I work in an office. I'm in a new hire set of 4 cubicles that they put near the kitchen. The other 3 cubes are empty, no one sits near me. The IT setup is that we use a desktop computer with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. When someone uses the microwave in the kitchen, my keyboard and mouse lose...
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
@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 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.
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?
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/…
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