Sorry very long but this is also a vent before I im/explode.
I have spent several hours this week being asked to justified why I need to sit at the desk that has been specifically set up for me. (As in for my medical/physical needs) because the guy who started while I was off on sick leave prefers to sit there and can I not be flexible. . .
WHAT THE FUCK, DO FUCK OFF YOU FUCKER!!
Since when does his personal preference trump my physical needs?
The longer one is we hot desk, you book the desk for the days you need a week in advance, there's a website. Before I was off for my operation this desk was out of rotation, you could only book it if I had actively rejected it. Because I was out for several months the desk went back in to rotation, and as my return date took a while to be finalised they didn't take it out of rotation in time. However I block booked it.
Within a day I was approached by a new admin, who this prat had complained to that I was hogging the desk which is seen as poor etiquette.(even though he'd been hogging it for weeks, you can see the history on the website)
Some desks are nicer/better positioned than others so there is the understanding that you only sit at a desk for a week to be fair. 'My' desk is seen as being one of the good ones, by a window (luck) close to meeting rooms/ drinks area and angled in a way that you have more privacy that at most of the other desks. All of this was taken in to consideration when picking a desk for me, I wasn't able to walk far, I needed to apply/adjust TENS patches / ice packs etc without having to go to the bathroom.
So anyway, admin comes says she's been told I'm hogging, starts to explain the process to me, I'm very nice and say I do understand, but there is an Occ Health reason for me sitting there and that my admin is in the process of taking the desk out of rotation. She gets very flustered, say to her she wasn't to know, no worries, don't think any more of it.
Following morning, same admin, all flustered come to me again, tells me she explained to the Prat, that there was a medical reason and the desk was coming out of rotation, he demanded to know what the medical reason was, insisted that she find out.
This is her first job, she knew he was in the wrong but didn't know what to do, fecking bully.
Again, said no problem, told her to email him and say if he had an issue to either speak to me, my line manager, or his line manager.
And if she felt bullied again to speak to her line manager who is wonderful and stands for no shit.
Fecker then mansplains the process to me in full, talking over me as I said I know, I've worked here over 6 years. .
Ends his soliloquy by asking why exactly I need his desk.
I was polite, said you've been told it's a health issue, other than that it is none of your business.
But I need to sit there! So I say well if it's a need rather than a want I suggest you speak to Occ Health.
I don't have time for that, I'm too busy you need to be reasonable.
(Feck off)
My reply was I am being reasonable, it has been explained to you twice that this is an Occ Health issue. I am not spending any more time on this.and turned away.
It doesn't end here.
He then goes to my line manager, spins her a pile of shite, she knowing me doesn't swallow it, but comes to ask my side of the story. I tell it from my POV. She very professionally says nothing, tells me she'll deal with it.
Then yesterday his Line manager approaches me asks what's the story can I not be flexible, I say again it's not a matter of being flex able or reasonable that desk has been adjusted to my medical needs by Occ Health.
Attitude changes instantly, oh I didn't understand that this was an Occ Health desk. Yeap.
So we have space hogging, bullying and mansplanning all together.
Oh and while his line manager may seem like the/a nice guy why did he feel the need to wade in at all?
Why was prats preference more important than mine?