Give A Gal A Bone

Admin Gal feels like a dog with a bone and ten toys, guarding her stash.

I walk a fine line with my resources so that the business needs may be met by the employees in her care while working with the consultants that are in the midst of the company transition.

Frankly I’m exhausted!

Help me do the math.  200 employees, 5 functioning conference rooms, 20-30 meetings on any given day.  Add to this volatile mix, consultants who are doing data transfers who require quiet places to hold hour plus long conference calls at indeterminate times.  The math doesn’t work!

There are no guarantees that I can get the consultants a conference room, so they are in cubes conducting these calls on speakerphone.  Things are tense already.

I’d say give the Admin Gal a bone, but right now I’m guarding my stash and won’t come out of my hole.

So, giving me another bone to guard might not be a great idea when I’m ready to snap.

Resource Management

When offices consolidate, space becomes premium.  Old habits of squatting wherever you want are hard to break.

Admin Gal has been forced into the role of Space Police.  If a conference room has not been booked by the inhabitants, Admin Gal has to play Bad Cop.  This is not fun when the person out ranks you.  Evicting a Director, Vice President, or President is a dicey situation.  But when it is a consultant, Admin Gal has no issue.

Granted their assigned space is limited, but so is the actual working space of the working environment of the company.  Courtesy says you do not just plop yourself down and claim squatter rights.  Where most of the time possession is 9 tenths of the law, when it comes to resource management, not so much.

Admin Gal is happy to try and find space for people.  But don’t act like a toddler if you don’t want to be treated like one.