At work, I was finally relocated to my new cubicle home.  This has been an affair lasting for months, with multiple false "Move Now!" alarms, and plans being revised from day to day.  As a result, the people in charge of laying out the cubes have been on our floor almost non-stop for the past two weeks, and they keep sticking their noses into our cubes, asking if everything if okay or not.

Our work uses these plastic name plates, and they have special holders on the cubicle walls.  When I got to my new cube, I had inherited an ancient tag holder that didn't sit on the top of the cube like everyone elses does.  It attaches on the side.  The problem with this is that, were I to attach my name plate there, it would stick out into the entry way, as the holder could only handle the name plate at one angle.  I'm sure *normal* people could learn to navigate around the name plate (and in fact, I do believe that's what the previous tenant did), but I know myself too well.  I'd end up smacking into just about every day, and having a ton of bruises to show for it. 

So, instead of attaching my plate normally, I attached it perpendicularly.  It looked fine, and I was happy with it.  In our office, half of the people have ditched the plates in favor of much more creative name tags anyway, so it certainly didn't look out of place.  Or at least that's what *I* thought.  The facilities people fixated on it.  It drove them insane.  They must have come by and examined it about 4 times between yesterday and today.  Can I get my drawer installed under my desk?  No.  But they would not rest until my name was displayed horizontally.  Finally, this afternoon, they either found a new holder, or figured out a solution, so now my name is horizontal, positioned to the side of my door.  And thus, the facilities people are happy and satisfied, and are now leaving me alone.

Did I mention they still haven't installed my desk drawer?!