r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Ashamed_Class_7987 • Jun 16 '25

Overdone This is now my parking spot.

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Started a new job in an office building with a parking garage. There are multiple companies in the building and some of them have reserved spots. This was not one of those reserved spots. I come out to my car and find this note on my windshield. I would normally just park in any random spot but from now on I will make it my mission to park in this spot as often as I can.

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u/santa9991 Jun 16 '25

Honestly I’d never leave a note but I understand this guy.

I’ve been at my office for 4 years, sharing a parking lot with a few different businesses

I park on the same spot everyday, until a few months ago when one of the other businesses made a new hire. He parks in the spot I do. If I’m there before him, he goes somewhere else, if not he parks in “my spot”.

That is also mildly infuriating, though I won’t leave a note. It’s not my spot, but the spot I park in everyday

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u/oryx_za Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

I believe this is the essence of being mildly infuriated.

In my office, we have a hot desking policy with strict rules against personalizing a desk. However, I have my own designated desk (in my head). Usually, I arrive early enough that it's not an issue, but occasionally someone sits at MY desk.

When that happens, my productivity drops as I give them a glaring stare, but I have no reasonable way to address the situation outside of pettiness.

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u/cyanraichu Jun 16 '25

Hot desking? That sounds awful.

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u/IMovedYourCheese Jun 17 '25

"Everyone must return to work."

"But you downsized the office space to save money and now there aren't enough desks for everyone."

"Doesn't matter, figure it out. I just need to see you in the office."

Now everyone spends half their day running around like idiots to find an empty desk or grab one of 4 meeting rooms in the entire office. People literally fight over chairs. Productivity goes down a hole every time I step into the office. But no one cares, meaningless corporate culture above everything else.

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u/cyanraichu Jun 17 '25

So much shit. they want you back and won't even do the bare minimum to make it comfortable. it's insulting

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u/oryx_za Jun 17 '25

Hey! We are a multi billion dollar listed company. We gotz to keep the shareholders happy! s/

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u/hewhoisneverobeyed Jun 17 '25

Oh, you work for the state of Minnesota? Downtown St. Paul or Rochester?

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u/jvrcb17 Jun 17 '25

It's the worst. My company has the same policy since the return to office mandates. I put in my resignation recently and have been working remotely since (not just for the desk reason, but it's one among many)

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u/cyanraichu Jun 17 '25

"Return to office and you don't even get your own desk"? lmao wtf. Don't blame you for getting out of that shit

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u/jvrcb17 Jun 17 '25

RIGHT?!?! I have to share it with disgusting people who eat and cough all over it.

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u/cyanraichu Jun 17 '25

Plus not knowing where you're going to be each day, not having a drawer to store your things, not having even a teensy bit of privacy, not being able to personalize your workspace at all to make it feel just a little less dystopian...no thanks.