Curious what your locations are like around the use of flex office space. As we know these offices should be used for private conversations or meetings as needed and not to be used for a full day of work. Is your location like mine where anyone with an SVP officer title are all self absorbed and have turned these spaces into their own personal offices and not allowing fair access to them? Extreme ego maniacs, you’re not that important!
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I have an approved ADA accommodation for extreme Aerophagia. Bank must allow me a private office mercifully including keeping door shut for people in my work neighborhood.
Major issue in Charlotte is people reserve space, do not show up, and if they do, they forgo their cube and sit in one of the offices, and if it has frosted windows, they never leave. compliance folks may show up and then leave by 1:30.
I will spend every minute of my RTO in a flex office until someone or some system tells me I cannot. I raised this issue early on and nobody cared so now I’m just playing the game.
@aq dude I didn’t say I was the one reserving the space and that I don’t empathize with both sides. Why are you going off on people?
I’m not sure how much T you’re taking but you gotta slow your roll. Just because you are watching po-n and hacking off on the keyboard doesn’t mean we have to accommodate your fu-kery. Go get a masters at St Thomas.
Sounds like a "you" problem. Let's keep it that way. Thanks.
If I have back to back calls in one day, or one on ones with my staff, I’m booking an office. #sorrynotsorry #snoozeyalose
Reserving flex space is not the issue.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, using it for more than its intended purpose, and preventing your coworkers from being able to utilize the same space (which, despite your disregard for this fact: they are just as ENTITLED to use as you are) is what's wrong with what you're doing.
Note the name "Flex Office" itself, which has the word, "FLEX" in it.
That's in regard to time spans of its use.
It's not a "PERM" and/or "PRIVATE" office, reserved for you personally, on an all-day/every dat basiy.
It's space to be used FLEXIBLY, open to EVERYONE to be able to use.
Stop being a hog.
Stop being an immature, petty, selfish tw@t.
Stop try to rationalize, downplay, and excuse your inexcusable behavior.
You shouldn't be using it all day, and you know it.
Hard stop.
You can use noise-canceling headphones to block out the "nonsense" around you when sitting in open space along with everyone else. Sure it can be annoying to deal with but hey, a lot of things in life are, but as an ADULT, you su-k it up and DEAL with it, and especially at work, you deal with it in an appropriately professional manner.
You don't default down to middle-schoolgirl petty defiance.
You aren't special.
You're being passive-aggressive and arrogant, hiding behind some sort of snowflake insistence that your needs so "different" and therefore deserving of special accommodations.
FFS if you're that "handicapped" that you can't function in an open office space, or aren't socially and professionally capable of working out some sort of compromise with your nearby coworkers about noise, then maybe you should apply for disability and or get yourself heavily medicated enough so that you can cope with life's basics.
Yes, there are some self-important low-level people in my hub location (AVPs) who only work in private offices. Their roles do not support the need. They don't speak to anyone else in the building, just go straight into "their" flex office, close the door, "work", and emerge to use the restroom or get lunch or leave. I'm sure they sometimes are on calls but so is everyone else. We get headphones and deal with it.
Because HR can’t really give accommodations to work from home in silence, part of the accommodation process encourages renting of flex offices. You can thank leadership for that brilliant idea (god forbid someone works more effectively from home). Whoever wants to turn back the clock to when we all listened to each other gab and didn’t get as much done in busy offices be my guest but with more and more work put on us and the feeling of less autonomy people will reserve flex offices to block out the nonsense.
- Not all of us have jobs that require talking all day (also why are you talking so much?)
- Being heads down without interruption is critical in many positions.
I don’t blame people for being upset about it. Just don’t assume people are je-ks cause they reserve a flex space. It’s a symptom of the issue.
Yup ppl who think they are important hide in a flex office all day
My location has extremes. On my floor we have literally 2 flex offices, and an SVP takes one of them M-W every single week. Another floor has more than enough offices and they're filled by ICs who camp all day long.
I book one for the day at any opportunity. I'm not slumming it out there with the plebeians unless I absolutely have to.
@ab you must be one of those entitled pr!cks with your feet up on a desk right now
Make signs using AI and cardstock, featuring a sleeping bag, tent, campfire.
Have the copy on the sign reading something like, "NO CAMPING!"
or
"Don't be a b-m - NO CAMPING HERE!"
or
"This isn't your private office. It's a public space. Stop being selfish.
Reserve it for 1 hour maximum per day."
or
"Other people work here, not just you.
This space is for EVERYONE to USE.
Daily personal time limit is 1 hour.
RESPECT the RULE!"
or
"Kindly FU*K OFF back to a desk, after using this room for no more than 1 hour per day.
~ Thank You!"
Impossible to get an office even for a 30 minute private call at our location because of these j@ck@sses! Who can we escalate this with? There are no provided resources to reach out to. Person that runs the office cowers in the corner afraid to directly say or address the situation.
The svps I know are legitimately on calls that require confidentiality throughout the day, sl can't fault them. It's the others who aren't on those types of calls who feel having to be on calls is sufficient reason to grab one all day, making it impossible to get one when you do have to have a private convo.
Whether it's the office or the warzone, NOBODY LIKES CAMPERS
Yes. There are a handful of SVPs in our hub that routinely hide out in our limited flex spaces all day every day. Some have no direct reports. We never see them.
Yes, this is nearly a daily occurrence.