*clicks hard*
I also work in IT, and the habit of Musical Offices is the bane of our lives.

What we find usually happens, no matter how many times we protest and ask for better planning next time, is that they'll actually move without telling anyone then get straight on the phone to IT with "Hey I just moved I NEED MY COMPUTER AND PHONE CONNECTING NOW!! Help, I can't do any work this is an emergency people will die the world will explode!!!" (wait, it wasn't such an emergency when you were spending 2 days moving your shit around because you were bored?) and so we have to drop everything else and get them sorted. Or they'll pick the one corner of the building that doesn't have any cabling nearby, or insist on the centre of an office that doesn't have floor boxes.

And yes, the amount of shit they stick to their monitors, side of PC, photos and birthday cards straddled over monitor and keyboard cables etc... eek.

As you say, there's always a lot of money pissage, not just our time (therefore wages on time that could've been spent doing something more constructive) but that of the maintenance crew and costs involving redecorating, changing walls, adding cables and termination, etc etc/
(Cloudane, Sun 13 Jun 2010, 0:52, 1 reply)

^^ All this
They make me laugh at our place, You're an HR monkey, you moved without telling us, of course we have no idea where you're all sitting.. I've got 3 confused IT guys here in reception that have no idea either.. Here's one, why not let people know beforehand? Pah!
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Sun 13 Jun 2010, 10:59, closed)

Cronyism
Is also rampant as I work in the media industry. Virtually every time someone gets a job of any importance the first anyone knows about it is when an email goes out telling us to congratulate them. Never a chance for anyone else to apply as it was already decided (that the job goes to their buddy).

Zero notice new starters are another frequent thing; The fun part being they usually have no where to sit in the department they are supposed to be working with, as no one thought to make sure there would actually be a desk available. Que them asking us where the person can sit. Oh, and 'if they can also have a computer to work on as they're already in the building that would be great yeah'.

As for the office moves they should now be a little easier because we recently put IP phones at every desk and every computer runs through them, so we no longer have to patch any cables in. Yay.

Macs are another thing that bug me - I'm pro choice and happy that they exist, they do some great things and innovate. However they're still crap in a corporate environment. Give me a Windows PC any day! ;)
(Future Handsome Young Millionare, Sun 13 Jun 2010, 20:44, closed)