprehensive boy!!!! :D

BTW - whats hot-desking.

As a northern boy, is that when you have two hot pies on it?
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Must have been auto correct :whistle:

Hot desking is where you go and pick any desk you want, plug yourself in and off you go..... doesn't really work if you have a team.
 
adam6177 said:
Must have been auto correct :whistle:

Hot desking is where you go and pick any desk you want, plug yourself in and off you go..... doesn't really work if you have a team.
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Works fine with a bit of common sense imo, we have a few separate sit down areas/telephone rooms and functions are allocated to certain areas within which we hotdesk. Plenty of lockers to leave your laptop/stuff in.
 
adam6177 said:
Our management have decided that we need some desk moves in our office, which will happen over the weekend.

I work for a financial institution, the people here went to school at Eaton and Harrow, university at Oxford and Cambridge and move in the right social circles....you get the picture.

I have never in my life heard such childish bickering about who will sit next to whom. Who gets custody of the TV on the wall. Who gets the window to their back/front/side......its being going on for hours now. I swear primary school children would deal with this better than this bunch of cretins.
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You obviously went to Harrow then :D
 
Liverbirdie said:
It's Eton - you neanderthal, comprehensive boy!!!! :D

BTW - whats hot-desking.

As a northern boy, is that when you have two hot pies on it?
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Just to elaborate on hot desks, many businesses look to cut costs by handing out home or combi working contracts. Therefore you no longer have a dedicated/allocated desk in the office because the expectation is that you work from home or are out visiting clients. For those occasions when you need to be in the office there are communal desks that you can use - hot desks. Works well unless you all need to be in the office at once and then theres not enough desks to go around.:(
 
sawtooth said:
Just to elaborate on hot desks, many businesses look to cut costs by handing out home or combi working contracts. Therefore you no longer have a dedicated/allocated desk in the office because the expectation is that you work from home or are out visiting clients. For those occasions when you need to be in the office there are communal desks that you can use - hot desks. Works well unless you all need to be in the office at once and then theres not enough desks to go around.:(
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Sounds a southern thing.;)

Bet you dont have dominoes.:D
 
Hobbit said:
I instigated a change around in our office a couple of months back, including two new offices for senior managers. I'm still getting grief for it. I did consultative meetings with all the staff, put plans up on the wall. Did walk arounds with staff and builders.

You can't and won't please everyone because its subjective. And the guy you please today will moan tomorrow.
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Big mistake. You should never consult with anyone except the Manager. Let him/her make the decisions and take any subsequent flak. I used to do office space planning for a living and learned very quickly never to show plans to the staff. If the Manager wanted to consult the staff that was their lookout.
 
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