My Office
When I first started working in USA, I was assigned to a cubic office, that is what they call it, which was referred to as "my area". It was strange for me, since I had always seen people having a room, calling it office. I think I was annoyed a little bit, expecting to have a room of my own.
As I got busier, and visited other firms, I realized that is quite normal for people to have "areas", rather than individual rooms. First, it reduces the leased are, which will mean a less cost to the company. Second, it promotes the newcomers efficiency by not giving them too much privacy!
The second part turned to actually be true in my case. When I moved back to Canada, I first went to Alberta to help our Edmonton office. I was assigned an area over there. When I came back to British Columbia I still had an area. After a while, I was given my own room. At first, I was really happy! I felt like a real engineer.
Now that I am thinking, it is not as good as it looks. Basically, when you are given your own room, it means you are ready to accept more level of responsibility (am I??). In addition, you must act like a professional engineer. It is not as good as it sounds like. That is all I can say...
As I got busier, and visited other firms, I realized that is quite normal for people to have "areas", rather than individual rooms. First, it reduces the leased are, which will mean a less cost to the company. Second, it promotes the newcomers efficiency by not giving them too much privacy!
The second part turned to actually be true in my case. When I moved back to Canada, I first went to Alberta to help our Edmonton office. I was assigned an area over there. When I came back to British Columbia I still had an area. After a while, I was given my own room. At first, I was really happy! I felt like a real engineer.
Now that I am thinking, it is not as good as it looks. Basically, when you are given your own room, it means you are ready to accept more level of responsibility (am I??). In addition, you must act like a professional engineer. It is not as good as it sounds like. That is all I can say...
