so, I'm starting in a new department next week at work... like a month ago, in preparation for my arrival, our internal IT guys setup a desk for me and gave me second pick of desk locations since my department in my location was being moved and it's only me and one other guy that's going to be there full-time.
in the interim, two weeks ago, a guy who works in our NYC office decided he'd like to work out of jersey a couple days a week. the first thing he did when he arrived in the NJ office was decided that my future desk was going to be his new desk, despite the fact that the other guy who works out of NJ full-time told him it had been setup for me. he took the name plate on the desk and moved it, wiped my extension/voice mail config off the phone, put his on there, and proceeded to make himself at home.
cut to this week, I find out that his wife is having problems and he's going to be working from home full-time for at least the next month... would it be a total dick move to use him working from home as an opportunity to steal my desk back?
to head off any questions... he obviously has department seniority over me, but I've been with the company 2-3 years longer than him. we're in a quad, and two desks (the desk in question + my other coworker's desk) face a wall so that you can actually see the room and not worry about anyone looking over your shoulder (not that I nef a ton at work, but you know... sometimes you've got a minute or two to kill while waiting for a server to reboot or a client to call back).
in the interim, two weeks ago, a guy who works in our NYC office decided he'd like to work out of jersey a couple days a week. the first thing he did when he arrived in the NJ office was decided that my future desk was going to be his new desk, despite the fact that the other guy who works out of NJ full-time told him it had been setup for me. he took the name plate on the desk and moved it, wiped my extension/voice mail config off the phone, put his on there, and proceeded to make himself at home.
cut to this week, I find out that his wife is having problems and he's going to be working from home full-time for at least the next month... would it be a total dick move to use him working from home as an opportunity to steal my desk back?
to head off any questions... he obviously has department seniority over me, but I've been with the company 2-3 years longer than him. we're in a quad, and two desks (the desk in question + my other coworker's desk) face a wall so that you can actually see the room and not worry about anyone looking over your shoulder (not that I nef a ton at work, but you know... sometimes you've got a minute or two to kill while waiting for a server to reboot or a client to call back).
