Booted from 2-desk corner office to "cube" today.

[BluePatriot]

Because instead of sharing, the new supervisor wants her OWN office. And they had "no idea it would bother me" riiight.

I feel pretty violent right now. No, wait, that's an understatement.

So, here's the checklist.

1) Pregnant boss leaves. I train for and cover her work, going from handling 4 accounts to 12.
2) Supervisor of pregnant boss, who was to be my boss, demoted and new supervisor brought in. Demotion probably deserved but she is still above me. Predictable power struggles ensue.
3) New supervisor used to have own office, hangs out in cubes a while to get to know folks, was to move in to my office at empty 2nd desk, but has now tossed me out totally.
4) I now have triple the workload in a cube -- with a new big boss and pissed off demoted minor boss -- for the same pay.

Just shoot me. Really. I'm sure I can take a bullet for the "team" at this point.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. That really sucks

I don't know what to say except that I hope things get better soon. :hug:

[BluePatriot]

2. I'm playing hooky today

take THAT, managers at job, enjoy seeing how much I do all day and coming to sane realizations and compromises!

Right.

/polishes up resume

[My Good Babushka]

3. what a load of balls!

I hope you find someplace better to work. I know so many great people who are really underappreciated and totally overburdenend by clueless supervisors. I really wish there was an officeworker's union. As a corollary, I don't know why so many people put up with the working conditions we've come to accept as standard, other than everyone has been isolated and pitted against one another.

[raccoon]

8. They put up with it because it's so effing hard to find another job, especially

to find a "good" job.

[grace0418]

13. I think people put up with it because it's so pervasive. If it's not happening at one

shitty job it's happening at another. I've had six different jobs since I graduated college in 1992, and honestly I couldn't tell you which one was the worst. All of them had their own special hellish ways of making me want to give up and live on the streets. My current job is no exception.

I was so excited when I started here because a) a friend who already worked here got me the job and told me she really loved it and b) the person who hired me told me that my friend and I were hired to breath new and fresh design ideas into the department. Within six months things started to change. Everything we designed got shot down because it was too "upscale" or "edgy" for the average Walmart buyer (we were told the company was going to break into more upscale/boutique markets). We got stuck doing god-awful, flowery, goose-dressed-in-a-bonnet crap. When we dared to ask why our talents weren't being used, we were told to shut up and do what we were told. We got branded as "complainers" and "not team players". Since then it's been one thing after another, and I've wasted 7 years I'm never going to get back. But after so many jobs that seemed so promising at first, it's hard to think that anything out there is going to be any better.

[NashVegas]

4. Ask for a Raise

Explain to management that although you haven't actually been demoted, all signs say otherwise and if that's not the case, you want to see a little proof.

[DS1]

5. *pfft* that's nothing

I lost an office to a cube so a scumfuck lawyer from a different branch could use it one day a month

your misery falls upon deaf ears

[Bullwinkle925]

6. Take a deep breath ........

and consider yourself lucky if this is the worst thing happening in your life right now.
Things will get better.
:hug:

[grace0418]

7. You don't work at my office do you?

Because it sounds exactly like the bullshit that goes on here every day. Which is why, as soon as our condo is sold, I am getting the fuck out of here.

:hug: BP, hope things get better soon. If not at that job, then hopefully somewhere else.

[Left Is Write]

9. That really sucks! If it makes you feel any better at all...

I'm a supervisor without an office or an email account. I don't mind using my own laptop to do work-related stuff (I bill for the time and paper/ink), but the last two times I've interviewed potential employees I had to ask to borrow an office.

[raccoon]

10. Agree, this sucks.

Sorry this happened, Blue.

[deepthought42]

11. That is shitty of them...

:hug: to my fellow cube-dweller. Well, technically I live in a fish bowl. No one sits near me, talks to me, tells me things I might need to know to make my job a little less stressful, etc. I face a hallway. And they wonder why I don't want to eat lunch in the office while everyone else eats and talks to everyone but me...sigh

[leftofthedial]

12. I wish I had a job.

But it's amazing how oblivious corporations can be. I don't blame you for being pissed.

[Wapsie B]

14. Just remember buying groceries is good.

Paying the rent/mortgage is good, along with the utilities and all the rest. Only you can determine if it's time to redo your resume and talk to a recruiter.

[Lex]

15. Let 'em back-bite each other to demotions and then you get

the office and the promotion. (Trying to think positively for you!)

[Yavin4]

16. Here's What You Need To Do

1. Focus on paying off all of your bills.

2. Save enough money to live a year without a job

3. Quit your job.

4. Life is too short to be miserable all of the time.