So as part of my job, I am suppose to help organize the office space. In the area that my desk is in, there are 3 other desks along with a large snooker table. It takes up the majority of the room so much so that it cannot be used for play as there is not enough room to use a regular sized cue. Also, under the table is full of boxes and random junk so it's used as a bit of a storage area...afterall, empty space is useless space so fill it up!
I sent an email to B1 and B2 recommending that the table be moved to their warehouse building since it is never used and to buy a meeting table as we don't have any meeting space to have staff or client meetings. Currently, when we have a big meeting we get out the folding plastic 6' table and the folding metal chairs and set them up in a work area.
B1 read the email and came storming over to my desk. How dare I suggest that the pool table needs to be moved! We already have a board room and don't need to create another meeting space!
I asked where this board room was. B1 said it was on the way to his back apartment and that it is where B2 sleeps/lives. YES you have read correctly B1 and B2 both live physically at the office!!! I pointed out that if B2 was living there than it was not available for meetings and it was like he didn't have a boardroom. He argued again - yes he has a boardroom and he does not need to get rid of the pool table! B1 also said that nothing in this office would ever happen without his permission so I should stop my plans of trying to organize things.
ps the pool table and i had a bit of a run in since the path to my desk was very narrow in which the table hip checked me leaving a substantial bruise. B1 and I got into a bit of war pushing the pool table to allow for a reasonably wide path to get to the desk area which I eventually won...ever so often the pool table hip checks me to remind me that it won the war of meeting area vs. too small to play pool but big enough to keep the table area.
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