RE: The Bunny Hopped Out of Here.

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

When I got back from a training day and found 
that that had happened to me, I restrained myself 
from storming into the newbie's cubicle and 
demanding my "property" back. I arranged to be 
present when the manager visited the newbie's 
cubicle. I said: "Something fell down behind 
your monitor."
Newbie stood up to look.
I slid chair back, flipped it over and silently 
pointed to the P-Touch label with my name on it.
As the newbie stumbled back -- not finding a 
chair under his butt -- I fixed him with my 
best withering glare, then turned to the manager 
and asked (through only slightly gritted teeth): 
"He won't ever again touch my stuff without 
 my EXPRESSED permission, will he?"

Newbie harrumphed unconvincingly and backpedalled.
Manager suppressed grin, and frowned disapprovingly 
at newbie. Newbie did not last past probation 
period.

Moral 1: don't just document your procedures... 
         document your STUFF, too.   :-)

Moral 2: don't just pick your battles... TIME 
         your battles carefully.

Moral 3: righteous indignation is best played 
         calmly and quietly -- with just a slight 
         edge -- and with a "more in sorrow than 
         in anger" nuance.

Moral 4: if you don't want to go through that kind 
         of thing, then to hell with the clean-desk 
         policy... make your cube/office look lived-in  :-)

/kevin

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marilynne Smith [mailto:marilyns -at- qualcomm -dot- com]
>
>>Not bad, just human.  When a former contract I had was 
>abruptly stopped in
>>the middle (about 25 people were laid off), another employee took my
>>ergonomic chair as I was packing to leave.
>
>A variation of that happened to me.  We had a new employee who 
>felt very 
>important.  When he needed a chair, he just took mine - a new 
>ergonometric one.
>
>Marilynne

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