Desk Swap
I recently moved desks at work, which has had some unual implications.
Take my first day back on Monday when I found a post it note on my desk.
“Andrew” it said. “Have ordered new PC for you. Jim”.
Cool thinks I. A new PC. Well my old one is getting very sluggish and keeps running out of RAM so that’s nice. Not quite sure why a new PC has been randomly ordered, but complain not will I.
Only it’s not actually for me - it’s for Andrew who sits behind me, and who was using my PC last week whilst I was off.
You might think that with two Andrew’s sat very closely, there’s scope for confusion. Just take those moments when someone calls out “Andrew” to get someones attention for example. Well now consider that sat in front of me is Andrew. Yep, there’s three of us in a row… If we could just get one of the designers to move desks, and keep another developer where he is, then we could end up with five of us all sat neatly in a row.
Of course, we’re all Andrews, not Andys, so we can’t even cut down the confusion. (Indeed I’ve never been an Andy except to a few people who I worked with in the college bar at university - for reasons I never quite understood).
Then there’s the mysterious noise. It sounds like a football crowd cheering quietly. For days I thought it was someones screensaver, as it only seems to happen when no one else is around. But I finally worked it out. It’s the door to the toilets. It creaks in a really wierd way, and the accoustics of the room seem to manipulate it in a strange way…
Still, now I get a far superior view of the White City estate from my desk, and I think we can all agree - that’s one true result.
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