So our business did a new build out for the rest of us to move in to.
My one wish? That we weren't front and center, the middle of the fucking thoroughfare for the building, with noisy ass people on either side of us and a main traffic area going by our office.
We made all this expressly clear to our boss.
So what does he do? Come up with some stupid, poorly designed, dumbass combination of aesthetics. Half hallways. Half rooms. Giant fucking bay glass windows. Half of the build out area promised to another company when we really, really, really needed the fucking space. And where does he stick tech support? Yeah, that's right, RIGHT SMACK FUCKING DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS BULLSHIT.
So now our "office" is really a glorified hallway with a door on one end, that opens into another office with the LOUDEST MOTHERFUCKERS IN OUR COMPANY at the other. It's got a big bay window for one half wall (where a door rationally should be, but nope!) and double glass doors on the other full wall. The company has already dubbed it "the Fish Bowl" for its utter lack of privacy. Imagine a room that was about near completion before someone said "ah fuck it, see-through hallway."
I'm so fucking pissed off right now. For all our "this is a flat company" bullshit I've been told, it's pretty obvious which department gets stuck with the absolute shittiest work place. Never mind we're the ones on the phones all day, never mind we're effectively the public face of this company. Nah, fuck em, they'll do just fine with cloth wall hangings instead of doors, with people constantly walking through our work place.
Oh wait, what was the stated reason for this move? Right, because "The devs are in too small a space and are tired of their office being a thoroughfare." Well, congratulations. You just did to Tech Support what you said was bad for your devs, AND you're sticking your devs in what is ultimately a smaller space. Three of us with full desks fit in that office more or less comfortable. Now he wants to stick 6 people in there. Everyone gets smaller desks. It will be more cramped and uncomfortable than the old dev room.
Yes, well done. Keen fucking social engineering you pulled off there skippy. Maybe the current workplace attitude has fuck-all do with what shapes our desks are in, or whether or not half the company exists on a floor above the other half. Maybe what's really at the root of all this is, I dunno, your fucking haphazard management style.
Christ, we even called him while he was one the road (He left town and then gave us the directive "start moving") to confirm that it was ok for us to move into this office. "Oh sure fine" he said. So we moved all our shit in, and were thinking "hey, we actually got pretty lucky." The first thing he does upon returning to the office? Takes a look around and tells us we're moving out.
So thanks boss. Thanks for thinking this one through, again. Thanks for again cutting off at the edges of your own company for someone else's benefit and leaving a big steaming pile of "deal with it" to your lowest level employees, and in a way, all your employees. And by "it", I mean your lack of preparation or thinking practically about your ideas. Considering 70% of your company exists in three shared rooms, the rational thing would have been to make sure our work space makes any bloody sense first. But no. Do mock up the corner offices for all the individual office holders first, then just roll dice or consult entrails or pray to God that the internal space makes any fucking sense at all. What was supposed to a happy, good thing has kind of turned into a worse work environment for everyone who isn't a product leader. Which, again, is most of the company that actually drives the business.