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> because in a state of nature 100% of employees use fixed desks. I didn't bother replying to that part of your comment, because it was obvious that we were ta
by jimmywanger 10y ago
> because in a state of nature 100% of employees use fixed desks.
I didn't bother replying to that part of your comment, because it was obvious that we were talking about two different things. There is nothing "natural" about the office seating arrangement. The management wanted to reduce the employees to interchangeable cogs. You don't have personal desks, and any attempt to favor one, to make it "your" desk was quickly noticed and frowned upon.
> If you don't want to be noticed, you need your actions to carry less information, not more.
If everybody else acted the same way as you did, the way that management favored, your actions carry absolutely no information at all except for the fact that you follow management's dictates. If everybody just grabbed the closest desk to the door that was unoccupied, nobody is giving up any information that they didn't already have to give up by following management.
- thaumasiotes 10y ago> If everybody else acted the same way as you did, the way that management favored, your actions carry absolutely no information at all except for the fact that you follow management's dictates. You just specified that the accepted method of sitting reveals who arrived when. Sitting at random wouldn't do that.
- jimmywanger 10y agoAnd would also cause you to lose your job. It was mandated or you were highly pressured to sit in the first empty desk closest to the door. That´s assuming of course that you want to keep the job. If you don´t, do whatever you like. They even had time guidelines on how long it should take you to read memos. And I think you missed my sentence that you weren´t already giving up information that was required by management´s dictates.