Out of the Restaurant mix.............?
So, I am moving up to the 6th floor in 3 weeks, where I will be granted an office of my own. This is quite exciting. I have a door and 2 windows. I have always wanted this, and now I guess my wish is granted.
However, I am learning to love the Restaurant industry in which I work. By moving my dept upstairs, it is going to feel just like any other office? We will be isolated from the rest of the office on the 5 floor. We will no longer be a part of the atmosphere of downstairs. Even though we are the headquarters for our restaurants, and not an actual Restuarant, there is till the Restaurant buzz going on all the time. There is always talk about Chefs, Sous Chefs, GM's, service, new menu items etc. There is always flatware and food samples laying around given to us by vendors, always talk about the new restaurant that is opening, which fish dish works and dosn't work, what our favorite deserts are etc. Menu's come in daily , promotional boards of upcoming events are always in the mail room. Sometimes our regional Chef puts on his crisp white Chef's jacket and films a commerical in our board room. I love those Chef's jackets!
It is an office with personality. A restaurant industry personality.
I feel amungst the "people" now, and I am afraid moving upstairs where it is just HR and Payroll, that atmosphere is going to change. Will we still talk about banana cream pie and parmasean crusted sole? will the Chef's pop up to say Hi when they come through? I'm not sure.
So,I'm thinking my new space comes at a price. I'm also guessing I will have to put up a bigger picture of Bobby Flay and Anthony Bourdain in my new office.
jb
2 Comments:
It has been too long since I've left a comment. So here I am trying to leave a comment, however I'm finding that your move to sixth floor isn't compeling me to think to much. Which is quite a bit like my own blog.
I've been in the same cube space for quite some time now. It's OK. It's better than the last one I had in which I shared my cube with a huge iron support column. I wouldn't mind moving cubes again, though the view really never changes.
too not to. I hate when I find an error after I've posted.
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