Senior Feds Sharing Offices
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Anonymous
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We just found out that our federal agency is losing space one year from today. Will mean many employees will have to share offices. I’ve been working for over 20 years. I can’t imagine working in the office every day and sharing an office.
Feds who are already there - how is it going and how are you managing it? Should I give myself 1 year to leave? |
Anonymous
What's so bad about sharing an office? I work at one of the labs, old building, with hard offices (i.e., no cubicles). They're plenty large enough for two people to share without getting in each other's way. |
Anonymous
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All of our old federal buildings downtown have shared offices. They're WAY preferable to a cubicle. I've really enjoyed my officemates over the years. You definitely get close to them.
In my current building though our offices are to tiny that there would be no way to fit 2 desks in. It's not much bigger than a cubicle. |
Anonymous
| I don't see the problem, OP. Buck up. |
Anonymous
What is a senior Fed? Are you SES? |
Anonymous
| seriously- this should be the least of your issues with this administration. Buy yourself a pair of good head phones. |
Anonymous
| Hopefully the loss of space will necessitate your agency to increase telework days. The two should go together. |
Anonymous
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It's really loud and confidential information invariably bleeds through either from an office mate or from our paper thin walls. But they set it up this way and I dont think companies dont really care if other companies hear about their legal and regulatory issues anyways.
I do everything electronically so storage space isnt an issue for me but it is hard to get in and out with my desk so close to the wall. |
Anonymous
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I’m a GS-15 and had a desk in dead-end hallway for four years. After enough retirements I now have an office, but it doesn’t protect from the noise of my neighbors with apparent chronic upper respiratory issues.
Hope you at least get to pick your office mate! And be kind and don’t wear perfume or heavy scents (I say as someone who is not particularly sensitive to smell). |
Anonymous
In our office they arrange office mates based on temperature preferences. We have part of the wing called "the tropics" and a side called "the arctic". These are old offices that all have window units that we can control the temperature on. I feel lucky to live in the tropics. |
Anonymous
| I’m in a cube farm. First world problems OP. |
Anonymous
| Yuck, I’d rather work at home |
Anonymous
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Some of our mid-level have to share but so far our senior people do not. Sharing is tough because we are all on conference calls all the time, talking over each other, or else trying to do quiet reasing and writing. And of course people eat and hum and so on.
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Anonymous
| I hear you, OP. I just cannot imagine. My agency is heading in same direction and people are losing their minds. I’ve never shared an office and am sure I will have some concentration issues and won’t be comfortable. |
Anonymous
| Only SES get offices in my agency. The rest of us have to reserve our seats daily. You've got it pretty nice. |