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Jul 18, 2018
8:35:11am

mudpupper All-American

Adapting is fine and necessary. But I see people change for the sake of

changing. They try new and different things because that is all they know how to do. Instead of tackling the issue, researching solutions, and addressing the real problems they just try the latest, trendiest thing because that is the only trick they have up their sleeve.

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mudpupper

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My company doesn’t have assigned desks...

ballen

7/18/18 7:22am

Sounds absolutely terrible. Can you just work from home?

Odysseus

7/18/18 7:24am

No. Too many meetings, which is how they justify it.

ballen

7/18/18 7:25am

What year is it? Have people not heard of Skype?

7/18/18 7:59am

Design meetings are never as good via Skype.

Nathanael Greene

7/18/18 8:54am

Do tell where you work so we don’t make the same mistake.

dadofkhec

7/18/18 7:29am

Not in Utah so I doubt you guys will stumble upon it.

ballen

7/18/18 7:29am

The only company I’ve ever personally seen do this is Hudl.

Duke Silver

7/18/18 7:43am

That’s too bad. Is there an anonymous way to express your frustration?

dadofkhec

7/18/18 11:36am

my last job had this. you usually just ended up sitting in the same spot every

Martin Van Nostrand

7/18/18 7:36am

How long did you work at Goldman?

itsuptoyou

7/18/18 7:40am

good catch... a few years but only the last year was mobile seating

Martin Van Nostrand

7/18/18 7:44am

Our company just move to that for staff and seniors...being on the other end

Fdnman

7/18/18 7:46am

if those flexible work arrangements don't include working from home and tele-wor

Saxa

7/18/18 7:52am

They are audit staff/seniors...so they really are out of the office more days

Fdnman

7/18/18 8:00am

If space costs too much you are in the wrong location - move to a cheaper town

ArchbishopMitty

7/18/18 1:27pm

No duel monitors is insane.

JuicyJam

7/18/18 7:50am

Two monitors is so 10 years ago

Dzog

7/18/18 8:00am

I guess I shouldn't complain that my corner office doesn't have any windows.

slowhiteguy

7/18/18 7:55am

Sometimes upper management people just think too much.

mudpupper

7/18/18 8:15am

On the other hand...doing things the same way we have for decades doesn't

Fdnman

7/18/18 8:23am

Adapting is fine and necessary. But I see people change for the sake of

mudpupper

7/18/18 8:35am

I think that “researching” is what a lot of companies are doing.

Superman21

7/18/18 8:59am

Everyone should have the option for a private office. If you want to sit in an

ArchbishopMitty

7/18/18 4:06pm

Not to mention, where I worked before

Superman21

7/18/18 5:08pm

So we should just do things that are known to be dumb for the sake of

ArchbishopMitty

7/18/18 4:02pm

TBF, that's actually upper management not thinking *enough*.

outlier

7/18/18 8:38am

"innovation" is sometimes the opiate for the un-thinking highly positioned

ArchbishopMitty

7/18/18 1:30pm

I have only seen that for large consulting operations

bluelands

7/18/18 8:47am

We do that at my internship, but everyone ends up using the same desk

TCuz

7/18/18 9:39am

That really sucks, sounds like they are trying to cut productivity big time

ArchbishopMitty

7/18/18 1:28pm

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