I suspect shenanigans

[missdiane]

A year and change ago, they started locking the doors at either end of the hallway because there was a rash of thefts on campus. This tends to happen every now and again and instead of people being bright enough to lock their offices or at least their desk with their belongings, their solution is OMG!LOCKDOWN!

They put some stupid doorbells at either end of the hall and then leadership got pissy and told people not to lock the doors during the day. Essentially just secure your shit.

Not related...or maybe is...but have I've mentioned before that the new power-hungry d-bag in charge of the business office, budget office and HR has been gunning to throw our offices out of the building. I've heard he's already succeeded with chucking out one of our departments in the basement. Funnily enough, my name never seems to come up, only Elaine's so I don't know if they just forget I exist or what.

Aaaaaaanyway, today all of a sudden there's some guy outside our suite drilling and making all kinds of commotion and when I was walking out to go home, I asked him what's up. Evidently now they're installing a swipecard system on the doors at either end of the hallway. Hm...I have a suspicion that they'll also change the manual locks and then somehow I'm betting our IDs won't work.

As long as they don't change the manual locks just yet, I think tomorrow will be a smart thing to remove anything that I personally own tomorrow and keep it in my trunk. It will be extra handy if I end up getting that job and will already be packed. If I can't get into the area, I'll go home to work from home and send my useless as shit Director an email letting her know that she might want to handle it.

This fucking place. Ridiculous.

Comments

[spiffikins]

OMG the passive aggressive nonsense you have to put up with there! What a bizarre thing for them to do without mentioning it anywhere?

Or, more likely one of your dimwit managers *was* informed, and didn't see fit to let anyone else know!

[missdiane]

Elaine actually gets meetings with Bosslady, but that's mainly because I think Bosslady has to be more interactive so that grants come into the campus and it would be more obvious if she were slacking. My stuff she's stupid enough to think that I'll just "handle" everything even though she said she wants to be the approver on things.

I'm thinking that the douchebag guy probably is still fighting with Bosslady (along with the head of Extension and everyone else he can piss off) and is likely just taking this next step himself - hell, more aggressive than passive aggressive if we're locked out of our offices and made to leave. The shitty Exec Dean seems to side with this guy and I dearly hope that it's her downfall one day. I've heard that he also succeeded in kicking one of the people that report TO him to another building and will probably just eliminate his job. His a toxic bastard.

[spiffikins]

I mean, it's one thing to advocate for moving people out of your area if you need more space, or even if you're just an asshole and want to claim that those invididuals don't belong in this area. BUT - it does seem like a step too far to just remove access from people who are located in one area, without making arrangements for a new location, and communicating that?


On the up side, if you do end up moving elsewhere - maybe it wouldn't be so bloody hot all the time?

[halfmoon_mollie1]

This all sounds so familiar. You are very wise to either take your personally owned stuff home or at least out to your trunk. Hopefully you will be able to take it to a different place. SOON.

[missdiane]

I don't have room at home at the moment but thankfully the other day, I threw away three fabric grocery bags full of bits and bobs that were just taking up space in my office to get a start. I currently don't have a ton in the office, at least nothing worth lugging into the apartment. So it'll reside in my trunk or back seat until something gets resolved and I'm not a nomad

But yeah, hoping that I'll just be able to move it to an entirely different campus and that they'll all be fucked because no one else has no clue how my job is done and what goes into it nowadays. I'm sure they'll appeal to my former boss that retired nearly a decade ago but they pay her a ridiculous amount of money to hang around part time. But even she won't be able to do everything since systems have changed a LOT since she left. Heh, that might be the incentive for her to say "fuck it" and finally stop hanging around the building like the world's most annoying ghost. She won't want ANY of that responsibility back.

[threecee]

My job used to do useful crap like have the Maintenance Supervisor change the lock codes on the staff doors and then forget that staff needed to be told what the new code was. After several complaints that people couldn't get in to work, and sending the maintenance guy back to fix it, with him still not realizing that only he knew the code, they paid a locksmith to replace the locks. Efficiency!

[missdiane]

How the heck do you forget something like that? Geez these people are dopes

[threecee]

I think the rule is: The higher the pay, the lower the intelligence.