Yes, definitely suffering. The opening of my cube is directly across the office door of the most horrible, evil HR Director known to humanity. The things I hear....
Yes, definitely suffering. The opening of my cube is directly across the office door of the most horrible, evil HR Director known to humanity. The things I hear....
She plays favorites for one and if you're not one of her buddies, watch out because she will take every possible opportunity to make your life hell. I once made the mistake of questioning something someone in her department did. The person, who is actually a friend of mine outside of work, made a legit mistake that I had to ask to be corrected, well HRD flipped her shit, went to my boss and threatened to write me up because what right did I have to question anything her and her staff did? In the position I'm in, I do actually have the right to ask them to fix mistakes they've made.
But really the worst part is that she is LOUD and obnoxious and she gossips. For someone that is in HR I've never met a human being who is as indiscrete as she is. Being across the hall from her I hear a lot of things about people that I really shouldn't hear and I don't wan't to hear.
Her staff hates her and she's had a decent amount of turnover in the 4 years I've been at my job. My friend in the department quit less than a year ago and it's not looking like her replacement (who is really sweet) is going to make it through the year, the poor girl. She's just a nightmare. Oh and she reminds me of the "bad" teacher from "Ms. Nelson's Gone Missing" - if you ever read that as a kid.
I work outside the HR office too. I have no empathy, so when people go in and are crying about stupid things, I just sit in my cubicle and laugh. Awful, I know.
We're an office with very little technical staff - most work at other places around the country and we're just the support functions. If people were going to go into her office to talk at least they'd shut the damn door. Most of the conversations I hear are over the phone and apparently she thinks if she's talking on the phone nobody except the person on the other end can hear her.
We just moved to this office space. I had my own office at the old place and now I'm stuck in a cube - it's depressing.
Do you at least have 4 cubey walls? I have one and a wall. My computer faces out into the world, so people can come up behind me and see what I'm doing. :-/
Yeah, more like 3.5 since the opening takes up half of one wall. The way our desks were positioned my back would have been to the opening but I was able to shift my computer juuuust enough that I can see when people come to the opening. That sucks that people can walk up behind you and see what you're doing
Yeah, more like 3.5 since the opening takes up half of one wall. The way our desks were positioned my back would have been to the opening but I was able to shift my computer juuuust enough that I can see when people come to the opening. That sucks that people can walk up behind you and see what you're doing
I'm in a technical position, so they gave us two monitors. I have one setup just with my outlook on it and that one is pointed out the opening. I have the other one tilted away from the opening, but people walking by can still see if they take a really good look.
Re: Cube Farm
Yes, definitely suffering. The opening of my cube is directly across the office door of the most horrible, evil HR Director known to humanity. The things I hear....
She plays favorites for one and if you're not one of her buddies, watch out because she will take every possible opportunity to make your life hell. I once made the mistake of questioning something someone in her department did. The person, who is actually a friend of mine outside of work, made a legit mistake that I had to ask to be corrected, well HRD flipped her shit, went to my boss and threatened to write me up because what right did I have to question anything her and her staff did? In the position I'm in, I do actually have the right to ask them to fix mistakes they've made.
But really the worst part is that she is LOUD and obnoxious and she gossips. For someone that is in HR I've never met a human being who is as indiscrete as she is. Being across the hall from her I hear a lot of things about people that I really shouldn't hear and I don't wan't to hear.
Her staff hates her and she's had a decent amount of turnover in the 4 years I've been at my job. My friend in the department quit less than a year ago and it's not looking like her replacement (who is really sweet) is going to make it through the year, the poor girl. She's just a nightmare. Oh and she reminds me of the "bad" teacher from "Ms. Nelson's Gone Missing" - if you ever read that as a kid.
We're an office with very little technical staff - most work at other places around the country and we're just the support functions. If people were going to go into her office to talk at least they'd shut the damn door. Most of the conversations I hear are over the phone and apparently she thinks if she's talking on the phone nobody except the person on the other end can hear her.
We just moved to this office space. I had my own office at the old place and now I'm stuck in a cube - it's depressing.
I'm in a technical position, so they gave us two monitors. I have one setup just with my outlook on it and that one is pointed out the opening. I have the other one tilted away from the opening, but people walking by can still see if they take a really good look.