...they find a way to take it back down a few notches. OK, so I know we don't have assigned seats in my group, except for the leads/managers and a few unlucky people who got in trouble and have to sit near the boss (tee hee). But as we have been working over the past few months, there have been places we've found that we like to sit better than others, and it's been common practice to put personal stuff out on a desk, put up photos and your name, etc. It's still not YOUR desk but if you can sit there on a given day, at least it feels homey. Seemed like that was OK in the past, and we even had announcements warning people not to take others' personal belongings off desks.
Apparently someone must have made a stink now that we have all these new people on the floor...maybe they were afraid to sit at a desk that had a name tag on it, or some such. When I was new, if I couldn't find a desk that was physically unoccupied, I'd sit at a desk that was "claimed" by someone else or ask where I could sit. No big deal. Late this afternoon we get a message from one of the managers that says (paraphrasing - and some phrases were in red text):
"There are only 2 people who have assigned desks with their names on them. All other desks are for anyone's use. Remove all your personal belongings from these desks and make sure you log out of your computer after EVERY shift. We have new people on the floor and they have the right to sit anywhere they choose."
Well, duh! I don't remember seeing such an announcment being made when *my* training class came onto the floor in March. I had just found a desk that was vacated by someone who moved to another row (and she had, and still has, tons of personal stuff at her desk and she's not one of the "two people" either) and was starting to decorate it when I got that message today. I never would have taken offense at anyone sitting there when I wasn't there, even if they sat there earlier in the day and were still there when I get in at 1:30 PM. And really, I do understand the reasoning behind it. I guess it just hit me the wrong way. Somehow I think there's going to be a backlash against it too, or people just ignoring the "request" to remove their belongings...
Apparently someone must have made a stink now that we have all these new people on the floor...maybe they were afraid to sit at a desk that had a name tag on it, or some such. When I was new, if I couldn't find a desk that was physically unoccupied, I'd sit at a desk that was "claimed" by someone else or ask where I could sit. No big deal. Late this afternoon we get a message from one of the managers that says (paraphrasing - and some phrases were in red text):
"There are only 2 people who have assigned desks with their names on them. All other desks are for anyone's use. Remove all your personal belongings from these desks and make sure you log out of your computer after EVERY shift. We have new people on the floor and they have the right to sit anywhere they choose."
Well, duh! I don't remember seeing such an announcment being made when *my* training class came onto the floor in March. I had just found a desk that was vacated by someone who moved to another row (and she had, and still has, tons of personal stuff at her desk and she's not one of the "two people" either) and was starting to decorate it when I got that message today. I never would have taken offense at anyone sitting there when I wasn't there, even if they sat there earlier in the day and were still there when I get in at 1:30 PM. And really, I do understand the reasoning behind it. I guess it just hit me the wrong way. Somehow I think there's going to be a backlash against it too, or people just ignoring the "request" to remove their belongings...
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