Oh good grief…they’re going to change where I sit at work, sort of. But instead of being a nice easy move from one cube to another, I am going to sit in my current space three days a week and the new space two days a week, so I don’t really have anywhere to call home.

See, two of my clients are in the area where I sit, and two are in another area several floors away. The two who are in my area can call on me anytime they need to chat with a co-worker; the other two have to schedule me in advance or send an e-mail and hope I’m at my desk to rush down and meet them. Now, it’s perfectly clear that the two downstairs deserve their own interpreter they can call on at any time. It’s also true that these people all work for the same department, and it would be nice if everybody could sit in the same area.

And they were going to put us all in the same area, but the people who would have had to move to make that possible…decided they don’t want to after all. The government can’t afford to hire a separate interpreter to sit with the two downstairs full-time, so they are going to have me split between upstairs and downstairs. They say I will at least get a cube downstairs, so at least I will have a place to sit that isn’t in an aisle or in somebody else’s cube. But who knows if I will have a computer or phone, so it will be difficult for the two upstairs guys to reach me if they need to last-minute, etc.

I agree that this is an appropriate solution since the government can’t hire another interpreter…but I think it’s going to be a big logistical hassle for many people, especially me. So I’m not looking forward to it.