Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

Shared desk space is just gross...

I know for a fact that at Hopkins, 4th and 5th floor...

1. You definitely are hunting for a desk, and when it's busy, think Black Friday sale.
2. You are NOT allowed to eat at your desk. Crumbs for the next person to deal with is their thinking.
3. How are you supposed to collaborate when you can't even sit next to your team?

Dark days at the bank.

I am praying daily that this horrible RTO mess will implode and blows up in their faces. It’s done all wrong and someone should be fired for this mess.

It’s no longer my desk. It’s is no longer a job. We’re just a number to them. They don’t even treat us like humans anymore. To them we are cattle. Can’t even have my own space with my own family photos and mementos. It’s bad as it is with this cr-ppy RTO and this random desk sh-t makes me want to come in and pu-e on that desk and no I will not be cleaning anything,

The infographic says nothing about not eating at your desk either. Just that you need to throw away the food in the break room— says nothing about not being able to eat at your desk.

Can't wait ...I love being in an office with a bunch of pi$$ed of co workers that don't want to be there

At this rate just fire everyone and go full blown AI and get it over with you sc-mmy management. It’s where this is heading anyway. Nasty people on top make toxic and cold work culture where all of us feel sick and unwelcome.

It's becoming a rat ship. No personalized items ? Just keep it the way you found it so the next Peasant can take over where the prior Peasant left off. Apparently they want mindless robots

So now we’re also cleaning service at the end of the day? No personal items allowed as trying to disassociate us and make the environment cold and jail like and then I have to clean the desk too? Tell Gunjan to clean it if that’s her McKinsey idea.

That’s NOT lotion! Trust me.

It’s gross because there are people who eat, clip nails, brush hair etc at shared desks and do not clean up.
Keyboard and mouse are shared as well, so when you work the next day where someone prior is lotion heavy, everything is slimy.

Post ID: @pin+1sln9YCq Is accurate, it’s what they will do at these hubs. There’s a chance that you can sit at the same desk every day if you get in early. But the bottom line is that the cubes are interchangeable. They are not to be personalized, they are to be wiped down for the next person to use, just like you wished it was wiped down for you to use. They feel that it will be more efficient this way however that remains to be seen.

I see a lot of you shaking your heads, but don’t shoot the messenger.

I currently work in a shared desk environment, here's how it works for us:

• Yes, there are no assigned desks. It's first come, first served. There's not enough desks for all the people assigned to our office, so if everyone shows up on a certain day, that's a problem. And now they want to bring remote people back, that will make things worse.

• We have a couple of senior managers that have their own offices, all the other former offices have been repurposed into meeting rooms. The lower-level department managers have manager desks which work similar to the others, on a first come, first served basis. We have had managers that have had to sit in a non-manager desk.

• Eating/drinking at your desk is definitely allowed. Formally, the management doesn't encourage it, but they don't tell us we can't do it.

• Yes, they do tell us to wipe down our desks at end of day and provide wipes for us to do so.

Yeah that’s not happening. If I’m working in office I’ll do like I did before I was promised I’d be WFH forever, and eat at my desk. I did it at my old desk, at home, and will continue to do so. I’m not going to sit in some crowded break room with a bunch of people who aren’t on my team when I could be working while I eat so I can leave earlier.

I’d also like to see how upset managers get when people sit in their office now that it’s officially a flex space. Are they expected to sit in cubes now?

Yea, I will be eating at my desk.

I’m OP. You’re all right about the no drinks part. My mistake, wasn’t trying to be intentionally misleading.

It doesn't say all this. There's only a stipulation around eating in your cube --- not drinking.

The "no drinks" is fake news.

I hope this is untrue. Where was this posted? I can understand eating, but having a coffee or soda? That's crazy.

Sounds like we’re supposed to be robots. Disgusting co-mies.

No water, coffee, or tea? Are you kidding? How are they even going to enforce that? Have people snitch? That’s going to improve morale. Most of us have some kind of drink at our desk.

They want us to walk to break room every 30 minutes for a sip of water? Very productive

This gets worse by the day.

I keep reading this and I think it’s still April fools days

This isn’t real

No eating or drinking at cube is total nonsense. All of the years when I used to work in an office setting I always had some sort of drink to sip on next to me when working. I do this at home now as well. I can't imagine working all day without one.