asking manager for office
I work on a small team as the most junior (by a year or two) and I sit in a cube. Every single one of my team members and other teams have offices and I do not. Its super loud where I am since there's a bunch of conference rooms nearby. I also get a little embarrassed that I'm in a cube and literally EVERYONE is in an office. The only other people are in a cube farm with me are admins and interns. I am neither. I've been told my performance is solid.
I brought this up to y manager (focused on the sound aspect) and she's trying to figure out if they can move a bunch of people around to get me an office. I feel bad that people have to move around because of me but I also feel a little jaded that I even had to bring this up in the first place where its quite obvious that I should be in an office.
Would this piss anyone else off too? What should I think of this?
This seems like a really weird thing to get upset about, unless you are like a director+. Even then, I know VPs and directors who sit on the floor. It's not like people junior to you have offices, you are the most junior.
I would never ask to move people around to get an office, unless I was an MD maybe. Can't you just fill an empty office or get the next office available if someone leaves? Any quieter cubicles or can you wear headphones?
It's fine if you are sound sensitive but I don't get the whole jaded thing.. you are the most junior and it seems like there are no offices?
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Okay but people will still be majorly pissed if they are shuffling multiple offices just for you to sit in one. It's a big pain to move offices. Doesn't really matter what other teams do
I still think you're being overly dramatic, sorry to be harsh just think people will look at you sideways if you make a big deal of this. Either take an open office a bit farther away from your team, find a new cubicle, or just sit tight until an office opens. This is not the huge affront you seem to think it is.
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You mention being most junior on the team, but are you a seasoned professional and just lateralled over to this so you have some actual pertinent background? On top of that, come direct and say that you want an office for productivity reasons but you're not out to irritate others for no reason by making them move "because f*** you, that's why". THAT is for the MDs eloquence was mentioning.
On top of that, did you ever broach the subject of being able to maybe work remote at least part of the week as a compromise? Or see if you can work out a deal where one of your teammates also gets to work remote a couple days a week and you two rotate through that office when you have to come in? If you're not client facing and are pretty much just an excel/ppt jockey...(no offense, but you copped to being low on the totem pole). Or do what myself and other colleagues have done before and book up a conference room for half the day and just camp out there. Don't hide why and be up front, but let it demonstrate you felt you were compelled to because you need some private space to be productive. Never mention the idea that you feel like you're being downgraded since you're sitting amongst the admins and interns instead. But if you do, gotta post the comedy that'd going to happen afterwards so we can have a good chuckle and you can share what not to do as penance.
And no, that kind of situation never pissed me off because I found ways to work around it (no pun intended) and handled it with diplomacy vs being pissy. And check your ego thinking that you're entitled to having an office. There could be plenty of reasons you don't know about why you weren't granted one off the bat and it could be as simple as what you admitted yourself that there's just not enough available. You don't know if one of your team is shipping out in a month to some place else and you're in line for that office. Or if the company is planning behind the scenes to move the office to a bigger space where you'd have your own office too. Or if they're pondering the idea of reallocating one of those smaller conference rooms as an office for you. Etc, etc.
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