Maybe in the meantime bring in a wired keyboard and mouse? Maybe ask your manager if that would be acceptable?

I have... difficulty believing that this is an actual functioning office environment and not a script submitted for The Office.

@PhilipKendall "That's what she said!"

From what you have described, you have a manager that doesn't care that one of his staffs productivity is being negatively impacted and you also have a coworker who doesn't care that one of their team's productivity is being negatively impacted. I know that this site frowns on "find another job" answers, but I wonder if that's the answer here

You could also take lunch at the same time as everyone else which only leaves 45 minutes of issue assuming a 12 to 1 lunch hour? I find this post hard to believe

The microwave may not be on the org chart, but you are. Why is your manager not concerned about your ability to do work?

@Esther: No danger of tripping over cables? No danger of accidentally cutting through powered cables if they happen to lie between the blades of scissors that someone happens to close?

@O.R.Mapper Do you often walk atop your desk and indiscriminately use scissors?

@O.R.Mapper then they should use a wireless microwave, cause wired ones violate the security policy.

A remark: the microwave affecting things like those is not fake. I have experienced microwave messing up with my tv controller and other bluetooth devices, also messing up with my wifi connection.... although the rest of the post and the posture of managers and security does seem hard to believe I must admit.

@DarkCygnus, For wifi, upgrading to a 5 Ghz wifi router would solve the issue. Unfortunately, you can't do that for Bluetooth.

I would remove the plug for the microwave and see if the problem disappears.

What aren't you telling us? If the details in this question are accurate, an employee has been banished to the the most remote location, and both boss and colleagues are being unreasonable and using every possible excuse to avoid helping them. Why would they be doing that? What's the back-story here?

I’m voting to close this question because this is obviously not real and we should not feed the trolls.

The people who sincerely can't believe that an employee would be stuck in limbo because both their manager and IT refuse to agree on who needs to do what in order to solve the problem are really, really lucky. (The bit about "I need to make you a stakeholder to let you look over my shoulder" is rather banana crackers though. I'll buy them not wanting to help you but the reasoning is...weird.)

@Esther, It's not the wires that are the problem. It's that most employees can not be trusted not to plug in a usb thumb drive they randomly found in the employee parking lot. And most employees can not be trusted not to plug in a nice keyboard they found in a cardboard box lying around the office reception area with the label "free keyboard" written on the box. And if you work in an investment bank or in a research facility, not allowing most employees access to those ports is completely normal. computerworld.com/article/2510014/…