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HR: good news! We're going to be moving your whole floor to a **newly renovated floor** in our main building.

Me (thinking): sounds good! It'll be all new and I'll be reintegrated with the main population, see young ppl (girls) finally.

HR: there will be no assigned seating though. Do you think you will have any problems finding a seat since your deaf?

Me: Hm.... should be fine... (Thinking: so no nobody will care if I work from home or not...yes!)

HR: Actually they said they can give you a fixed seat!

Me: wow thanks!

(Wait... Fuck... Did they actually review my low physical attendance rate so now if I become the only guy with a fixed seat on the floor, I will have to show up more instead of working remotely whenever I want (the rest of my team are in different countries)... I will literally be the center of attention...)

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  • 8
    Ok. Wow. Does being deaf have anyyyything to do with finding a seat? I don't think so.
    I mean it would have made some sense if you were visually impaired.
    That HR guy is crazy.
  • 6
    @ceee well I did imagine I may be going "is this seat taken?" And then not realizing the guy says "no" so get into an awkward situation when I sit down anyway.

    The issue is what happens if I don't show up 50+% of the time. My team doesn't care since they can't see me anyway but now I'm imagining people going "why's there an empty seat there?" And there's probably going to be a sign that says "This seat is reserved" so people would be thinking "why does he get a reserved seat when he doesn't even show up most of the time..."
  • 3
    @billgates that'll suck. 😅
  • 2
    Ouch. That ain't good.
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