I haven’t been in the office since last Tuesday…but “I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.”

I’ve spent several glorious days with my baby boy, breathing in the cool air and soaking up the warm sun and not surprisingly I’m hardly looking forward to life back under the fluorescents.

While I was gone last week most of my team moved to a new area of the building - just down the hall on the same floor. Working for a large corporation means intermittent cube shuffling among other annoyances. When I return to my desk in an hour it will still be in the state of disarray it was when I abandoned it, my flair packed into two large tubs sitting directly behind my chair with the real work files yet to be packed. Me? I’ll move this Friday morning.

My new digs are directly outside the one major conference room on campus cleverly titled “the Multi-Purpose”. It can house 70 people semi-comfortably and those people tend to be very, very loud in addition to being confused by where the room is despite the fact that it’s just around the corner from the bank of elevators that deliver them to my world.

Sure, I’ll have a wall that slides shut to block some of the chatter, but I’ll also be creating two signs similar to these, just in case:

No, I’m not kidding. Management has been put on notice.