To think sod it and do this in work tomorrow

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I’m a head of department. As a team we have been talking for months about wanting to rearrange our office room (only my team use this room, it’s not a shared room with another department) but never get a day where we have time to do it. I run an in-house PR team. WIBU to just put the phones on do not disturb tomorrow and then me and team can finally rearrange the room? We have our work emails on our phones so we would see any urgent enquiries on our emails on our phones. Rearranging the room will involve moving all the tables and unplugging and moving the computers too probably. The only way I’ll ever get time to do it is if I make the time like this, we’ll never get a day quiet enough to do it I don’t think as we have been trying for months

Everyone on our work WhatsApp group is happy to rearrange the room tomorrow, fingers crossed IT agree, if not I’ll try and get it done before the end of the week fingers crossed

Oh no, hope our IT team don’t get like this, fingers crossed they’re not too busy

I think it sounds a bit haphazard and last minute. Also a big waste of time actually moving desks round to see if they like it. Can't they try it on paper etc and then let IT know what the final design is?

The only thing is if my manager did this to me tomorrow it would properly fuck my week up as I have planned what I need to do - can you not give them any notice? It is not much fun to be jerked about by the boss in this way.

Sorry - just saw you have discussed it - in which case hopefully it goes well.

We’ve done a few drawings before (about 4 months ago when the idea of rearranging the room first came up) and got down to 3 designs but they can’t decide which one they like best without seeing the desks in those places (everything wouldn’t need to be plugged in etc at that stage, just the desks moving) and they can’t decide who would sit where without seeing it apparently.

Chaos. I wouldn't like it. I'd rather plan it for another day, preferably Friday, out for drinks after!

There's no way IT in my company would be free just like that to come and camp in our room for the morning.
If you've told your staff already it sounds like youve made the decision, not sure why you're asking us.

I think in that case, plan it with IT and set a date. Maybe have AM it to remove things and team trialling and then pm get it back to sort it permanently. I can't see our IT being thrilled at no notice esp if they had plans for downtime/updates/audits etc

If IT decline in the morning then I’ll get a date arranged with them for later this week or early next week

I like this idea now but have already put it on my teams WhatsApp about tomorrow

We managed to rearrange the room 🥳