Our seating availability is first come, first served. It was great for 6 months but has gone downhill these past 2 months. Teams are laying claim to groups of unassigned drop-in desks. This week has been the worst. I was confronted by employees on Monday and Tuesday on different floors. I asked if they had seating reservations or a specific assignment in Phone. I suggested they contact CRE if they needed a group seating assignment. I've observed a few similar confrontations during the past month. Also employees leaving personal items stacked on a drop-in desk to mark their spot for the next day. CRE needs to reaffirm their seating rules to Leadership. Such confrontations create tension in the workspaces.
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Pretty much the opposite here. I took a break at 10:00 this morning and saw at least 20 open seats on the side of the floor I usually work from
They could easily institute a system in which you login on your phone when you get to the office and it assign a cubicle for you that day.
They could then use their handy dandy AI cameras to see how long you are at your desk. Each day, you get a new randomized cube.
Such chaos in the workplace due to poor leadership planning once again due to no assigned seating and playing musical chairs everyday!
I was one of the people you are referring to. You confronted us, not the other way around. You were not nice about it at all. I’d suggest not approaching people like you did or the next person will walk you out.
“SBC has always been about butts in the seats. Who gives a sh-t about productivity or efficiency. It’s butts in the seats. So sit your a-s down and it all going to be fine. WTF. Right, T dumpster fire everywhere!”
And never changing is how legacy companies become failing dinosaurs.
If I badge in and there’s no seats, I go home. I keep track of dates and why on my calendar in case they ever ask. They never do.
SBC has always been about butts in the seats. Who gives a sh-t about productivity or efficiency. It’s butts in the seats. So sit your a-s down and it all going to be fine. WTF. Right, T dumpster fire everywhere!
Default to the 2nd floor, second room on the right, with the 3rd stall on the middle left. Conference calls come off echoey in there, with timely mutes done to avoid embarrassing gas or stream sounds.
It stinks, literally, but at least the TP is plentiful.
“It's insane people coming into an office 3 days a week don't get a dedicated workspace.”
Garbage company.
It's insane people coming into an office 3 days a week don't get a dedicated workspace.
Perhaps leadership should have thought this through. Nah, not what we do at the big T! We are all about making you miserable
I don’t know why people are downvoting me saying go home.
The company wants you in the office right?
It’s their responsibility to facilitate this, right?
So why is it your responsibility to fight other people for a spot?
For a place to sit?
If enough people say “no” and go home, they will be forced to confront the obvious problem that there isn’t enough room in their tiny boxes for everyone they’re force relocating and forcing into the office.
You’re all a bunch of sheep.
Baahhhhhh.
Parking at Alpharetta has been theeeee worsttttttt lately
What location is this
There’s a solution for this.
You want to know what it is?
Badge in, then go home.
If someone asks “why” say you couldn’t find somewhere to sit, so you drove home on the companies dime.
I just don’t go in til later when everyone is gone. I legitimately don’t care what the company wants.
If you badge in, you get credit for the day. They don’t track time, I’ve seen supervisor docs and demos, they have NO capability to track time in office.
Badge, hangout for a bit, get a coffee, look around, crowded? Go home.