to not give up my good desk as I'm part time

[pbromum2]

I have one of the better desks in the office as I sit near a window and have plenty of space around me.

I'm 3 days a week, but some of the 5 days have hinted that I should give up this great desk.

Aibu to just ignore them?

I had no idea people were so petty. Before this move I had a shit desk for over a year and I Just got on with it.
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This!

People seem petty tho '... When its not you on the shitty desks. Those with no idea re good/bad desks - perhaps you haven't worked in NHS?

To date,

I have almost exploded trying to do complicated stats in a room with no natural light and crap artificial light.

I had a desk in a tiny room, that actually had been a disabled loo, complete with loo and sanitary bin in the corner.

My senior colleague had a desk that had been the security guards rest room... Who naturally didnt know it had been re allocated and wanted to eat their sandwiches... whilst colleague was seeing patients...

I was in an office where any time someone needed to access any filing cabinet I had to duck or risk brain injury...

One colleague arrived to find builder s with a wrecking ball knocking his office down... He was the last staff member there. Pity no one said...

PS indeed there are good and bad desks... Some of the nicest are for the admin people. These over look the sea in the distance and garden in the foreground.

Th is is frequently empty as so many work part time
.... Are we envious? Hell yes!

My example wasn't about what happened when colleague was on mat leave, rather the care taken to avoid upsetting her when she came back PT. While it was fine for FT me to hotdesk with all my papers kept in a cardboard box, then get a tiny desk.

Which did demonstrate that being a stroppy nightmare can get you your own way as people don't have the energy to deal with you. So the reasonable ones lose out - on the little things anyway. Which is not a comparison but an example.

If the stroppy nightmares here are some of the full-timers, then prepare to form an alliance with someone who will use your desk the other two days, get determined and if necessary, get a bit bolshy. But don't waste too much energy on it.

Yes I know it makes q big difference to some, although I wouldn't want to face another summer with no fresh air and looking at a wall all day.

I would be really pissed off if I were a full-timer and was there five days a week with no fresh air and looking at a wall all day.

OP, you haven't answered the question about seniority. Have you been there longer than the others?

Let them hint. Ignore. If they feel very strongly they will approach management and then they will take a view. If they tell you to move, do so with good grace. But it might never happen.

I work from home, but our office has a hot desk system. I usually have to ask someone to reserve me a desk for the days I am in the office as there simply are not enough for everyone. Personally I think there should be a booking system as the whole point of my being in is to engage with my team. If I have to sit elsewhere I might as well have stayed at home and saved myself the train fare!

And the FTers all sit in the same place every day!

Ignore them and keep your nice desk, it's not your problem if they don't like their desks. I had to move desks last week and was reasonable and said I'd sit anywhere to make things easier for the facilities team-wish I hadn't now as I'm crammed into a tiny space with 3 others, nowhere near a window and aircon doesn't work.