to feel furious about moving office

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I've just been told before I left work that I have to move out of the office I share at work to a new one and I am furious. I am so angry I am practically in tears.

I have only been at this job since September. I moved all my stuff at a weekend last year. It took a day to unpack. I share with one other very senior person, who I like and whose work interests me so although we don't work on the same projects we often talk. She is horribly messy and unhygienic but she often isn't there. Others at my grade don't have to share but I haven't minded: at least the room itself is big and light and I usually keep to my desk in the corner.

Since I have been in the job they have given me more and more responsibilities to manage and set up courses, so I am always busy but I have said yes because I wanted the team to grow. Since January I regularly have to deal with students' pastoral concerns and so it is good to use the bigger room. I'm also just next door to two more colleagues I work well with.

Then today I got told that someone else wants my desk and I have to move out over the summer. This person is also very senior and often works out of the country so is being asked to give up her individual room. She is not happy and she has decided she wants my space because then she only has to move across the corridor.

My line manager just came in and said I have to move out. He says he is too busy to get involved with people's feelings about this, but he has told his boss that the first place they wanted to put me is no good - its sharing someone who has meetings in her room all the time. He is going to suggest sharing another small room elsewhere in the building with a new, junior member of staff. I get no choice or opportunity to comment.

I am just so cross. I have checked with my current room mate and she says she was told today as well and it wann't her call. I feel that I have taken on all the extra responsibilities they have given me and I am being treated like an office junior. The thought of spending another 2 days packing and moving my stuff literally makes me want to cry. I don't have the time.
I really feel like applying for another job.

AIBU?

Are you still able to fulfil your role at work?

Moving comes in work time surely? And how long does moving a deskful of stuff take/

YANBU. Even if this new arrangement was unavoidable, you have been treated appallingly. Your line manager stating he doesn't have time to deal with your feelings about this is a disgrace. I think this lack of respect they have shown is what is making you so upset, more so than having to move. Please don't do anything rash, have a think over the weekend as quitting might not be the best idea. Good luck x

2 days packing and unpacking? Are they maybe wanting you to move because you gather too much shite clutter stuff?

We move desks and teams regularly. You work where you are told

Yabu

I am happy so long as my screen full of mumsnet work is
Not in plain sight of my boss

how much stuff do you have? It would take me an hour max to put all my stuff together

If others at your grade don't have to share, why can't you just swap with the woman who's taking your desk so you can have her individual room?

It sounds like you are upset at the way they have handled it as much as anything. It's poor management to move people about without discussing it with them first.

I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill...

YABU. You have a job, a wage and an office - and you're complaining about moving offices???
TBH I think somebody needs to shake you.

it's not just the physical stuff (files/books/stationery etc) that takes time when moving office, it's the setting up desks, computers, phone etc that can be time consuming. Yanbu OP.

Ditch the crap! I don't have a desk or an office and it is LIBERATING! Work is what you do, not where you do it after all.

is it the fact that you might have to share with someone who is junior to you..

you do seem a bit obsessed with status and hierarchy

Yabu and yabvu to take 2 days to move offices, do you do it one paperclip at a time?

I guess its a bit shite if you're happy in your space and your boss isn't interested in your feelings about it either. Theres not a whole lot you can do, but its ok to feel disappointed about it.

I've been in nearly every office in our building in the last four years. Suck it up. It's not important.

It's not nice feeling you have no control. Of course where you sit matters to you - even things like what you can see out of the window make a difference to your day. You need to get the best out of this that you can (ie the best space) without showing your feelings at work too much I'm afraid. Especially as your boss sounds like a plonker with no people skills.

I think telling others to suck it up is on of the least supportive things anyone can do on mumsnet. What's with all the, I've done it, so can you, talk?

YABU. It's not been done very sensitively but it's not U to move offices from time to time.

Oh jeez you mean in the same building?? YABU. And precious. I will have to move office next year too. Unfortunately given the likely location of said new office I will be unable to get there for the start of the working day and so will have to leave a job I love. Get over it.

Agree with squeaky. I know how fucking annoying it is when it seems like you've been railroaded into something, but you've been there less than a year. In many work places the longer you're there, the less likely you are to get dicked about.

Basically I'd suck it up, pretend I'm grand with it, but make it clear that I bagsie would like the next room that came up.

We use hot desking at work.

Just be glad you don't have to hot desk. I have to lug all my files and paperwork around with me. My car is full up of stuff as I have nowhere else to put it.