Only been here three weeks, and already they’re moving me around. On the plus side, its from a stifling cube piled high with discarded equipment to a more open desk with plenty of workroom for the stations I have set up. They’re rearranging the whole IT department, one of the eccentricities of the business world, I have discovered in the past couple of years.
Get this, you take a group of people in a room, you look at them, then you decide to shuffle them like a deck of cards. Exactly like that. Its not like you’re rearranging to get more people to fit. You just move people around. I have seen this (and performed these moves for companies in the past, for that matter), dozens of times, and it never ceases to mystify me. Sometimes its something that has a reason, such as moving to a bigger office or cube, but most of the time its people moving to an identical desk.
Ahh, the bureaucracy of the business world!
Zel-kun out.
David N. Scott | 11-Oct-06 at 10:43 pm | Permalink
Haha… some of my favorite Dilbert comics were about that. I still remember losing our actually nice satellite office to be peons in the main office back in the New Century days. Hated that.
Zel-kun | 12-Oct-06 at 6:23 am | Permalink
I’ve seen that a few times too. Where I was hired to move a bunch of people from a small office to a large main office. Usually at least half of the people who had offices in the small office went to tiny cubicles.
So sad.