On Moving to New Digs

When i took this job I moved from a windowless basement office furnished with furniture trash picked from the same building to a fairly modern office building where all employees were housed in identical 10X10 offices with the exception of Desktop and the Call Desk. That was luxury I rarely encountered in my career. The building was built as a model technology center by the organization and the plan was accomplished by IBM about 20 years ago.

Time to upset the cart.

On a random friday, 2 months ago, we were told to prepare to move into the data center (yeah, noise, cold, etc) for an extended stay. Last week we moved into our new digs where our offices used to be, a cube farm. For many of the long timers this is the first time they haven't had an office and it shows. Loud phone conversations, rude comments, offensive music are just some of the problems. Random wanderings seem to be one of the most offensive things, people need to respect other people's right to privacy and space. This will all shake out eventually.