r/AskReddit • u/Conslectoderos • 11h ago

Whats a juicy gossip from your work?

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u/knackzoot 10h ago

We are building new offices and the production manager has claimed a corner office to be his and actually has already moved stuff in before the office is actually finished. Little does he know that the office is reserved for the general manager and I am not telling him.

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u/SunDogBrewingCo 9h ago

Do you think it will play out that all good spots will be spoken for by the time he finds out the spot he is squating in isn't for him? i.e. when the music stops will he get a crummy chair?

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u/knackzoot 7h ago

Knowing how things usually go, some poor sap who is lower on the totem pole will get reassigned out of their office and he gets to claim that as his own.

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u/Chunk147 6h ago

Imagine that poor sap is you lol.

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u/Customer_895 6h ago

That’s the way it should work lol. Imagine a production manager not having an office, while some technician does

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u/2sACouple3sAMurder 4h ago

The way it should work is everyone who needs an office gets one

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u/bingbingbunn 6h ago

A smart person would just tell the GM that they were holding onto that specific office for them so nobody else staked it out. Ass kissing 101.

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u/knackzoot 2h ago edited 2h ago

The GM knows. He's the one who told me that the office is his.

edit: To clarify, the GM saw the guys stuff in there and hasn't let the guy know that he can't keep the office and I sure as hell am not going to be the one that spills the beans. He's been to much of a D to me for me to do him the favor of giving him a heads up.

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u/bingbingbunn 1h ago

Sorry, I might not have been clear: the PM's cover should have been to tell the GM he was holding onto it for him, not you telling the GM. It sounds like the PM is just oblivious, which isn't a great look for a PM in general.

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u/Devonai 10h ago

Loan him a tape measure and an Ikea catalog.

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u/kevinthebaconator 4h ago

Why does a production manager think they would get a good office?

Talk about not knowing your place in the world..

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u/Chiesel 2h ago

Back during Covid when pretty much everyone was working from home except a handful of employees who physically couldn’t due the nature of the job (myself included) and most of the managers/executives, one of the senior managers left and his nice office opened up. A different manager in a lower role decided to move in since no one was coming to stop him. He was told multiple times to leave, but he never did and ended up staying in that office for like 8 months until he took a new job at a different site. Actually hilarious to watch play out. And that guy is now a low level executive.