Hotdesking
Bollocks isn't it? Got some massive shitbag next to me now. Anyone can turn up at any time in the hotdesk seat.
Outlaw it. NOW!
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I don't know what you mean
I'm still wearing a dressing gown
Imagine if any time of the day someone (not approved by you)
lay in a fold out cot next to your bed and stayed there until they chose to leave. They may also chose to make inane small talk with you or talk about business that you are not interested in.
Do I have to put on pants?
and a tie!
I'm getting a lock for my room
employ the
turn on the pc next to you and chuck a few papers across the desk method. It's the office equivalent of the Hun and their towels on holiday (no offence).
I'd need a spare laptop to stick on the docking station
Could be worth £500...
smash up the docking station
won't cost you a penny
der todesking
wait
is that a terrible pun on hotlinking?
It's 21st century business speak, grandad
Why is your desk next to a hotdesk?
All the hotdesks get put in a corner out of the way of the decent workers.
Are you hotdesking yourself?
No.
There is but one hotdesk here... I think. Could be one round the corner but no one would want to sit there.
In the office hierarchy, location is everything.
Sounds to me like you're only one rung above a hotdesker - I'd be updating my cv if I were you.
Really
me and the other guy on the bank of two are sort of hotdesking. We only work in this office because it is near where we live. But we are permanent hotdeskers(?). I've got drawers (3).
Oh no.
This must be what doctors feel like when they think they know what's wrong with a patient, then the patient reveals loads more symptoms which make the situation much worse than previously thought.
I'VE GOT DRAWERS!
Do you have a key for them?
I mean, it definitely doesn't all hinge on this at all, but... well, do you?
Yeah and I lock my laptop in them.
Oh!
Well you're fine then. Nothing to worry about.
I'm so sorry Balonx
Sabotage the chair at the hotdesk for tomorrow
all our desks are hotdesks
yeah you heard
Horrible state of affairs
People used to put pictures of their kids on hotdesks to try and mark their territory.
I get in early enough where I get the same desk anyway
it's the lost souls that you see walking the floor at 10:30am trying to find somewhere to work that I pity.
Only thing worse than sitting at a hotdesk
is sitting at a normal desk of someone who's on holiday or something. Loads of weird family photos and printouts of motivational phrases everywhere, feels sinister.
When I first started my current job
I was sitting at the desk of a guy who collected all the name badges he had got at all the (hundreds of) conferences he had ever been to. For two weeks I had to stare at a wall covered in his name. Was like sitting at the desk of Gareth from the Office.
Absolute wank
Meant I could never keep anything in drawers or faff about with my chair. My new work looked at me like I was vaguely challenged when I looked so pleased at having my own desk, but it's a massive victory.
we're having an office move soon.
i'm going to be sat with a load of hot desks. not good.
It could be worse
You could sit next to the ugly desks
i forgot to say, they will be IT hot desks.
apparently.
I'm hot desking in birmingham on friday
Usually goes like this
"Hi, i need to hotdesk"
"there's an igel over there"
"i need an actual pc so i can remote back to my machine so that i can access all the programs that are on my machine so i can do my job"
"there aren't any"
"can't i use yours and you use the igel, you're only the receptionist so you can access everything you need from there"
"no"
*sit there doing nothing take two hour lunch, get train back to manc.
Ich habe einen Igel
vouz avez un bureau chaud?
VOUS
NONVOUS
Legerement
tiède?
YOU'RE ONLY THE RECEPTIONIST AND I AM THE BIG DOG
is this about Meowington?
she is the hottest desk
this made me laugh
Thanks guys
anyone else wanna chime in with how hot I am?
Hello?
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If I am not here
People 'can' use my desk which is permanent. Usually I find network cables remain disconnected, mugs are left on my desk. Once I actually had a lump of chewing gum on the desk. Then again we have signs in the toilets reminding us to flush...
bollocks indeed
it's a constant war around in our office because people do the kind of jobs that require them to have specific computers for software etc reasons, and to have antiquated stuff like papers, notes, even books within reach.
But the Upper Management insists this is a chilled out, creativity-enhancing workspace where anyone can turn up, sit down at a random desk, so officially nobody is allowed to have any object whatsoever on their desk. or under it, like with the Great Pedestal uprising of 2012.
Pretty insensitive time to post such an inane thread, pal
Silkyskillz11 needs all our support.
when I work in the office
all desks in my department are essentially hotdesks. Most of the tools we use are web based so there's no real need for anyone to use specific machines.
We have hot desks (2)
In our Manchester office there are also hot desks but I've never managed to get one and had to sit in the break area for a whole day.
i've read this thread
but i still don't know what hotdesking is
It's a bit like power lunching
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=g98QXm42mmA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dg98QXm42mmA&gl=GB
A desk (or number of desks)
that are not allocated to anyone in particular. This means that anyone can sit at a particular desk on any given day.
Normally used by remote workers who pop into an office sporadically
why is it hot?
sounds like it would be very cold. and possibly covered in crumbs.
this is usually the case
at my old job all of our desks were technically hotdesks
but we were mostly fulltimers so we sorta claimed our own proper desks. but there was this union guy that would sometimes come in and use whatever one wasn't in use that day and use it to shout down the phone about the Tories and stuff. my manager disliked him a lot and we were told not to let him use her desk whilst she was away.
one day I forgot this and he used her desk and spent the whole time he was there eating a Big Mac meal. I can't remember if I ever told her he'd had his greasy processed meat covered fingers all over her desk or not.
(also he was also wearing a Tolpuddle Martyrs baseball cap a lot - where do you even get that? Is there a Tolpuddle Martyrs gift shop somewhere in the south west? I guess there's a museum, but it still seems a little crass)
http://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/shop/home.php?cat=253
must've been a ltd edition
http://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/shop/home.php?cat=255
once i saw a man on the tube with an IRISH PAPA cap
where do you get one of THOSE?
I had to do this the other day. Kind of.
My comp was broken so had to use someone's who was on leave.
She has one of those daft ergonomic keyboards (with the contours, a split down the middle and all different sized keys) and a trackball thing instead of a normal mouse. What a fun day that was.
What a Theo
At least it wasn't Dvorak
My entire office is hotdesk
Mandatory work-from-home once a week. Desk booker used to book your desk up to a month in advance, even with very senior members of staff. One tiny locker to store your posessions in and an otherwise clean-desk policy.
It's a great way of reminding your staff how replacable they are on a daily basis.