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Originally Posted by troutnut1
I was lucky. Just about the time I could no longer stomach being in a cubicle, my agency decided we needed laptops and wifi so we could work in the field when needed. I was ready to quit/retire anyway so one day I decided to make a hostile takeover of a relatively unused conference room. 12X18. Corner office. Window. Locking door. Giant table and chairs. I rewired my desk phone to ring in there, grabbed my laptop and mouse, and camped out in there for the day when I could no longer stand the women in adjacent cubies. And a funny thing happened....which was nothing! Nobody said a word. So I did it again the next day. When it came time for the weekly meeting the boss asked me if it they could disturb me. I said sure! Then I went right back to working. 7 years later at a training session one of the newer ladies scowled at me and said “I’d like a private office too!”. I said “well, you have to work here more than 5 minutes or so to get one” (I had 19 years in the job by then). Knowing what I know now, I should have made that move a decade sooner. But it got me 7 additional years in the company before I finally retired last December.
Yes, you are lucky. They could have sent you down to the basement where you could work alone, like they did Milton.
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