A bit long so as not to drip feed..I work in a smallish open plan office - 20 or so desks across 2 rooms. Today was last day at work for a colleague and another is getting married over the weekend.
We had two separate presentations to the two staff involved which took a bit of time out of the working day. Some (not all) of the staff are going to a night out leaving straight from work for the one who is leaving.
My team and I have been really busy all week with deadlines to meet (financial year end). My line manager and I are in the office tomorrow when everyone else is off on public holiday as we still have work to complete for year end.
A couple of the staff who work flexibly knocked off at 4pm today. They normally work in a different part of the office from me and are not in my team. These particular colleagues are going on the work night out. At 4pm they moved themselves into the front office (where I work) and started dishing out alcohol. They started drinking and gabbing away as if they were already in the pub (having also spent time at their desks earlier getting glammed up during core hours). One of them parked herself at the desk next to me and was drinking and gabbing to her mate. They started distracting my team and others who I am not responsible for and drawing them into their chat.
After 15 minutes the noise levels were going up and up and I was finding it hard to concentrate. Then I asked them to keep the noise levels down, saying that I have a lot to do tomorrow in the office and would have even more to do if I could not concentrate to get today's tasks finished. My line manager was in a meeting elsewhere and there was no-one to back me up. The party animals stopped for a few seconds then started up again as bad as ever. AIBU to expect the office environment not to be treated like a pub when staff are clearly still working? I was made to feel like a party pooper..
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To expect staff to not drink alcohol and party in open plan office when others are still working
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calidadsuprema · 28/03/2013 18:16
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