I am new to campus. I can’t find anywhere to sit! Every time I sit down in a desk people scowl at me and eventually walk over and say that is so and so’s desk or this neighborhood is for so and so’s group only. I went to my supervisor and they told me to just sit anywhere but wherever I sit I am told I do not belong there. Why doesn’t anyone admit this open seating experiment is a huge failure? My supervisor and manager sit in the same desk every day and clearly “lead by example”
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Why is it that managers and supervisors can stake out their own desk IN THE BEST AREAS NO LESS.
They won’t admit ever when a policy fails. They just proclaim how great it is. Meanwhile their own supervisors and managers aren’t following the policy and the peasants are the ones who suffer the most.
@OP Look them in the eye, smile and tell them to fu-k off.
@dx spend a lot of time in there toe-tapping?
I have started working from home as much as possible for this very reason. I am sick of not being able to find a seat and being told the desk I am sitting in is not for me. Meanwhile my supervisor and manager and all the senior people who never leave Houston in spite of all the claims that mobility is important and valued and rewarded (NOT!) have been sitting in the same desk for years and will not react well if you sit in THEIR desk.
Another sore a manager I see...why don't you go find someone more senior to j off.
There are seats in the toilet
Even HotDesking has a Hierarchy at EM.
It pi---s me off to no end how managers and supervisors sit in the same desk every day and there is nowhere for us peasants to sit.
@OP Open Seating, Closed Minds, a poem to cheer you up.....
Once upon a corporate day,
The executives took our desks away.
"No more assigned seats!" they proudly declared.
"From now on, all workspaces will be shared!"
"Collaboration! Flexibility! Innovation!"
"Welcome to our workplace transformation!"
"Sit anywhere! You're free to roam!"
"Every desk can be your home!"
So Monday morning, bright and early,
I found a desk and settled in surely.
I opened my laptop, ready to work,
When suddenly appeared an angry je-k.
"Excuse me! You're sitting in Jim's chair!"
"But I thought we could sit anywhere?"
"Well, technically yes, but not right here.
Jim's been sitting there for seventeen years!"
I moved next door and tried again,
But quickly encountered another old hen.
"This neighborhood belongs to Finance!"
"But isn't open seating corporate compliance?"
"That's what the policy says, my dear,
But your department doesn't belong here."
I wandered the floors, from east to west,
Searching for somewhere to sit and rest.
Every empty desk was apparently claimed,
And somehow I was the one being blamed.
I asked my manager, "Where can I sit?"
He looked quite puzzled, then said, "Just pick!"
"Any desk you want! They're all the same!"
While sitting at the desk with his engraved name.
I asked my supervisor, "What should I do?"
She said, "Just find a place with a view."
"But every seat I choose is taken!"
"Well, that's a culture issue. I'm not mistaken."
Meanwhile, upstairs, behind closed doors,
Executives occupied their private floors.
Their offices spacious, their chairs ergonomic,
Their commitment to flexibility somewhat ironic.
And somewhere on Zoom, a leader declared,
"Our workplace transformation has been prepared!
We've eliminated territorial behavior,
And created a culture of collaboration!"
Meanwhile, downstairs, a war had begun.
Employees were fighting over who'd won
The sacred desk beside the window,
Where Bob had sat since Windows 95 or so.
We eliminated assigned seating,
But forgot to eliminate territorial greeting.
We gave everyone freedom to sit anywhere,
Then made them feel unwelcome in every chair.
And now I understand the corporate vision:
Open seating is really a brilliant decision.
No assigned desks, no permanent space,
Just eighty employees fighting for the same place.
So congratulations, Corporate Real Estate!
Your transformation is truly great.
You've created a workplace where everyone belongs...
As long as they don't sit where someone else belongs.
OPEN SEATING: EVERY DESK IS AVAILABLE. EXCEPT THE ONES THAT AREN'T.
Do some scouting and be careful not to take the favorite desk of a person that could have you PIPd.
@a6 correct. BTEC east goes away and west gets “modernized”
@OP Get to work early and sit in your managers desk.
When the seat bullies scowl at you, saying it's supposedly reservered for someone else, just look them directly in the eye and say, "This is all open seating" with a sweeping hand motion, across the whole room. Then set your stuff down, ignore them, and get to work.
If they keep bugging you about it, just repeat the same phrase, "This is all open seating", and don't go into it any further with them, other than to say, "If you have a problem with it, feel free to take it up with your manager, I'm finished discussing this issue with you." And then put them back on ignore.
Don't allow them to intimidate you or make you feel as if you don't have a right to sit wherever there's an open desk. You DO have that right, just as much as they do, for wherever they decided to plant their stanka55es down for the day!
lol there’s a rumor that BTEC West will have same open seat concept in 2028-2030!! Finally some fairness, let other sites experience this Wall Street setup. Also attendance tracking