Heh. We can blame Trump, as I worked for a government agency at the time. (I took the early retirement and am now a photographer/bicycle mechanic.)
There’s a back story to how we got into that situation. During the pandemic, we were all teleworking, and they decided to renovate our building, so they had us go in and take all of our stuff home, or dispose of things we didn’t need. The plan, created and approved during Trump’s first term, was that we would shrink our footprint and move another agency into our building, and most of us would be teleworking most of the time, so the desks were set up with hoteling in mind, with fewer of them, because with hoteling, we didn’t need as many. Win for everyone!
Trump came along again and decided we should all be back in the office. It just threw everything into chaos. There weren’t enough offices and cubicles for everyone, and it was a mess.
Had I stayed, I would have gotten an office again (I had one before the pandemic, and was the longest-tenured branch chief in our division). But there were enough other issues going on with my job in particular that I took the opportunity to get out.
Heh. We can blame Trump, as I worked for a government agency at the time. (I took the early retirement and am now a photographer/bicycle mechanic.)
There’s a back story to how we got into that situation. During the pandemic, we were all teleworking, and they decided to renovate our building, so they had us go in and take all of our stuff home, or dispose of things we didn’t need. The plan, created and approved during Trump’s first term, was that we would shrink our footprint and move another agency into our building, and most of us would be teleworking most of the time, so the desks were set up with hoteling in mind, with fewer of them, because with hoteling, we didn’t need as many. Win for everyone!
Trump came along again and decided we should all be back in the office. It just threw everything into chaos. There weren’t enough offices and cubicles for everyone, and it was a mess.
Had I stayed, I would have gotten an office again (I had one before the pandemic, and was the longest-tenured branch chief in our division). But there were enough other issues going on with my job in particular that I took the opportunity to get out.