A little bit of payback...
Sep. 11th, 2008 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psyche29Today, the lady who does all the supply ordering came to my desk with a worker guy and a cart with a huge package on it. She wanted to know if I ordered a "pedestal" for my desk.
I did, but only remotely. It wasn't even me, it was the manager who's gung-ho to move me back to the other end. And just for the record, "pedestal" = "file drawers to go under the desk."
So I take her and the worker guy(who was WAY hot, man, I could've licked him) over to where I'm supposed to be moving, and the first thing he does is measure the one fixed table. Yay, the drawers will fit.
But here's where it gets tricky: because the space is NOT meant for a desk of any kind, there are important, necessary wires sticking out one side from both the wall and the cubicle wall. So he can't stick it on the right side, he'll have to stick it in the middle - which means I wouldn't have any place to stick my legs, I'd be straddling a file cabinet all day, every day.
I point out, "Hey, what if we move this unfixed table to the other side - could you put the drawers on the left?" He says sure, and proceeds to pick up the table all on his own and move it (love muscles, sometimes). Then he gets down to check the left side, there.
Alas - thats where BOTH plugs are for me to plug stuff in. Go figure. So now my supervisor is over there, trying to decide what we should do. She's on the fixed desk, leaning over the cube wall to see if there are plugs on the other side, then she's on the floor, trying to determine which wires are which.
I, being brilliant, announce that we could always just use a frigging extension cord like I had to at my OLD desk. Light bulbs go on over three other heads, and the hunt is on for a surge protector unit with an extension cord. Two other supervisors are consulted and the entire floor is being searched.
I went back to my current desk and left them to it...God, what a circus.
The only bad thing about all this? The manager wasn't even on the floor to see what kind of havoc she's created. *rolls eyes* People really should just listen to me in the first place.
I did, but only remotely. It wasn't even me, it was the manager who's gung-ho to move me back to the other end. And just for the record, "pedestal" = "file drawers to go under the desk."
So I take her and the worker guy
But here's where it gets tricky: because the space is NOT meant for a desk of any kind, there are important, necessary wires sticking out one side from both the wall and the cubicle wall. So he can't stick it on the right side, he'll have to stick it in the middle - which means I wouldn't have any place to stick my legs, I'd be straddling a file cabinet all day, every day.
I point out, "Hey, what if we move this unfixed table to the other side - could you put the drawers on the left?" He says sure, and proceeds to pick up the table all on his own and move it (love muscles, sometimes). Then he gets down to check the left side, there.
Alas - thats where BOTH plugs are for me to plug stuff in. Go figure. So now my supervisor is over there, trying to decide what we should do. She's on the fixed desk, leaning over the cube wall to see if there are plugs on the other side, then she's on the floor, trying to determine which wires are which.
I, being brilliant, announce that we could always just use a frigging extension cord like I had to at my OLD desk. Light bulbs go on over three other heads, and the hunt is on for a surge protector unit with an extension cord. Two other supervisors are consulted and the entire floor is being searched.
I went back to my current desk and left them to it...God, what a circus.
The only bad thing about all this? The manager wasn't even on the floor to see what kind of havoc she's created. *rolls eyes* People really should just listen to me in the first place.
