Musical cubes
When I first started working at Brocade, we were in Con-6, and I was on the eighth floor. This posed a slight problem for me since I was the only one in my group who wasn’t on the seventh floor. So eventually I was moved down to the seventh floor and given a cube with a really great view.
After we bought Rhapsody, engineering was slowly migrated over to Skyport-3, where we all currently are. Originally I was on the second floor with the rest of my group, but then something weird happened. I changed groups at the same time that my old group moved up to the sixth floor. I moved up to the sixth floor, but my new group was on the fifth floor, so a few weeks later, I also moved down to the fifth floor.
A month or so ago, there was yet another reorg, and my old group and my new group merged. This past Friday, the people who had been on the fifth floor moved up to the sixth floor. This means that I’ve moved cubes five times in less than four years. The awful part is that when I was on the second and fifth floors, I was right next to the printer, and now that I’m on the sixth floor again, I’m right next to the printer yet again.
One of the cubes on the sixth floor has freed up, and I want it. The problem is, it’s a window cube, and so everyone wants it. My boss has said that it’s usually distributed based on tenure and rank, which means I’m likely not to get it, which really pisses me off, since I’ve had a really awful cube for a long time.
One other thing that really pisses me off is that the soda machine on the sixth floor charges $0.60 instead of $0.50 like the fifth floor machine, and also the sixth floor machine only has Coke products, whereas the fifth floor had a healthy mix of Coke and Pepsi products, and I’m a Pepsi drinker. So I’m thinking about getting a cube mini-fridge. My space requirements are max 23″Hx19″Wx19″D and preferably less than 17″W and 15″D, so I’m thinking about getting this fridge from ThinkGeek. Any reviews on it? Any other ones that anyone would suggest?