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Question

I just got hired to a fianance firm. I've been working here for 1 month. I was placed in a cubicle that had a very large, very noisy printer right next to me that the manager refused to move. However, the manager gave me permission to allow me to move to another cubicle. I just moved my stuff, and I am scared about what others will think and say when they see me (tomorrow morning) in another cubicle. Everyone in the office is going to question me, and ask me why I moved, and look at me weird. What should I tell them? How should I act and feel? All suggestions and Comments are welcome.

Answer 1

they're co-workers. not your friends. you don't have to necessarily explain yourself. but, like the others mentioned, the printer is distracting, and tell them they're welcome to use that cubicle.

either that, or just tell them the voices in your head said to move to the other office, and you'd rather move instead of go postal on them. see if they agree.

Answer 2

Just tell them the printer is too loud. Theres nothing wrong with that reason. Moving cubicles is nothing weird or out of the ordinary. Act natural. Changes are made for the better.

Answer 3

First off, you shouldn't worry so much about the others in the office. They have their jobs to do also.
Telling the truth always is the best policy. Even a small white lie in the field of employment that you are in could cost you more than you want to give up.
If they look at you wierd, tell them to give it a shot, walk a mile in my shoes I always say, then you can tell me how nuts I am...
Act normal and feel great, you now have the area in which to concentrate and do your best work for the firm.
Have a great day tomorrow...you will do fine, smile, frown, smile, frown. If you do the smile and frown a couple of times before long you will be smiling and feeling great, try it.....
You did the right thing, you have the right to feel great about your decision to move.

Answer 4

What there to be scared about... just tell your colleague that you can't concerate working with the noisy printer next to you and have the manager permission to move to another cubicle... and of course they will understand...

Answer 5

If they say anything, I would just tell them that it was hard to concentrat on my work with all of that noise going on right beside me, so I decided to move somewhere that I COULD concentrate. After all, you want to make sure that you don't have a lot of distraction, so that you can focus on doing great work! If anyone has anything snide to say about it, I would simply say " Well, if the noise doesn't bother you, maybe you could offer to move over to that cubicle so that those of us that ARE bothered by it can have a little more quiet so that we can focus on our jobs- after all, if it shouldn't bother me, then it won't bother you, right?"

Answer 6

I would say that the printer was distracting you from your job and that it was in your best interest (and the best interest of those who your job affects) to change to a less noisy and more efficiency-friendly cubicle.

Answer 7

Hopefully, they won't ask. What would be wrong with saying that you asked to be moved because the printer was so noisy it was distracting you? If the manager told you not to tell why, then what can you do but say, "You'll have to ask your supervisor".

Answer 8

All this drama over moving to a quieter cubicle ?
Chill out already . . . what's next, the switch from a pencil to a pen ? Oh, horrors !

Answer 9

I sit down good next to a printer additionally. that's stressful. i does not issue approximately what they think of. only tell them that the noise from the printer grew to become into distracting. i in my opinion do not think of that they are going to be that for the time of touch approximately it.

Answer 10

Don't worry about, just simply explain why and don't worry about people watching you. Act and feel as if all is normal, just go about doing your work.