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Name: neener
School: USC Marshall School of Business
Status: Employed...finally
E-mail: Click here!
Reason for blogging: I'm incredibly self-absorbed. |
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I'm listening to...
::"Stay Beautiful," The Last Goodnight
::"Spaceman," The Killers
::"Green Light," John Legend
::"Superstar," Lupe Fiasco
I'm watching...
::24
::The Office
I'm reading...
::Taiwan, A Political History, by Denny Roy
::The Devil and Miss Prym, by Paulo Coehlo
I've just seen...
::Slumdog Millionaire
::I Love You, Man
::The Reader
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Transparency at the Workplace. At the office building of my now nonexistent employer (thanks, economy!), we had no free coffee. You had to walk down two floors to the cafeteria if you wanted hot water for your tea. Each of us sat in these ugly beige cubicles, surrounded by ugly beige walls that were only occasionally interrupted by giant hanging photographs of our merchandise, tinted a depressing shade of blue.
My new office is different. Yes, for the most part you have those generic off-white and beige walls that seem to be standard for every office, but we also have accent walls. We have artwork on the walls. We have hot water a five-second walk away. A George Foreman grill in case your lunch requires grilling. Free coffee. Free drinks out of a Flavia machine. Pretty new, non-grimy cubicles. Nice, right?
Well, I have a complaint. It's those cubicles. Sure, they're clean. Sure, there's no odd sticky spot that just will not go away despite how much cleaner you spray on it. Sure, they come with a cabinet where you can hang your coat. But one of my cubicle walls is a "window"! This is not ideal.
I used to have a private office that had a terrible setup where my back faced my office door. For most people, this is bad, because they don't want people surprising them from behind while they're instant messaging or surfing some inappropriate sites or just goofing off. I don't like people looking over my shoulder either, but that's not a huge issue for me. I never surf work-inappropriate sites, and frankly, I think I'm competent and efficient enough at what I do that my bosses shouldn't give a crap if I do instant message or read the news or check my email while I'm on the job. So, usually the whole open cube thing versus having your own office doesn't bother me. It's the dang transparent window that looks out onto the rest of the floor. The only inappropriate thing I very occasionally do at work is space out. I can't help it...sometimes staring at spreadsheets for hours on end does that to me. If I spaced out in my old cube, no one could tell as they approached me, and once they did, the time it took me to swivel in my chair to face them was enough for me to recover my composure. But now I can't do that! People who approach my cube can see through the window right at my face as I look at my monitor. There is nowhere to hide! No blind spot! This is one area where I will shout a resounding "NO!" to transparency in the workplace.Labels: work
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When I learn a new word, I'll put it here so you can learn too!
EBITAS (noun):
Abbreviation for "Earnings Before Income Tax, Amortization, and SGARA." Next week, find out what SGARA is.
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