Decision(?) Making

We are moving to a new office and seats were being assigned. So, the alignment started basis hierarchy and the VP/AVP population obviously choose the corner cabins/cubicles. Next in line were the Senior Managers, with yours truly being one of them. Now there were 5 cubicles left and 7 SMs to be seated. So, in a common sense scenario, you’d look at the profile & the job requirement and take a call. For eg. If someone is on a lot of customer calls, he gets one or if someone is in a role which has a higher privacy demand, he gets one. But lo & behold, how did we decide? We picked chits!! Yes!! School is not yet over and we still make long standing decisions by picking chits!!

 

And guess what? HR didn’t get a cubicle..(mebbe my boss isn’t lucky enough..I should’ve picked mine!!) and we, the ones whose main job is discussing about employees’ & their related concerns, will now sit in proximity with Operations. Bang in the middle of the floor!! So everyone can see what we are working on, who we meet, what we talk to bosses about their teams, so and so forth.

 

At first, I was fuming..and then couldn’t help but laugh at the stupidity of the whole thing. I even thought mebbe it was part of a sinister design to keep HR in spotlight…so I decided to let these guys have a taste of their own genius plan. All it will take is a detail of one senior guy to leak on the floor and watch the show unfold. Ha Ha Ha.

 

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