spoiled brats

today i've listened to nothing but moaning and complaining about our new office...

for some reason, the plans/layout for this new office are being kept very hush-hush but someone got a look at the new layout (well, me too but i didn't share because let's be honest, what's the point?) and now talk of it is all anyone can converse about.

the big babies are crying over the fact that they are losing their offices. with walls! wah, wah... it's going to be loud! there won't be any privacy! they have to share a "workspace"... etc.

in actual fact, they've been pampered in the office department for the last 20+ years. most offices now are these open concpet dealies where it's just all cubicles. it's a cheaper solution and it encourages more interaction between co-workers. around here right now, essentially no one speaks to one another unless it's abosolutely necessary or if they accidentally bump into each other in the coffee room.

i'm not against these open offices having never had an actual walled-in office of my own but i am slightly against the exact setup planned for the new office. here's a reminder of what the new office will be like:
yay cubicles! but boo having them all aligned... and boo for only 2 walls per person. it's like you've been bad and so now you have to go sit in the corner! and not only that, 4 for you have been bad and you're each sitting in a different corner of the room! sneaking looks over your shoulder to make sure no of the others being punished are continuing to be bad, perhaps hoping to buy yourself some parole for good behaviour...

and there is my main reason for disliking the new setup... you've got 3 pairs of eyes (albeit possibly eyes in the backs of heads) on you at all times! so i'm not the most fastideous worker... but if i had to do real work all day long, for 8 hours straight, i'd surely go insane! a) i don't actually have that much work! and b) it's SO booorrring! maybe, if we're lucky, they'll turn the work stations around so we're all facing the middle of the "room" and we lose the bad kid feel of sitting facing the corner...

anyway, all this complaining that's going on isn't happening in the privacy of the soon-to-be-gone offices, it's happening out in the middle of the cubicled area where i am! so it's like a free preview of what it's going to be like! i don't think the complainers are quite grasping the irony of the situation...