offices..........love em or hate em?

[Sweats]

I'll keep this one simple so you can all keep up......

 

I've been working in an office for the past year on a project wayyyyyyyyy up north.

We have shared offices (2 people per office) and I have had to change my office 3 times over the past 8 months (i have been asked politely to go to a different office each time).

 

Now, i was beginning to believe that it was me, but how could that ever be?.......you guys have seen me well enough on these boards to know that i could never be the problem, so......

 

offices......love em or hate em?

[Fleezoid]

23 minutes ago, Sweats said:

I'll keep this one simple so you can all keep up......

 

I've been working in an office for the past year on a project wayyyyyyyyy up north.

We have shared offices (2 people per office) and I have had to change my office 3 times over the past 8 months (i have been asked politely to go to a different office each time).

 

Now, i was beginning to believe that it was me, but how could that ever be?.......you guys have seen me well enough on these boards to know that i could never be the problem, so......

 

offices......love em or hate em?

 

 

[RkFast]

Mine is fine. Now that we are mostly WFH and Im not stuck in it 45 hours a week, I find it much more tolerable and its good to see people, meet in person on projects and keep some sort of a semblance of company culture in place. 

[PastaJoe]

I always preferred working in the office instead of from home. The routine of getting dressed, driving to work, and interacting with co-workers put me in the proper mindset, as opposed to the Covid year when I’d walk downstairs, plop down on the sofa and turn on the computer for 8 hours of solitude.

[Sweats]

I've always done construction projects as a Project Manager or Project Oversight and although i have always had an office, i very rarely ever worked in it, as i was always in the field and around the sites.

On this project, they want me to sit in my office for hours at a time.........i hate it, so i'm sure my cheery good moods probably reflect this in my daily interactions with my co-workers.

[RiotAct]

Hate. I work in tech and we have an “open office” concept… it’s awful.

 

Our company’s security head recently sent out an email to everyone with tips on how to fend off aggressive panhandlers downtown 😂😂😂

 

Luckily I can still WFH Mondays and Fridays… for now.

[Augie]

52 minutes ago, PastaJoe said:

I always preferred working in the office instead of from home. The routine of getting dressed, driving to work, and interacting with co-workers put me in the proper mindset, as opposed to the Covid year when I’d walk downstairs, plop down on the sofa and turn on the computer for 8 hours of solitude.

 

My wife’s employer had a hard time getting everyone back into the office. A lot of people just didn’t want to come back in, and some had moved out of state. That’s pretty bold!  😂 

 

The young people who said they can do everything they need to do from the comfort of their home don’t know what they don’t know. You learn and grow by being exposed to people with more experience and different points of view. That does not happen to the same extent virtually. 

 

When I retired I did miss the routine of getting up, going in and interacting with everybody. There is a comfort to that routine, even when I hated my job for a couple years. I left the job, but I missed the people. My Golden Retrievers are good listeners, but not much into full conversations. 

[Sweats]

I love working from home.

I turned my one spare room (not the one with the pissy mattress) into an office.......put a desk and chair in the corner and it's all set up for working. The best part is that i still have the spare bed in the room, so i just tell my wife i'm very busy with work, close the door and have a 3 hour nap.

 

They tend to frown on 3 hour naps in the office at work.

[Augie]

8 minutes ago, Sweats said:

I love working from home.

I turned my one spare room (not the one with the pissy mattress) into an office.......put a desk and chair in the corner and it's all set up for working. The best part is that i still have the spare bed in the room, so i just tell my wife i'm very busy with work, close the door and have a 3 hour nap.

 

They tend to frown on 3 hour naps in the office at work.

 

If YOU snooze at the office, somebody will notice and sneak in to mess with your stuff and poop on your desk. Remain alert and vigilant at all times! 

 

My favorite job ever could be done equally well at home or at the office. It was the happiest 13 working years of my life. I was at the office at least for a couple hours almost every day. I loved the flexibility that it wasn’t necessary, but I learned a lot from the other people, and had some things I could offer to help others. It’s hard to get better in a vacuum. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

Hate them.  Pencil pushers pound pumice. 

[Just Jack]

2 hours ago, Sweats said:

I love working from home.

I turned my one spare room (not the one with the pissy mattress) into an office.......put a desk and chair in the corner and it's all set up for working. The best part is that i still have the spare bed in the room, so i just tell my wife i'm very busy with work, close the door and have a 3 hour nap.

 

They tend to frown on 3 hour naps in the office at work.

 

When I worked for the local county, our office was in the sub-basement, two stories underground.  It used to be the old bomb shelter.  There was a bunk room down there, where I may have gone and taken a 20-minute nap sometimes.  

[The Jokeman]

I'm in a cube farm and as much as an introvert I am I love going into work. As during the pandemic I had to WFH and was far more depressed then. Perhaps because of being stuck in one place 24/7.

[Sweats]

3 hours ago, Augie said:

 

If YOU snooze at the office, somebody will notice and sneak in to mess with your stuff and poop on your desk. Remain alert and vigilant at all times! 

 

My favorite job ever could be done equally well at home or at the office. It was the happiest 13 working years of my life. I was at the office at least for a couple hours almost every day. I loved the flexibility that it wasn’t necessary, but I learned a lot from the other people, and had some things I could offer to help others. It’s hard to get better in a vacuum. 

 

 

 

Shockingly enough, the messing with my stuff and the pooping on my desk were two different jobs and two different offices........you see, i make friends everywhere i go.

 

I know i'm not the problem.

[Augie]

14 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

I'm in a cube farm and as much as an introvert I am I love going into work. As during the pandemic I had to WFH and was far more depressed then. Perhaps because of being stuck in one place 24/7.

 

My wife went from calling it “working from home” to “living at work”.  There is a certain amount of truth to that.  

[BADOLBILZ]

 

Top grading 101.......first chapter......get the person to quit.  It's the cheapest solution if the "troublesome" employee is unaware that the circumstances that keep arising are intentional.   It's quite surprising how often it works.   It's like 99% effective on people with short tempers.   I'm sure they thought it was going to be much easier and had you with the notebook thing.

 

 

[Johnny Hammersticks]

I have an office in our school district administrative building that I share with two of my colleagues, but I’m not there often because I’m in the schools working with students.  
 

That said, I prefer having an office outside of the schools so that I have a quiet place where I can do my paperwork without constantly being bothered by teachers and administrators when I don’t want to be.

[Sojourner]

Depends on one thing for me, the people I’m sharing that space with. 
 

Where I work is irrelevant. The people in that environment more often than not make it or break it. 

[davefan66]

Hated working in an office. A bunch of people who would mostly never hang out together stuck having to deal with each other on a daily basis.

 

Hated the BS in the background. Just wanted to do my job and go home. Never asked for a “pat on the back” but appreciated being noticed for my work.  
 

Quit that life and now work in the medical field. Had hopes to get away form the office BS and cliques…  nope, it’s everywhere.

[TheCockSportif]

I moved from a tech role (devops) to a "vendor" (i.e. technical sales) role in 2015.  I actually work *more*, either from home or from a hotel when I am traveling.  Having said that, I don't want to see colleagues slacking in real time, like I did when I was at a home office.  I've also observed that sharper leadership is more than capable to manage a 100% remote workforce, which is what the company I'm with today is doing.

[Augie]

17 hours ago, Sojourner said:

Depends on one thing for me, the people I’m sharing that space with. 
 

Where I work is irrelevant. The people in that environment more often than not make it or break it. 

 

That was very smooth and diplomatic of you. I like the way you never directly mentioned @Sweats, but I think we all knew what you meant. 

 

 

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